UANL Tigres

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UANL Tigres
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Basic data
Surname Tigres de la Universidad
Autónoma de Nuevo León
Seat San Nicolás de los Garza , Mexico
founding 1967
president Miguel Ángel Garza
Website www.tigres.com.mx
First soccer team
Head coach Ricardo Ferretti
Venue Estadio Universitario
Places 52,000
league League MX
Clausura 2019 master
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The Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León , better known as UANL Tigres or Tigres for short , are a Mexican football club that plays in the MX league. Until it was sold in the summer of 1996 to the internationally operating building materials company Cemex , which had supported the association financially since the 1960s, the association officially joined the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León . The headquarters of the association and the university are located in the suburb of San Nicolás de los Garza north of Monterrey .

In the greater Monterrey area there is a great rivalry with CF Monterrey , the local derby is known as Clásico Regiomontano .

history

After the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) had already enjoyed a professional football team through the temporary takeover of CF Nuevo León between 1960 and 1962, a university-owned professional team was founded in 1967. At that time, the starting conditions were certainly not the best, because with CF Monterrey and CF Nuevo León two clubs from the neighboring city of Monterrey were represented in the first division. In this respect, the interest of the local audience was kept within modest limits when the club made its second division debut in the 1967/68 season.

The sporting successes were also a long time coming. After the club had been on the verge of falling into the third division in 1969/70, the successes should from now on set almost every two years. So the team was runner-up in the second division in 1972, and two years later even won the championship and the associated promotion to the Primera División, from which the club has since become indispensable.

While the first years in the football club (1974/75 to 1976/77) were even less successful (they ended with 13th, 12th and 19th place in the overall annual ranking), the team won the Copa México in 1976; and their first championship in 1978, which was followed by their second championship title in 1982.

The club's fourth title win was the second cup success in 1996. But the joy about this was very muted because the team was forcibly transferred to the second division due to a corruption scandal at the end of the same season. The transfer of the penalty was accompanied by the transition of the association's patronage from the UANL to the Sinergia Deportiva, a sports complex managed by the companies CEMEX and FEMSA .

The team, from now on only under the name of Tigres, succeeded in being promoted again straight away. Since then (between Apertura 2011 and Clausura 2019) five championship titles and one cup victory (Clausura 2014) have been added. They also made it to the final in the Copa Libertadores in 2015 , where the Tigres lost 3-0 to CA River Plate .

After being in the final of the CONCACAF Champions League three times in four years , they won it in 2020 as Tigres 2-1 against Los Angeles FC .

successes

The championship teams

The presentation of the championship teams will follow Mediotiempo until 2015, the naming of some of the nicknames of players from the championship team from 1982 is based on a Tigres fan page.

Known players

Trainer

Celebrity fans

The famous Tigres fans include:

See also

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Company information according to the article Gignac - L'Œil des Tigres in France Football of June 24, 2015, pp. 30/31 (French).
  2. ↑ Match report on transfermarkt.de , accessed on December 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ The tournament of the Club World Cup 2020 did not take place until February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The Club World Cup 2021 is scheduled to take place in December 2021.
  4. ↑ Tigres fan page (English).
  5. ↑ Squad of the Tigres in the Apertura 2016 at soccerway.com (with the exception of the first substitute goalkeeper, who also remained without a mission, only players with at least one mission are listed).
  6. ↑ Squad of the Tigres in the Apertura 2017 at mediotiempo.com (Spanish; with the exception of the first substitute goalkeeper, who also remained without a mission, only players with at least one mission are listed). Template: dead link /! ... nourl ( Page no longer available )
  7. ↑ Tigres squad in the 2019 Clausura at soccerway.com (only players with at least one mission are listed).
  8. ↑ Aficionados famosos a Tigres y Monterrey (Spanish; ESPN video, accessed August 8, 2018).
  9. ↑ 'Sacan la garra': Rob Schneider y Adam Sandler se declaran fans del equipo de 'Tigres' (Spanish; article from March 11, 2015).
  10. ↑ Here's Why Rob Schneider Loves Mexican Soccer So Much (Spanish; article from December 14, 2015).