It is a popular community recreation oval and greenspace and is used for lower-grade South Australian Grade Cricket League matches and is the home ground for the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Its record crowd is 24,000 (estimated) attending a SANFL match between Sturt and Norwood on 9 June 1924 – at the time the highest for any suburban oval in Adelaide.

[5] The match itself was remarkable: South Australia won by 97 runs after following on, and two different bowlers (George Thompson and Henry Hay) took nine-wicket innings hauls.

Sturt Football Club erects temporary fencing on match days in order to charge admission fees which are reimburse council for half the ground preparation costs and contribute to council expenditure on the Oval's football related infrastructure.

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