The University of Minnesota expects to make around $10 million by allowing Minnesota United to play its first season and a half at the U’s TCF Bank Stadium.

The university’s board of regents approved a contract Friday that will make the on-campus football stadium the temporary home for the Major League Soccer expansion team starting in March.

The deal says TCF Bank Stadium will host 23 games in 2017 and another 11 in 2018. But with no construction date set for a new stadium in St. Paul, the team has an option to use TCF Bank Stadium for the entire 2018 season if necessary.

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Loons acquire backup goalkeeper Adrian Zendejas from Nashville The team expects to draw 10,000 to 20,000 fans per game its first two years. TCF Bank Stadium holds 50,805, and the team’s St. Paul stadium is expected to seat 20,000.

According to the contract, the team will guarantee the university at least $1 million in 2017 and $550,000 in 2018, but the “potential total,” assuming 20,000 tickets sold per game, is calculated at $6.87 million and $3.29 million plus various costs.

Here’s what the U is getting from the deal:

$40,000 per game plus $1 per ticket sold

75 percent of Aramark’s concessions revenue, projected at $3 per attendee

Reimbursement for all services provided and costs incurred, including security and ticket takers

Fees for about 1,100 reserved parking spaces

$53,333 per year for storage

25 free tickets for Suite 1 and 12 nonpremium seats

Up to $735,000 to install new football turf after the last soccer game in 2018

$1,500 per game for the University Good Neighbor Fund, which is handed out in grants for the beautification or security of neighborhoods affected by games at TCF Bank Stadium

1,000 free nonpremium tickets for the 2017 season and a prorated number of seats for the 2018 season to be handed out through the Good Neighbor Fund

In order to have a 20,000-seat facility ready for play in early 2018, Minnesota United team owners early this year said they hoped to begin stadium construction off Snelling and University avenues by June 2016. That date came and went without a key property-tax exemption signed into law, and team owners have since said that land and stadium design issues remain complicated.

Land negotiations with Midway Shopping Center owner RK Midway appear to be ongoing, but both sides have declined to elaborate publicly.

Team owners have said they will pay for the $150 million stadium’s construction.

When the National Football League’s Vikings played at TCF Bank Stadium for two years while U.S. Bank Stadium was under construction, the team paid about $300,000 a game, or a maximum of $3 million per year year to the U. The Vikings also paid about $5.8 million for capital improvements, such as new turf and heating coils under the field.

Frederick Melo contributed to this report.