The sports complex that included Național Stadium, is named Lia Manoliu (1932–1998) after the famous Romanian athlete.

70,000 public In October 2005, it was decided to rebuild the stadium completely; however, initially no funding was found, so some repairs proceeded in lieu of rebuilding.

The plan calls for completion of a new five-star arena by April 2010.

The last football match played was a 6–1 win against Albania on November 21, 2007.

After the match, a few seats were removed from the stadium, as a symbolic start of the rebuilding operations.