It serves as the home stadium for the 3 biggest football clubs of Nicosia APOEL, Olympiakos & Omonia.

It is located at the entrance to Nicosia (as approached from the A1 highway) and was inaugurated in 1999 by the then-President Glafcos Clerides and Archbishop Chrysostomos I.

[citation needed] The GCP Stadium hosted all home matches of Anorthosis Famagusta's 2008–09 UEFA Champions League group stage campaign and all APOEL's 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage home matches.

Two years later, it hosted all APOEL's home matches in the club's surprising run to the quarter-finals of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League.

GCP Stadium also hosted all APOEL's home matches in the club's impressive run to the last 16 of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League.

[3] In the 2016–17 domestic league season, tenants APOEL drew the highest average home attendance (7,126).

[4] The all-time attendance record for the football stadium is 23,043 tickets in the match between APOEL and Omonia for the 2002–03 Cypriot First Division.

The record of the highest attendance for a European Competition game is 22,701[6] tickets in the match between APOEL and Olympique Lyonnais for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League last-16.