A few players at a time, New York City F.C. trickled into Yankee Stadium, which was receiving a power wash and a good scrub on Friday afternoon. Two days ahead of the home opener for N.Y.C.F.C., one of Major League Soccer’s two new teams, nearly all the players were getting their first peek at the club’s home for the next three seasons — and perhaps longer.

Down on the field, about two dozen men laid the final pieces of sod over the infield and parts of the warning track. They raked it and fussed over it, dropping to their hands and knees at times, and took particular care with the seams where the strips of temporary grass covering the basepaths met the permanent stuff.

There was no pitching mound, nor any backstop netting, nor any sign of the Yankees themselves, who will not play here until early April. Until then the ballpark will be a soccer stadium, so on Friday the stadium’s digital signage and its towering scoreboard in center field displayed the logo of N.Y.C.F.C. and the words “Welcome to the club.”