[4] The stadium is part of a sports complex built in 2002 by the N. Chandrababu Naidu Government to host the 2003 Afro-Asian Games.

[5][6][7] It is used mostly for association football matches as is it currently the home of Indian Super League club Hyderabad FC.

Orange coloured corrugated metal sheets wrap around the inner and outer edges of the roof trusses.

The stadium was named in the memory of G. M. C. Balayogi, an incumbent Speaker of Lok Sabha who died in an air crash.

About 2,800 Kuchipudi artistes performed a centuries-old dance on 26 December 2010 to earn a place in the Guinness World Records.