[3] It is located in the northeastern part of the city, namely the Vrapčići suburb, and is principal stadium and the home-ground of FK Velež Mostar football club.

[4] Like all other clubs in Mostar at the time, Velež played their league matches before World War II at a quarter of the city then known as "Bakamovića glava", later known as "Staro Veležovo igralište".

FK Velež's board decided to call a loan among the club's supporters and friends, and all Mostar's working class, whose money would be used to buy land and build a playground.

When an agreement was reached on the purchase of land, the club was banned by the regime on 3 September 1940, and the money collected was than directed to humanitarian cause "Red Assistance".

After World War II stadium Pod Bijelim Brijegom was built through volunteer labor of young people from Mostar and Bosnia and Herzegovina, between 1947 and 1958.

Such political ambiance showed in the forced eviction of FK Velež Mostar from its traditional home-ground of Bijeli Brijeg in 1992, and in subsequent legal disputes over stadium usurpation by another club, emerging in the city at the time.

[1] The location was expected to be Velež's temporary home until a return to the Bijeli Brijeg stadium, and in case of that scenario being impossible, was seen as a suitable replacement due to its proximity to the rest of the city, even years later.

In 2022, Velež signed a contract with the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina to build a new hybrid pitch with finances shared between the club, the FA and UEFA funds that would cost up to 1.200.000 euros.