The stadium can host football and soccer games, track and field meets, as well as many varied festivals and special events, including the annual Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games, Special Olympics and Bed Races, an annual UTA tradition in the fall.

The first level is an outdoor film deck while the top two contain space for radio and television broadcasts, print media, coach booths and suites.

Fans primarily enter Maverick Stadium from the south, where a seven-window ticket booth faces out onto a 677-space parking lot.

After the 1969 season, UTA left Memorial Stadium, though local high school teams would still play there for several more years.

One notable example was when the Rangers exercised a clause giving them control over the stadium 24 hours before and after home games.

Finally, after renovations were announced that the now-renamed Arlington Stadium would become a permanent baseball facility, the UTA football team eventually moved their home games to Cravens Field from 1977 to 1979.

The UTA Athletic Department knew that Turnpike Stadium and Cravens Field weren't long-term homes.

Preliminary approval for Maverick Stadium was issued by the UT System Board of Regents in November 1977.

After bids were approved later that year, construction began early in 1979 on the site of the football practice fields on the west side of campus.

[citation needed] After more than a decade, the first on-campus football game was played as the University of North Texas opened the venue in front of a record crowd of 18,033, an eventual 31–14 loss for UTA.

It was also their last year participating at the NCAA's highest level of football, then known as Division I-A, as the NCAA would reclassify UTA and almost the entire Southland Conference as Division I-AA The last home game in Maverick Stadium for UTA's football program was against Louisiana Tech on November 16, 1985 (1985-11-16).

The men have won 11 team conference championships and five runners-up finishes since the stadium opened, along with 23 event All-Americans.

[8] The university constructed clubhouses at Clay Gould Ballpark for the baseball team and Allan Saxe Field for the softball squad in 2015, so they no longer use Maverick Stadium's facilities and offices.

[9] This leaves the university's track and field teams as the only full-time tenants in Maverick Stadium's locker rooms.

[10] In fall 2015, the university added a putting green for the UTA golf team in the northwest corner of Maverick Stadium.

2,000 of the 9,000-square-foot facility was devoted to the golf programs, that include lounge and meeting space, a swing analysis system, a hitting area, an indoor putting green, coaches’ offices and outdoor training areas, which include a chipping green and hitting range.