Tigres UANL 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 conquering the Copa MX. In the 1977–78, they won their first
Tigres de Quintana Roo then was submerged in a financial crisis. The team has won twelve championships to date: 1955, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2015. In commemoration of their first 50 years of competition, an alternate logo was designed in 2005. The Tigres played their 50th season relying only on Mexican players, making the championship more significant. Furthermore, the 2005 season was named "Ing. Alejo Peralta" in memory of the Tigres' founder and father of the current owner. At the end of the 2006 season, the club's president, Carlos Peralta, announced that the team would move to