[2] In 1974, Zohreh Malileh Farshid, one of Iran's first and youngest female architects designed the Ahvaz Sports Complex.

The building progress of the complex was ready to start in November 1978 but after the victory of Iranian Revolution in 1979 and start of the Iran–Iraq War in 1981, the building progress was cancelled.

After the end of the war in 1989, Ahvaz's then mayor, Mohammad Hossein Adeli was announced that the building of the complex will be started in February 1992.

[citation needed] The progress of the building of football venue was started on 2 February 2006 after an official visit of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

[4] The stadium was opened during a match between Iran national under-20 football team and Foolad reserves team on 15 March 2012 which Iran U-20 won the match 4-2.