The current ground has a lone grandstand with bench style seating, with the structure incorporating the Rabbitohs' training equipment/gym, as well as a cafe and basic luxury hospitality.

The upgrade offers the Rabbitohs a professional standard playing surface and facilities to allow the oval to be used as their preferred training ground and for a limited number of pre-season and exhibition matches.

Redfern Park was designed and constructed during the 1880s as a Victorian pleasure ground with ornamental gardens, cricket pitches, bowling green and a bandstand.

In 1903, legendary cricketer Victor Trumper played at the ground and reportedly hit a ball out of the field which went through the second-floor window of the boot factory across the road where a block of apartments now stand.

[6] The venue's all-time attendance record of 24,219 on 26 March 1967 in a Pre-season Cup double header featuring South Sydney vs St George and Balmain vs Manly-Warringah.

In the early game Cronulla defeated the Sydney Tigers 18–10, while the Rabbitohs marked their return to the ground with a 14–19 loss to a new team in the premiership, the Perth based Western Reds.

After a break of nine years, Redfern Oval returned as South Sydney's home ground for three games in the 1996 ARL season.

It was ultimately decided by Sydney City Council that Redfern would be converted into a 5000 seater training facility with the possibility of playing interstate NRL teams at the ground.