- Tigres beat LAFC in the CCL final
- The Mexican side had previously lost in three finals
- Andre-Pierre Gignac made his mark on the tournament
Tigres won the CONCACAF Champions League for the first time on Tuesday, defeating Los Angeles FC in the 2020 final. In doing so, Los Felinos ended a run of three losses in the final of the continental tournament – all within the last five years – and secured a berth at the FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2020™.
The exciting competition came to a crescendo this week, after being suspended in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final were all played in a ‘bubble’ in Orlando, Florida (USA).
The road to Qatar
The Nueva Leon-based team kicked off their tournament with a surprise defeat away at Alianza (El Salvador) in the first leg of the Round of 16. However, they bounced back in the return leg to dramatically qualify on aggregate, and from that point on, they never looked back.
In the…