Tigres UANL

Tigres UANL

Full name	Club de Fútbol Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Nickname(s)	Los Tigres (The Tigers) La U de Nuevo León (The U of Nuevo León) Los Auriazules (The Golden-blue ones) Los Tigres de México (The Tigers from Mexico)
Founded	7 March 1960; 64 years ago (1960-03-07)
Ground	Estadio Universitario
Capacity	41,615
Owner	UANL Cemex (through Sinergia Deportiva)
Chairman	Mauricio Culebro
Manager	Veljko Paunović
League	Liga MX
Clausura 2024	Regular phase: 5th Final phase: Quarter-finals
Website	Club website
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Club de Fútbol Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, abbreviated as Tigres UANL and internationally known as Tigres de México, is a Mexican professional football club based in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, Mexico. Founded in 1960, the club has spent 60 years in Liga MX, the top tier of the Mexican football league system.

The club had their first major success in the 1975–76 season, becoming the first team from Nuevo León to win a trophy by conquering the Copa MX against Club América. Tigres have been league champions eight times, and have won the Copa MX three times. In international competitions, Tigres won a CONCACAF Champions League title in 2020 (finishing as runners-up three times), and was the 2015 Copa Libertadores Finals runner-up to River Plate. In the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup, Tigres finished runners–up against Bayern Munich as they became the first CONCACAF club to reach a Club World Cup final.

Tigres is the official team of the University of the state of Nuevo León. Their home is the 41,615 capacity Estadio Universitario, located inside the University complex in San Nicolás de los Garza.^[1] The team's traditional kit colours are gold and blue. Tigres is one of the two professional football teams of Nuevo León, along with rival C.F. Monterrey, the local derby is known as the Clásico Regiomontano.