The South End of the stadium houses players' changing rooms, a media centre, large video screen and the small uncovered stand with 222 seats for away football fans.

Capacity has occasionally been increased for major FA Cup matches with the addition of temporary stands at the north and south ends.

Touring international teams the 1924 New Zealand All Blacks and the 1960 South Africa Springboks both narrowly defeated Newport RFC at Rodney Parade.

On 4 September 2007, it was announced that the Rodney Parade site was due to be redeveloped into a 15,000-capacity stadium by the beginning of the 2010–11 rugby union season.

In August 2010, it was announced that the target finish date for the first phase had been put back to the beginning of the 2011–12 rugby union season with the full redevelopment planned to take several years.

Newport County's matches against Barnet on 3 September and Morecambe on 10 December were abandoned at half-time because the pitch was waterlogged and the English Football League stepped in to help identify the problem.

[12] The takeover was completed on 27 June 2017 and work started to install a hybrid grass pitch for the 2017–18 rugby and football season.

[13] In 2018 the record attendance for a Newport County match at Rodney Parade was set at 9,836 against Tottenham Hotspur in the FA cup fourth round.

[14] In August 2020 the memorial gates, on the corner of Rodney and Grafton Roads, were given Grade II listed building status.

[15] In March 2021 Newport County were permitted by the EFL to move two home matches to Cardiff City Stadium due to the poor condition of the Rodney Parade pitch.

Scheduled pitch maintenance had been cancelled in Summer 2020 by the ground owners WRU due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.

[20] In July 2023 Newport County football club agreed a new short term lease to continue to play their matches at the ground.