The stadium is part of the much larger Basra Sports City complex, and is surrounded by football training pitches, four Five Star hotels and other sports-related facilities.

[citation needed] It hosts Naft Al-Basra and Al-Minaa[6] football matches in the Iraqi League when attendance is low.

For crucial confrontations, it is the main stadium of Basra (65,000) that welcomes the games.

Later, it was agreed to rename it Al-Fayhaa Stadium in reference to the nickname of the city Al Basra.

[citation needed] In 2019, the Ministry of Youth and Sports introduced a new appellation Mohamed Musbah Al-Waeli Stadium [7][8] as a tribute to the ex-mayor of Al Basra who was a main figure in the elaboration of the Basra Sports City complex.