North Hobart Oval started its existence as Hobart Town's brickfields in 1844 before becoming a convict women's housing site, an immigration depot and an invalid persons' depot before closing in 1882 whereby the land became a rubbish dump until it was acquired for construction of a football stadium in 1921.

The Tasmanian Devils VFL side also played its Southern home fixtures at North Hobart from its inception in 2001 until AFL Tasmania moved the team to Bellerive Oval in 2005 where its Centre Of Excellence was established and it could more adequately host corporate functions.

A total attendance of 91,347 were present to view the matches played and once again, Victoria took the title defeating Western Australia in the final.

And in 1991 a peculiar draw from the Australian Football League (AFL) scheduled the match to be played at 11am on a Tuesday morning (a working day in Hobart) - despite this, 14,086-people turned out to watch Tasmania fall agonisingly short after leading Victoria B for much of the game, with the Victoria B rushing home with a late flurry to win by 12 points.

North Hobart's first VFL/AFL match took place (as part of a National Round) on 14 June 1952, where 18,387 crammed in to witness Fitzroy beat Melbourne by 20 points, 13-12 (90) to 10.10 (70).

[4] A Super Rugby Pacific match between the New South Wales Waratahs and the Melbourne Rebels was played at the ground in 2013.

The first of the grandstands to be built at North Hobart was the Ryde Street (George Miller) Stand in late-1921 which was badly damaged by fire in June 2012 and has since been rebuilt.

This was built of wood and was in a poor state of disrepair by the time it was burned down in an arson attack in May 1987, it was later replaced by the $1.25 million Doug Plaister Stand that was completed in 1988.

The concrete Roy Cazaly Stand, located in the forward pocket in front of the main entrance gate was constructed during 1960/1961.

[6] However, in recent times, the future of the ground has been assured somewhat with a 1.1 million combined state and federal government investment into the ground that will see improvements including a new kiosk and cool room, terraced and roofed standing area on the Rydges Hotel wing, an AFL compliant coaches and media box and a lift into the Plaister Stand to allow disabled access to the function room.