Following the Games, it was rebuilt for multi-purpose use and now serves primarily as the home of Premier League club West Ham United, who played at the Boleyn Ground before moving to the stadium in 2016.

The stadium can also hold concerts with up to 80,000 spectators and, due to its oval shape and relocatable seating, was deemed to have the potential to host other sports such as baseball and cricket.

[13] The government preferred to produce a brief for an athletics-only stadium that would be largely disassembled after the games, with the lower tier remaining in place as a permanent athletics facility to replace the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

In addition to the minimal use of steel, which makes it 75 per cent lighter, the stadium also uses high-yield large diameter pipes that were surplus on completion of North Sea gas pipeline projects in its compression truss, recycled granite, and many of the building products were transported using trains and barges rather than by lorry.

The final design for the wrap consisted of 2.5-metre-wide (8 ft 2 in) fabric panels, twisted at 90-degree angles to allow entry to the stadium at the bottom of the structure, and held in place with tensioned cables.

[27] Reaching 70 metres (230 ft) above the field of play, its roof held 14 lighting towers that collectively contained a total of 532 individual 2 kW floodlight lamps.

Individual "paddles" containing nine LED pixels each were installed between each seat, which were controlled via a central system to display video content wrapped around the stadium.

[citation needed] It was reseeded with a Desso GrassMaster artificial-natural hybrid pitch approved for Premier league matches of 105 by 68 metres (115 by 74 yd), ready for West Ham United, complete with under-soil heating.

[citation needed] Initially, the stadium design received a mixed response from the media, with reviews ranging from "magnificent" to the derisory "bowl of blancmange".

[25] To make room for its construction, the already partially obstructed Pudding Mill River, a short channel of the Lea that ran from the west side of the stadium south-eastwards across the site, was filled in.

[46] Following the granting, in March 2013, of a 99-year tenancy to West Ham United, the E20 LLP, a joint organisation by the London Legacy Development Corporation and Newham Council were specifically set-up to oversee the redevelopment of the stadium into a UEFA Category 4 venue seating 66,000 spectators.

[55] It was revealed neither West Ham United nor the taxpayer would have to meet the additional cost as Balfour Beatty would contribute with the remainder funded from the existing LLDC transformation budget of the Olympic Park.

[67] In February 2020, West Ham announced planned alterations to the stadium introducing two new lower-tier stands moving supporters closer to the pitch, many by more than four metres (13 feet).

Five thousand participants (including celebrities, British athletes and members of the public who won a lottery draw) took part in a 5-mile (8 km) run around Olympic Park.

[82] During the Athletics events of the Olympic Games, David Rudisha broke his own world record for the 800 metres to become the first man to run the distance in under 1 minute 41 seconds.

[91] Over the course of the Paralympic Games athletics events, world records were set on the track by; Oxana Boturchuk[92] Martina Caironi,[93] Chen Junfei,[94] El Amin Chentouf,[95] China,[96] Libby Clegg,[92] Arnu Fourie,[97] Marie-Amelie le Fur,[94] Terezinha Guilhermina,[93] Mahmoud Khaldi,[94] Samwel Mushai Kimani,[95] Walid Ktila.

[98] Liang Yongbin,[96] Rosemary Little,[99] Liu Ping,[100] Liu Wenjun,[96] Gunther Matzinger,[96] Michael McKillop,[97] Mateusz Michalski,[96] Yohansson Nascimento,[101] Oscar Pistorius,[97] David Prince,[96] Evgenii Shvetcov,[98] South Africa,[93] Leo Pekka Tahti,[92] Abraham Tarbei,[98] Iurii Tsaruk,[94] Richard Whitehead,[92] Abderrahim Zhiou,[98] Zhu Daqing, and Zhou Guohua.

[94][96][97][103][105] In the field events, world records were set by Hani Alnakhli,[100] Alexey Ashapatov,[104] Aigars Apinis[106] Lahouari Bahlaz,[100] Mohamed Berrahal,[106] Kelly Cartwright,[107] Yanlong Fu,[108] Leonardo Diaz,[105] Zeljko Dimitrijevic,[99] Tanja Dragic,[107] Najat El Garraa,[104] Javad Hardani,[100] Todd Hodgetts,[100] Jun Wang,[107] Maroua Ibrahmi,[92] Juan Yao,[109] Mohsen Kaedi,[97] Mohammad Khalvandi,[96] Gocha Khugaev,[93] Karolina Kucharczyk,[95] Assunta Legnante,[105] Maciej Lepiato,[96] Liu Fuliang,[97] Drazenko Mitrovic,[105] Azeddine Nouiri,[98] Katarzyna Piekart,[97] Mariia Pomazan,[107] Nikita Prokhorov,[94] Qing Wu,[107] Markus Rehm,[104] Raoua Tlili,[96] Wang Yanzhang,[100] Zhu Pengkai,[93] and Oksana Zubkovska.

[130] On 11 February 2011, the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) unanimously selected West Ham United and Newham Council as the preferred bidders to take over the stadium after the 2012 Games.

[131] But Leyton Orient, a lower league team who are geographically the nearest professional football club to the London Stadium, complained that as it was so close to their own ground, West Ham's occupancy of it would breach F.A.

[137] On 23 August, the day before Tottenham Hotspur were due in court, they staged "intense negotiations" with the office of the Mayor of London, and looked set to drop all claims for a review and be offered funding for their own stadium.

[149] Daniel Moylan, chairman of the LLDC, was removed by Mayor Boris Johnson on 12 September 2012, after having made changes to the leadership of the organisation that annoyed some Board members.

[176] On 14 April 2016, it was revealed that West Ham will pay £2.5 million per year during a 99-year lease of the stadium but will not have to fund police, stewarding, heating, pitch maintenance, or corner flags.

[177] In September 2018, Lyn Garner, chief executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation, revealed that the £2.5m paid per year by West Ham did not even cover the cost of staging matches leading to increased debts in running the stadium for the 97-year remainder of their tenancy agreement.

[186] In January 2019, the London Legacy Development Corporation bought LS185 from Vinci and kept all the existing staff in place after concerns were raised in regards to costs at the venue, as it turned in a £3.5 million loss the previous year.

[233] On 26 August, during a Europa League game against FC Astra Giurgiu, fighting broke out in the stadium with a supporter being arrested on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm.

[248] Measures including increased security presence and preventing fans from approaching the area holding members of the West Ham board were announced in late March.

As LS185 were in control of the stadium's operations and were blamed for their actions in the disturbances (including cutting the number of stewards, poor training and unsatisfactory response to pitch invasions), West Ham sought to split the fine with the company.

In addition, Hackney Wick (London Overground) and Pudding Mill Lane (DLR) serve the stadium but may be closed during larger events due to capacity limitations.

[284] National Express coach services to Stratford bus station provide a direct connection to Stansted Airport[286] and several other routes to Essex and East Anglia.