The second ring of 1937 was removed, reducing capacity to 22,288, and the stadium was made suitable for track and field competitions again.

The concrete second ring that was added in 1937 to the north and south wing of the stadium was also designed by Jan Wils.

Starting in January 1926, the area in which the stadium was to be built was elevated by means of 750,000 cubic metres of sand.

This phase was completed in October of that year and in the same month the construction of the pile foundation began.

[2] It also hosted the equestrian jumping, field hockey, gymnastics and korfball (demonstration) events.

Above these balconies four speakers from Philips were attached, from which results and messages were broadcast into the Olympic area, a novelty at the time.

The bowl on top which carried the Olympic flame was known to Amsterdammers as "the ashtray of KLM pilots".

In the same year, the islands in the river Schinkel to the west of the stadium were suited with tennis fields and football pitches, an athletics track and a park.

The stadium hosted several international matches of the Netherlands national football team, the first one being the game against Uruguay (0–2) during the Summer Olympics on 30 May 1928.

After the Olympics, the stadium was used regularly for various sporting events, including athletics, speedway, field hockey and cycling.

It was both the home ground of Blauw Wit and BVC Amsterdam (later merged into FC Amsterdam), while Ajax used the stadium for games in which the crowd was expected to exceed the capacity of its own De Meer Stadion (in practice, most of their international matches) or for midweek games which required the use of floodlights, with which the De Meer was not initially suited.

The event, held for the first and only time over two days (thus consisting of two separate meetings with the riders aggregate score determining their placing), was won by defending World Champion Hans Nielsen from Denmark.

In 2014, the stadium was temporarily fitted with a long track speedskating rink, and hosted the Dutch national championship in Allround and Sprint.

Tourists especially come from the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Belgium and Canada, and tours are available in Dutch, German, Greek, English and French.