It was first used for first class games in 1988, replacing the TCA Ground at the Domain. It underwent redevelopment in 2002 and although it has an official capacity of 16000, the next game (Australia vs England one_day match on January 11, 2003) attracted 16719 people.
It was a grand plan but subsequent direction taken by the football authorities and a determination by the Federal government to approve grants to both Bellerive (cricket) and York Park (football) saw a revised boutique concept at Bellerive.
The early settlers faced problems such as storms and drought, snakes, shortages of seed, livestock and equipment, the need to use unskilled convict labour, attacks from bushrangers, as well as the isolation from Hobart by the river, but the district was fertile and especially good for growing fruit, and many farms were established.
The first major cricket match played at Bellerive following the relocation of the TCA administration from the old TCA ground on the Queens Domain was in January 1988 when Tasmania hosted Sri Lanka; the match was drawn.
The first mention of the sport came in 1884 when a local side, Bellerive, played a challenge match against VFA side Carlton which, not surprisingly, the Victorians won comfortably.
After the Great War Bellerive re-formed but did not play in a formal competition until 1930 when it was a founder member, along with 4 other clubs, of the South Eastern Football Association.
In 1944 the Bellerive committee resolved to pursue admission to the TFL as a serious option and made the strategically astute decision to alter the club name to Clarence, thereby suggesting an association with the entire Clarence region, of which Bellerive was just a part.
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