Originally in the area there was the small Stadio Municipale di Mogadiscio as the main sport area in the capital of Italian Somalia; it was created in the late 1930s just north of the Porto di Mogadiscio and hosted the first football matches in Mogadishu.

The original real-grass turf was changed to artificial in the late 1990s, after the civil war damages to the stadium.

The Banadir stadium was fully destroyed during the Somali Civil War in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The old stadium, which was not repaired since the early 1980s was one of the loveliest football faciities [sic] in Africa during the late 1950s and early 1960s, according to Abdullahi Huusein Baskuwaale who was a member of the first Somali team to play in the stadium at the end of its construction in 1956.

As of 2010, the stadium is the home field for the following teams: In August 2019, it was renamed after Abdirahman Omar Osman, known as "Engineer Yarisow", the former mayor of Mogadishu and governor of the Banaadir region, who died in an explosive attack in his office.