Tigres UANL San Luis FC at the Estadio Alfonso Lastras. Winners (1): 2009 Tigres UANL Club de Fútbol Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, simply referred to as Tigres UANL or Tigres, is a Mexican football club based in San Nicolás de los Garza, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area. Founded in 1960, the club has spent most of its history 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 the state of Nuevo Leon to win a trophy by
Tigres UANL semifinals against Querétaro, in the second leg Tigres won by 2-0. In the finals against Club América, Tigres fell by 0-2 the first leg at the Estadio Universitario and by 1-2 in the second leg at the Estadio Azteca for an aggregate of 1-4. Champions of the Mexican Apertura 2015 season, Tigres qualified to the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League. The team won the first match of the group stage against Herediano on 4 August 2016, by 3-1 at the Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero. The second match was also a victory by 3-1, this time against Plaza Amador on 17 August