A contentious waterfront stadium, attached to a state's long-held AFL dream, has passed an initial parliamentary hurdle but a do-or-die debate still awaits.

Construction of a roofed stadium at Macquarie Point in Hobart is a condition of the Tasmania Devils entering the AFL and AFLW in 2028.

The $1.13 billion project requires the approval of both houses of state parliament to proceed.

An order to build the stadium passed the lower house on Thursday night 25 votes to nine as expected with the support of the governing Liberals and Labor opposition.

However, it faces a trickier passage in the upper house in early December when a handful of independent MPs will decide its fate.

Premier Jeremy Rockliff, who signed the deal with the AFL, said the stadium represented an opportunity Tasmania c

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