It's a New York tradition, and now the U.S. Women's Soccer Team will be part of it – honored with a ticker-tape parade up the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan.

Mayor Bill de Blasio made it official Tuesday evening, his office issuing a press release announcing the parade will begin at 11 a.m. Friday at the Battery to celebrate the Women's National Soccer Team "on their historic World Cup championship."

The parade will take the traditional route up lower Broadway to City Hall. The mayor's office advised New Yorkers to go to nyc.gov/parade or call 311 on Wednesday between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. EST to sign up for the possibility of obtaining tickets to attend the special program at City Hall.

The soccer team defeated Japan 5-2 Sunday to become the first women's national team to win three World Cup championships.

Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, was honored with a parade in 1926. Tennis great Althea Gibson was the star of a 1957 salute after she won the Wimbledon women's singles championship. Three years later, there was a parade for figure skater Carol Heiss, the 1960 women's Olympic gold medal winner.  

But this will be the first ticker-tape parade celebrating an entire women's athletic team.

"Men would get it – baseball, football teams. Why not the girls?," one New Yorker told NY1 in lower Manhattan.

"These ladies deserve this as much as the Yankees and the Mets and the other so-called sports heroes we have, and I'd love to see it," said a man along the parade route.

The first ticker-tape parade was held in 1886, an impromptu celebration of the Statue of Liberty's dedication. The first fully organized parade was held in 1889 to mark the centennial of George Washington’s first inaugural address.

For decades thereafter, ticker-tape parades were held rather often, usually to celebrate and honor politicians, foreign dignitaries, returning soldiers and heroes.

The city held nine ticker tape extravaganzas in 1962 alone, including one for John Glenn, the first American to orbit earth, another to celebrate the creation of the New York Mets, one to honor the Yankees for winning the 1961 World Series, and parades to cheer the leaders of Brazil, Panama and Iran.

All the parades since 1998 have been for local sports teams.

"1960 was the last time a female was honored that was a long time ago," said Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

Brewer, who first proposed the parade for the women's soccer team, says the celebration would send an important message.

“They would be and are mentors and role models, and we need people like this in our world," she said.

It's a thought not lost on girls and young women NY1 spoke to.

"That would be like a lifetime opportunity, and it would be very cool, in my opinion," one girl told us.

Parade costs can vary. The 1990 parade for Nelson Mandela cost more than $1 million. Some have come in cheaper, with private companies helping to foot the bill.