The complex currently houses the Ergotelis Youth Academy, the largest youth sports academy on the island of Crete, and one of the largest in Greece,[4] while the stadium itself is still used as the home ground of multiple Heraklion football clubs playing in the Heraklion Football Clubs Association amateur league system.

The stadium is located on the fortifications of Heraklion, atop the Martinengo bastion, in close proximity to Nikos Kazantzakis' grave.

[6] The club is therefore forced to rent out and play its home games in the city's larger and more modern Pankritio Stadium.

[6] In 2017, the Gymnastics Club Ergotelis board of directors named the stadium after Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis, whose grave is located on the top of the Martinengo bastion.

Having been the home ground of Ergotelis for almost 60 years (1946−2004), the stadium is most vividly linked to a controversial concert held by left-liberal songwriter and composer Mikis Theodorakis (a key voice against the 1967–1974 right-wing government) on 6 August 1966, which to this day many hold as the foremost reason for Ergotelis' shut-down by the Greek military junta in 1967, and the club's eventual decline in lower regional and national competitions for a period lasting almost 30 years.