It’s the final piece to building a bonafide soccer team in The City Beautiful: opening up Orlando City Soccer Club’s own stadium.

Ribbon-cutting for the new stadium took place Friday morning.

“This is it. We’re actually going to be opening the stadium, so we’ll have lots of people there. We’re inviting the Parramore community to come in. We’re going to be neighbors, and we want to be good neighbors," Orlando City Soccer's Kay Rawlins said.

Ahead of the unveiling, construction crews were fanned out, working feverishly to put finishing touches on the site. The club said that structural work will be completed prior to the opening, but cosmetic work, beautification and adjustments will need extra time.

The stadium — filled with more than 25,000 seats and 49, permanent, rainbow-colored seats as tribute to Pulse victims — is located two blocks from the Amway Center in the Parramore neighborhood along West Church Street.

For organizers and city leaders alike, this is the culmination of many months of construction — and symbolic of a growing soccer fandom in Central Florida.

“MLS has really taken off in Orlando. We’ve become a soccer capital of the southeast United States," Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said. "The team has built a fantastic stadium."

Before it's even complete, the new home for Orlando City Soccer and the women's team, the Orlando Pride, came out on top in Major League Soccer stadium rankings by British newspaper The Guardian.

According to the club, the downtown stadium is 100 percent privately funded. Orlando City’s first home game in its new digs is Sunday, March 5.

Ahead of the match, a kids-vs.-pros game will take place March 2 as both a way to drum up enthusiasm for the first home game and a method to test out the new stadium, according to the club.

"We've got 100 kids, and the first team, they're going to play," Rawlins said. "It's going to be chaotic and crazy but so much fun. It's an opportunity to test out the stadium, the scoreboard, the ribbon boards, even the ticketing piece, security. Do the toilets all flush? We're going to ask people to be a little patient with us."