[2] It is owned by the Pakistan Railways Sports Board.

[1] In the 1990s the Railway Stadium served as one of the primary venues for the Pakistan national football team, until eventually being replaced by the bigger and more advanced Peoples Football Stadium in Karachi and Punjab Stadium in Lahore.

[5][3] In 1987, the stadium hosted the Quaid-e-Azam International Cup[5] as well as the inaugural 1993 SAARC Gold Cup, which was the first edition of the eventually renamed SAFF Championship.

[6][7][8] It was also the home venue during the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification for Pakistan.

[9] Apart from being one of the main venues of several national football events such as the Pakistan Premier League and the PFF National Challenge Cup,[4] the stadium was chosen as one of the venues, along with Punjab Stadium, in the 2007 AFC President's Cup held in Lahore.