Final Victoria Stadium is mostly used for
association football matches. All clubs in the
Gibraltar Football League play their matches at Victoria Stadium. As such, it is also used to host the Final of the
Rock Cup. Prior to membership of
FIFA, it had been used as the
Gibraltar national football team's home ground for unofficial internationals. Following the
Gibraltar Football Association's admittance as a full member of
UEFA in May 2013, UEFA vetoed Gibraltar using Victoria Stadium as their home ground as it did not meet UEFA standards and as the
Government of Gibraltar owned it. As a result of this lack of ownership, the Gibraltar Football Association did not have the power to improve it. The Government of Gibraltar and the
Chief Minister of Gibraltar,
Fabian Picardo stated that they were not going to spend Gibraltarian taxpayer's money on renovating the stadium without the site having UEFA approval stating "It would have been the worst possible bargain for the people of Gibraltar to have pursued the GSD’s approach of putting taxpayer’s money into Victoria against the wishes of UEFA at the time". Victoria Stadium did meet the UEFA criteria as a Category 2 Stadium for UEFA intercontinental club matches such as
UEFA Champions League games with an example of this being when
Lincoln Red Imps used it to host their
2016–17 UEFA Champions League match against Scottish team
Celtic. However, in 2017, UEFA stated that Victoria Stadium could not be used for all of Gibraltar's representatives in the UEFA Champions League and
UEFA Europa League during the 2017–18 season. This was owing to an increase in the number of Gibraltarian representatives in the competitions and due to failing a UEFA pitch inspection. The Gibraltar Football Association proposed to build the
Europa Point Stadium to replace the Victoria Stadium as Gibraltar's national stadium. Owing to opposition, the Europa Point Stadium plans were scrapped by the Government of Gibraltar. An alternative plan for replacement of Victoria Stadium was put forward for a new stadium to be built at
Lathbury Barracks however the
Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society opposed this citing that the
Ministry of Defence would have to give up land that had been designated by the
European Union Habitats Directive as a Special Area of Conservation for the proposed site. In April 2017, the Gibraltar Football Association announced its purchase of the stadium in order to redevelop it into a
UEFA Category 4 stadium at a cost of £16.5 million given to the GFA by UEFA and FIFA. The proposed new stadium sites at Lathbury and Europa Point would be developed into multi-sports facilities by the Government of Gibraltar. The GFA announced it would invest £15 million into the stadium after purchasing it owing to grants from UEFA and FIFA. In January 2018, it was announced that due to the
Gibraltar Music Festival being held at the stadium that year, football games in August and September would be played at Lathbury Barracks. ==Other sports==