The complex has: The Saffrons is home to Eastbourne Town F.C., who play in the Isthmian League South East Division and who have played football here since 1886, when the then Devonshire Park Football Club moved grounds from their former namesake (now the venue for the Eastbourne International tennis tournament).

The Larkins Field End, where the clubhouse stands, was originally a wooden grandstand structure, built in the 1930s when attendances at the town club were increasing.

In 1946, the pitch was moved closer to the cricket ground to lay foundations for the East Terrace, which still remains today.

The West Terrace, where the team dugouts are situated once had a movable fence depending on when either the football or the cricket was playing.

In recent years the cricket green was moved slightly away to allow a permanent fence and asphalt laid for spectators to stand.

[5] The Saffrons has hosted both amateur and county football events: The highest attendance to date was 7,378, in a FA Cup qualifying game against Hastings United on 10 October 1953.

Most of these involved Sussex County Cricket Club, but (especially in earlier years) a number of tour and invitational sides played here too.

[8] The inaugural first-class match at the Saffrons was played in May 1896, when South of England drew with the touring Australians.

County cricket returned to the Saffrons in May 2017 when Sussex played Gloucestershire in a Royal London One-Day Cup match.

In the 1894–95 season, the rugby club used "The New Inn", now called Bibendum, the opposite side of the road as their Headquarters and dressing rooms.