- published: 14 Oct 2014
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TCF Bank Stadium, sometimes referred to as either "The Bank" or "The Gopher Hole," is the football stadium for the Minnesota Golden Gophers college football team at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 50,805 seat on-campus "horseshoe" style stadium is designed to support future expansion to seat up to 80,000 people, and it cost $288.5 million to build.
TCF Bank Stadium is the first of three spectator sports stadiums that either have been built or are being developed for the major tenants of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome – the Gophers and two professional teams, the Minnesota Twins baseball and Minnesota Vikings football teams. Served by existing and under construction light rail, the three stadiums are located within a 1.25 miles (2.01 km) radius loosely centered at the Guthrie Theater on the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis.
TCF Bank is the third on-campus stadium and fourth stadium used for University of Minnesota football. Previous fields have been Northrop Field, Memorial Stadium, and Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.