Railway Stadium is a

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a design philosophy that stres ...

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Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

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. It is currently used mostly for

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matches and serves as the home venue for the

Pakistan Railways Pakistan Railways is the state-owned railway operator in Pakistan. Founded in 1861 as the North Western State Railway and headquartered in Lahore, it owns of operational track across Pakistan, stretching from Peshawar to Karachi, offering bot ...

football team, and was one of the primary venues for the

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in the 1990s. The stadium can accommodate around 5,000 spectators. It is owned by the Pakistan Railways Sports Board.

History

Built as a

, it is the oldest stadium in the city of Lahore. In the 1990s the Railway Stadium served as one of the primary venues for the

, until eventually being replaced by the bigger and more advanced

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in Karachi and

Punjab Stadium The Punjab Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as one of the home venues for the Pakistan national football team. The stadium has a capacity of around 10,000 spectato ...

in Lahore. In 1987, the stadium hosted the Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament as well as the inaugural 1993 SAARC Gold Cup, which was the first edition of the eventually renamed

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. It was also the home venue during the

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for Pakistan. Apart from being one of the main venues of several national football events such as the

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and the

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, the stadium was chosen as one of the venues, along with Punjab Stadium, in the 2007 AFC President's Cup held in Lahore.

History

Football tournaments

1993 SAARC Gold Cup

See also

References