2018-19 Apertura Liga MX Championship

The gold and blue pride of Nuevo León.

Club Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, simply known as Tigres UANL or Tigres, is a Mexican professional football club based in San Nicolás de los Garza, a municipality in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football, and plays its home matches at Estadio Universitario. Founded in 1960 as Club Deportivo Universitario de Nuevo León, the club represents the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) and adopted its current name in 1967.

Quick Facts

Competition

Apertura 2018 Liga MX

Final opponent

Chivas de Guadalajara

Head coach

Ricardo 'Tuca' Ferretti

Home stadium

Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León

Notable players

Rogelio Funes Mori
Guido Pizarro
Nahuel Guzmán
André-Pierre Gignac

Significance

Cemented Tigres as one of the most successful clubs in Liga MX history

Lore & Background

Tigres' first major trophy was the 1975–76 Copa México, defeating Club América 3–2 on aggregate in the final, becoming the first club from Nuevo León to win an official national title. Domestically, Tigres UANL has won eight Liga MX titles, three Copa MX titles and four Campeón de Campeones. Internationally, the club has won one CONCACAF Champions League, finished as runners-up in the 2015 Copa Libertadores, and reached the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup final, becoming the first Mexican and CONCACAF club to reach the final of a FIFA global competition. Subregionally, the club has won two Campeones Cup titles and one North American SuperLiga.

Reader's Guide

The club's traditional colors are gold and blue. It is one of the two major professional clubs in the state of Nuevo León, alongside their rivals C.F. Monterrey; their rivalry is known as the Clásico Regiomontano. Since 1996 the club has been managed by Sinergia Deportiva, a sports-management company associated with Cemex.