Club: Tigres UANL (MEX)
Founded: 1960
City: San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon
Stadium: Estadio Universitario
Manager: Ricardo Ferretti
Qualification method: 2011 Mexican Apertura champion
Previous CONCACAF Champions League appearances: None
Honors: Mexican Primera Division champions - 3 (1977-78, 1981-82, 2011 A); Copa Mexico - 2 (1975-76, 1995-95); Interliga - 2 (2005, 2006)
Official website: http://www.tigres.com.mx

The 2011 Mexican Apertura champion is making its first appearance in the CONCACAF Champions League after beating Santos Laguna to win the Mexican Apertura title, the club's first championship in 29 years and third in its history. Tigres is led by Argentine captain Lucas Lobos, Mexican international Carlos Salcido as well as Brazilians Juninho and Edno. Forward Taufic Guarch, who was a standout for Mexico at the U-20 World Cup in Colombia last summer, arrives on loan from Estudiantes Tecos, joining Alonso Zamora from Atlas, Henry David Lopez from Brazil's EC Noroeste and Dieter Vargas from San Luis. The club is coached by Brazilian Ricardo Ferretti, who is in his third stint with Tigres, having previously coached the club from 2000-03 and again in the 2006 season when he led it to the InterLiga title and qualifying the club for the Copa Libertadores. However he was let go when Tigres failed to qualify for the Clausura playoffs. He made his triumphant return, though, in 2010, guiding Tigres to the Apertura title. Tigres plays at 42,000-seat Estadio Universitario, nicknamed El Volcan (The Volcano), a venue that has hosted several matches of the 1986 World Cup as well as the 2011 U-17 World Cup.