Tigres Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian

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team based in

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that plays in the

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. 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

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championship in that same year. In 2003 the club played its first season in Primera B under the Expreso Rojo name, placing first in the aggregate table but being eliminated in the play-offs. Two years later the club moved to

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, where they only lasted a year, returning to Cartagena in 2006. In the 2007 season the team moved to the city of

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, Cundinamarca. The club's most notable participation in Colombian football occurred in the

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in which the club reached the semi-finals. Expreso Rojo was eliminated by

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at that stage, with a 1–0 aggregate score. In 2009 the team moved to

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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

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. 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 (

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), the club was renamed as Tigres F.C. due to a ruling by the

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of Colombia stating that the ''Expreso Rojo'' brand was already trademarked and linked to top-flight club

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and therefore could not be used by any other company. In that season, they earned promotion to

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for the 2017 season by winning Group A in the Primera B semi-finals. They became season runners-up after losing the final to

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on aggregate score. However, they were relegated back to Primera B after only one season in the top flight.

Stadium

Kit manufacturer

Honours

Domestic

** Runners-up (1):

Current squad

Managers

Jhon Jairo Bodmer Jhon Jairo Bodmer Restrepo (born 27 November 1981) is a Colombian football manager. Career Born in Bogotá, Bodmer began his career as an assistant of Expreso Rojo. He became manager of the club in July 2010, replacing Luis Herney Melo, and ach ...

(January 2016 – December 2018) * Diego Díaz (January 2019 – December 2019) * Óscar Morera (January 2020 – December 2021) * Jorge Rojas (January 2022 – September 2023) * Jorge Castro (September 2023 – present) Source:

References

External links

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