Wagga Netball are locked in and Basketball Wagga are also keen to make extensive use of the expansive stadium.

"We're very short of space at Bolton Park which does impact on our ability to have training there so we have been utilising the new stadium," Basketball Wagga's senior representative director, Summa Stephens, said.

"We have been negotiating trying to get some Wagga Blaze games out there.

"From a playing perspective, the floor is exceptional and everything's brand new and exciting and it's something we'd like to be able to showcase as an attraction for Wagga,"

Stephens said there are still some logistics to work through to ensure the centre court can be set up as a 'show court' with courtside seating. But there's definite interest in broad use.

"We see it as an opportunity for us to increase our ability to have more teams playing local comps because currently in our comps, we have no more space and no more court time available," Stephens said. 

Wagga Netball's premier competition will be played in the new venue but so too will plenty of junior games.

In fact, netballers were early to the venue, with junior rep teams featuring in a Netball NSW regional league fixtures even before the site's official opening.

"It's absolutely wonderful. It's wonderful to play on. I don't think I've heard anything but great comments," Wagga Netball president Rosemary Clarke said.

"I think this winter will be chockers in there. The idea is to maximise the use of the stadium. We want everybody to be able to use it. Everyone's been a part of Wagga Netball so we're trying to get as many people as possible to experience it."

Council is hosting an open day at the venue next Saturday, March 30. 

"It's a multi-purpose venue. It's not just basketball and netball, it's got capacity for volleyball, futsal and other indoor sports too," Council's Strategic Asset Planner, Ben Creighton, said.

"The venue itself is capable of hoping elite level fixtures but it's really around the day-to-day use and making sure that it's used for multiple sporting events and also other events as well."

There's potential to host trade shows or other similar functions at the stadium, which includes four meeting rooms and a reception area capable of being used as a function room. 

"We're very pleased, it's a great outcome I think," Creighton said.

"The reaction from sporting groups and tours we've done has been unbelievable. Everyone's like, 'Ooh, wow, we probably weren't expecting this.'"

There are three netball or basketball courts, including an elite standard scoreboard at centre court.

Running across them is Wagga's first international-sized Futsal court for indoor soccer.

The new stadium is an important addition at the site in the city's east, alongside the outdoor netball courts, the rugby league fields at Parramore Park and Equex's main rugby league ground which will host an NRL fixture this year.

"Exhibition Centre (Equex (is) becoming another significant sporting hub for the city." Creighton said.

"I think if you look at the netball and the work that's been done here at the stadium and with Parramore Park and McDonalds Park as our elite level rectangular field, it's really turned this precinct into another sporting hub for the city, which is important moving forward."

The venue will be particularly important after PCYC missed out on the most recent round of federal funding for its new facility, pushing back its plans for a sports venue. 

As for what the growing Equex precinct means in the long run for the Bolton Park stadium remains to be seen.

"Part of that discussion is really part of the Bolton Park master plan which has just come off public exhibition in the last week or so," Creighton said.

"We're reviewing the submissions around that at the moment but definitely this is part of our plans for catering for indoor sport that require these sort of courts.

"The future for Bolton Park is still to be determined through the Bolton Park master planning process."

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