BLAINE, Minn. — Every night and every morning for the past three weeks, Chris Wright, the chief executive of Minnesota United F.C., has checked the long-range weather forecast on his smartphone. This is what happens when a drainage problem ruins the playing surface in your team’s new stadium, when it needs to be replaced on the eve of your team’s debut in the Major League Soccer playoffs, and when you know you have double-booked the venue for that weekend.

For Wright, the weekend’s most important game remains on Sunday night, when Minnesota United will host the Los Angeles Galaxy in a first-round game, Minnesota’s first playoff appearance since joining M.L.S. two years ago. That the Loons, as the team is known, had to tear out and re-sod the grass surface at Allianz Field almost three weeks ago would have been challenge enough. But now there is another wrinkle: The soccer teams will take the field roughly 24 hours after two local Division III college football rivals, the University of St. Thomas and St. John’s University of Minnesota, break in the new turf at their own game.

“Look: Is it ideal? It’s not ideal,” Minnesota United Coach Adrian Heath said Friday at the club’s training site north of Minneapolis. “We know that. It’s something where we’ve gone down the road, and we’re going to get on with it.”

None of this, in fact, would have happened if M.L.S. hadn’t moved up its playoff schedule this season, and if the Loons had not improved drastically over their first two seasons in the league, when they were among the worst teams in M.L.S. (In the Eastern Conference playoffs, New York City F.C. is facing its own scheduling issues in the playoffs; it has relocated its first home game to avoid a conflict with the Yankees, and could have to move future games if it advances.)