The stadium also hosted the Nigeria Premier League Super Four playoff that season and the Nigerian FA Cup final in 2007.

"[citation needed] The Teslim Balogun stadium was also the main venue of the 18th National Sports festival in December 2012.

[8] In 2018, during the Nigerian Independence day (1 October 2018); The Crawford Age grade competition[9] was held at the Olympic Standard swimming pool of the stadium.

The stadium was designed by Nigerian Architect Onafowokan Michael Olutusen in 1981, construction commenced and there was a halt in the process following political instabilities.

The stadium incorporates an architectural style of tropical modernism, a style of architecture where the climate is a major consideration, this can be seen in the careful incorporation of terraces to support airflow and cross ventilate indoor spaces in the stadium thereby improving air quality of indoor spaces.

The roof members are suspended on steel trusses, to prevent the viewers from adverse weather effects like rain during the use of the facility.