It was built in 1969 as the Rodriguez Sports Center under the RizalGovernor Isidro Rodriguez Sr. on a land owned by Marikina, then a municipality of Rizal. It is turned over to the Marikina municipal government under Mayor Bayani Fernando in 1995 and was renovated in 2001 under Mayor Maria Lourdes Carlos-Fernando. and was renamed the Marikina Sports Park. Following the designation of the facility as the home ground of Philippines Football League sides, JPV Marikina F.C. in 2017, the facility's football pitch underwent renovations to meet league standards.
Facilities
The Main Stadium, the football and athletics stadium of the Marikina Sports Center, consists of an athletics track, a wide natural grass pitch, and two grandstands; the West and East Stands. The grandstands have a total seating capacity of 15,000 people. Between the West Stand and the athletics track are basketball and tennis courts. The West Stand is situated along Shoe Avenue. Prior to hosting its first Philippines Football League match, the football pitch hosted a bicycle track. It also hosts an Olympic-size swimming pool inside an aquatics center which can accommodate 2,000 spectators, a sports building, and an indoor gymnasium with 7,000 seats. The MSC hosts facilities for football, tennis, basketball, swimming, and martial arts. Its athletics tracks is open to the public in most nights for a small fee which is used for maintenance expenses of the sports center.
Events
The area has been host to several sports competitions, including the 1972 ISF Men's World Championship, the 1973 Asian Athletics Championships, and the 2014 ASEAN School Games which serves as the main venue. It is also serves as the venue for women's football at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games and supposed to be the main venue of 2020 Palarong Pambansa but cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic. The venue also hosts several entertainment shows such as grand concerts, finals night, live television shows, and other events such as for private uses and other community and local government activities. Aside from hosting events, Marikina Sports Center also host sports clinics for the residents of Marikina during the summer season yearly, dubbed as the "Summer Sports Camp". The main stadium of the facility hosts Philippines Football League league matches as the designated home venue of JPV Marikina F.C. since 2018. The facility has been named the home venue of the JPV Marikina since the inaugural 2017 PFL season though the club didn't play a single home game in the venue due to renovation works. The club started playing their home games at the venue on March 3, 2018 with a 2-1 win over Global Cebu.
