Tigres

Full name	Tigres Fútbol Club S.A.
Nickname(s)	El equipo felino
Founded	20 January 2003; 21 years ago (2003-01-20)
Ground	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Andrea Páez
Manager	Jorge Castro
League	Categoría Primera B
2023	Primera B, 16th of 16
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Tigres Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá that plays in the Categoría Primera B. They play their home games at the Metropolitano de Techo stadium.

History

The history of the club began in 2002, when Expreso Palmira was purchased by businessmen who renamed the club Expreso Rojo de Cartagena. The team won the Primera C championship in that same year. ^[1]

In 2003 the club played its first season in Primera B under the Expreso Rojo name, ^[2] placing first in the aggregate table but being eliminated in the play-offs. Two years later the club moved to Sincelejo, where they only lasted a year, returning to Cartagena in 2006. In the 2007 season the team moved to the city of Fusagasugá, Cundinamarca.

The club's most notable participation in Colombian football occurred in the 2008 Copa Colombia in which the club reached the semi-finals. Expreso Rojo was eliminated by Once Caldas at that stage, with a 1–0 aggregate score.

In 2009 the team moved to Zipaquirá due to economic problems. For the 2011 season Expreso Rojo decided to move back to Fusagasugá, however due to poor results the club moved once again, this time to Soacha. In 2014 the team moved to Girardot, only to return to Zipaquirá the following year due to the poor state of the playing field in Girardot.

For the following season ( 2016), the club was renamed as Tigres F.C. due to a ruling by the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce of Colombia stating that the Expreso Rojo brand was already trademarked and linked to top-flight club Independiente Santa Fe and therefore could not be used by any other company. ^[3] In that season, they earned promotion to Categoría Primera A for the 2017 season by winning Group A in the Primera B semi-finals. They became season runners-up after losing the final to América de Cali on aggregate score. However, they were relegated back to Primera B after only one season in the top flight.

Stadium

Kit manufacturer

Period	Kit manufacturer
2011	Kimo
2012	FSS
2013	Sport Market [4]
2014–2015	Attlé
2016–	Effort

Honours

• Categoría Primera B:

Runners-up (1): 2016

Current squad

As of 15 February 2024 ^{[5] [6]}

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   COL Aldo Montes 2 DF   COL Nicolás Lara 3 DF   COL Kevin Cárdenas 4 DF   COL Miguel Pájaro 5 MF   COL Sebastián Romero 6 DF   COL Alejandro Lopera 7 MF   COL Luis Miguel López 8 MF   COL Tomás Salazar 10 MF   COL Robert Lara 11 FW   COL Luis Palacios 13 MF   COL Andrés Cuadros 14 FW   COL Orles Aragón

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF   COL Tomás Velásquez 17 MF   COL Davinson Ibarra (on loan from Santa Fe) 18 DF   COL David Algarra 19 FW   COL Hugo Mena 20 MF   COL Daniel Palacio 21 MF   COL Dylan Prieto (on loan from Santa Fe) 23 MF   COL David Barbosa 24 MF   COL Michael Mahecha 25 DF   COL Santiago Tamayo (on loan from Santa Fe) 28 MF   COL César Salguero ( captain) 33 GK   COL Omar Rodríguez (on loan from Santa Fe)

References

External links

• Tigres F.C. on DIMAYOR.com