The Melbourne Vixens now use it for home games in the ANZ Championship. The Melbourne Phoenix and Melbourne Kestrels played their last home game there before aligning to become the Melbourne Vixens. It has been used for netball since 1997 for Melbourne Phoenix and Melbourne Kestrels games in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy. For the 2012-13 NBL season, the Tigers will return to the venue, playing 7 of their 13 home games at the arena. The Dragons withdrew from the competition after winning the championship in 2009, leaving the arena and the NBL.
Until this recent move the venue was largely empty outside of the two weeks of the Australian Open tennis tournament. Formerly, the Victoria Titans and Melbourne Tigers used it as their home, until high rental prices forced the teams to find other venues. The South Dragons NBL team had made the Venue its home court. The tennis court is a Plexicushion surface and the roof is retractable, making it one of the few venues where tennis can be played during rain. The arena features a cycling track which is covered over with seating for court events. It was originally called the Multi-Purpose Venue, until the naming rights were sold to Vodafone. Construction of the arena, which has a maximum capacity of 11,000 people, commenced in the late 1990s, and was completed in 2000.
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