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Club de Fútbol Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León |
- Club de Fútbol 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 city in the Monterrey metropolitan area.
- 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 Mexican champions seven 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.
- 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.
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