Club de Futbol Tigres de la Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, simply known as Tigres UANL or Tigres es Tigres, is a Mexican professional football club based in San Nicolas 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 Leon to win a trophy by conquering the Copa MX against Club America. 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 edition of FIFA Club World Cup, Tigres finished runners–up against Bayern Munich making it the first club from CONCACAF to reach the final.
Tigres is the official team of the University of the state of Nuevo Leon. Their home is the 41,615 capacity Estadio Universitario, located inside the University complex in San Nicolas de los Garza. The team's traditional kit colours are gold and blue. Tigres is one of the two professional football teams of Nuevo Leon, along with rival C.F. Monterrey, the local derby is known as the Clasico Regiomontano.