PORT Adelaide’s blueprint for a profit this year — after a $2.5 million loss last season — is to be underwritten by a new deal at Adelaide Oval that will deliver $3 million more to the Crows and Power.

The 211-day stadium review ended on Thursday with the Crows and Power promised a combined $3 million more from the Oval in Season 2015.

This figure will rise to a combined $4 million in each of seasons 2016 and 2017 after which the deal will be reviewed again.

An extraordinary bonus for the Crows and Power is the chance to earn money from corporate boxes and catering at home finals while the AFL keeps the gatetakings.

In 2016, each of the SA-based AFL clubs will have their target return — 70 cents in every dollar banked at the Oval — met. This will be the best stadium return in Australian Football.

Critically, the SANFL — a joint partner with the SA Cricket Association as the Oval’s managers — has its income at the venue protected to underwrite game development programs in SA.

SANFL president John Olsen last night sealed the last nod for a new stadium deal from the AFL and Adelaide Football Club chairman Rob Chapman. Letters of intent for the Crows, Power, SANFL and Stadium Management Authority were prepared by the AFL last night and will be signed in Adelaide this morning.

Formal legal documents are expected to take a week to draft. In that time, both the Port Adelaide and Crows board will assess the changes negotiated in SANFL-AFL talks in the past month.

The timing for an end to the long-running stadium review is perfect for Power president David Koch who this evening will present the club’s financials to the Port Adelaide membership base at its annual meeting at Alberton.

The long forecast $2.5 million loss will be confirmed — and explained as the result of Koch and his board leading a spending program that has invested heavily in restoring Port Adelaide’s on-field results and banking on this success to deliver new membership, merchandise and corporate income.

But more telling at tonight’s annual meeting will be if Koch can detail when the Power will report a profit again — and whether this is more likely now that a new stadium deal will push at least another $1.4 million to Port Adelaide’s bottom line this season.

The Power gained an extra $4.3 million from its move from Football Park to Adelaide Oval last season. This was true to the projections delivered by the SANFL and SMA in the original stadium deal.

But the $4.3 million “uplift” was based on estimates of the Power drawing average home crowds of 30,000. In reality, Port Adelaide’s average crowd at the Oval was 44,364 (compared with 26,915 at Football Park in 2013).

The new stadium deal is based on offering an incentive for both the Power and Crows if they draw more than 30,000 to the Oval. The critical gain in more revenue is from the two AFL clubs having access to more stadium assets to sell for corporate revenue and more reserved seats to sell at premium rates.

One of the key parties in the long-running talks last night told The Advertiser: “The review — after all the financial information was gathered across six weeks — resolved that there is indeed more than enough money being generated at Adelaide Oval for all parties to share fairly.”

Port Adelaide’s financials will draw heavy analysis after they are released at Alberton at 6pm today. Koch has vowed to deliver a detailed summary to the members on how the Power has spent its funds in the past three years - and how this “investment” will translate to the club’s expected financial turnaround in the next three seasons.