Jinnah Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...

 in Gujranwala

Gujranwala

Gujranwala is a industrial city in the north-east of the Punjab province. It is the sixth largest city in Pakistan with a population of approximately 2,661,360 as on 24 June 2011...

, Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. It is used mostly for cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 matches. The stadium capacity is 20,000 and hosted its first and only Test match in 1991.

Cricket World Cup

It is located on Sialkot Road and also known as Municipal Stadium

Municipal Stadium

Municipal Stadium can mean:*Hiroshima Municipal Stadium , in Japan*Municipal Stadium , in Morocco*Municipal Stadium , in Romania*Jinnah_Stadium_, in Pakistan*in the United States of America:...

. This stadium hosted a One Day International (ODI) match in the 1996 Cricket World Cup, and has a capacity of 20,000 people.

Sachin Tendulkar played his first ODI in this stadium.

The creator of this stadium is Alhaj Muhammad Aslam Butt (former mayor of Gujranwala).