[3][2] The stop is located in an open trench below street level, and resembles a station having a centre platform with stairs and a glass-walled elevator leading up to street level.

Bridges above the stop carry automobile traffic over the tram line via a roundabout.

On 7 August 2019, the roundabout above the Sportlaan stop was opened for road traffic.

[4][5] Sportlaan was earlier a stop for metro line 51, a hybrid metro/sneltram (light rail) service that opened in 1990.

Metro line 51 service south of Amsterdam Zuid station was closed in 2019 to rebuild stations with lower platforms to accommodate the new low-floor trams for line 25.