The rugby union club NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka use the venue for most of their home games.

The stadium's seating capacity was expanded to 50,000 in 1996 for the 52nd National Sports Festival of Japan in 1997.

The stadium hosted three matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

It is also the venue for the annual Osaka Grand Prix athletics meeting which took place every May from 1996 to 2010, and again since 2018.

In addition, the stadium is the starting and finishing point for the Osaka International Ladies Marathon, held annually in late January-early February.