# 1995–96 Tigres UANL season

The 1995–96 Tigres UANL season is the 36th season in the football club's history and the 29th consecutive season in the top flight of Mexican football.

## Summary

In summertime, Manuel Silos in his 4th year as Dean of the University of Nuevo Leon appointed sports agent Guillermo Lara as new club President in a desperate effort to rescue the team from its first relegation ever. Thanks to Lara, two times (1991-92 and 1993-94) league Champion manager Victor Manuel Vucetich was appointed as new head coach after being discarded by Silos in 1993. Also, Lara reinforced the squad with several transfers in: Goalkeepers Robert Dante Siboldi (Puebla) and Miguel de Jesús Fuentes (Atlas), Defenders Alfredo Murguía (León), Marcos Ayala (Toluca), Arnulfo Tinoco (Toluca) and Francisco Gómez (Morelia), Midfielders Omar Arellano (Chivas) and José Manuel “Chepo” De la Torre (Chivas) and Argentine Forward Martin Felix Ubaldi (Atlas). However, the club had four failed bids: Juan Carlos Chávez (Atlas), Osmar Donizete (Tecos), Eric Wynalda and Ivo Basay all of them explicit petitions by manager Vucetich. On 1 February 1996 Manuel Silos resigned his post as University Dean following allegations of massive corruption during his tenure, also being the last day of Guillermo Lara as Chairman, then, Reyes Tamez was appointed as interim President until June 1996.
In spite of the squad clinches 1995-96 Copa Mexico Final against heavily favourites Atlas FC -its first cup trophy since 1976- on 24 March 1996 the club was relegated to 1996-97 Primera División A season for the first since 1974 after lost the match against its archrival CF Monterrey on round 32 with 5 points below Atlético Morelia over the relegation table.

## Squad

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 | URU | Robert Dante Siboldi |
| — | GK | MEX | Miguel de Jesus Fuentes |
| — | DF | MEX | Alfredo Murguia |
| — | DF | MEX | Marcos Ayala [de] |
| — | DF | MEX | Arnulfo Tinoco [de] |
| — | DF | MEX | Guillermo Muñoz |
| — | DF | MEX | Roberto Ruiz Esparza |
| — | DF | MEX | Francisco Gómez |
| — | DF | MEX | Raúl Llanes [es] |
| — | MF | MEX | Martín Castañeda |
| 8 | MF | MEX | José Manuel de la Torre |
| 27 | MF | MEX | Omar Arellano |
| — | MF | MEX | Felipe Ayala |
| — | MF | MEX | Humberto Gonzalez |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | ITA | Pietro Maiellaro |
| — | MF | MEX | Daniel Deeke [de] |
| — | MF | USA | Tab Ramos |
| — | MF | CHI | Jaime Pizarro |
| — | MF | MEX | Fabián Peña |
| — | MF | MEX | Javier Lozano |
| — | MF | MEX | Marco Antonio Ruiz |
| — | FW | BIH | Sead Seferovic |
| — | FW | MEX | David Oliva [es] |
| — | FW | MEX | Sergio Almaguer |
| — | FW | ARG | Martin Felix Ubaldi |
| — | FW | MEX | Juan Antonio Flores Barrera [es] |
| — | FW | BIH | Almir Turkovic |

### Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| GK | Robert Dante Siboldi | Puebla FC | |
| GK | Miguel de Jesus Fuentes | Atlas FC | |
| DF | Alfredo Murguia | Club Leon | |
| DF | Guillermo Muñoz | Club Leon | |
| DF | Arnulfo Tinoco [de] | CD Toluca | |
| DF | Marcos Ayala [de] | CD Toluca | |
| DF | Francisco Javier Gomez | Atlético Morelia | |
| MF | Pietro Maiellaro | Palermo FC | |
| MF | José Manuel de la Torre | CD Guadalajara | |
| MF | Omar Arellano | CD Guadalajara | |
| FW | Martin Felix Ubaldi | Atlas FC | |
| FW | Sergio Almaguer | Correcaminos UAT | loan ended |
| FW | Sead Seferovic | Hadjuk Split | |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| FW | Mariano Varela | CD Guadalajara | |
| FW | Gustavo Napoles | CD Guadalajara | |
| GK | Martin Zuñiga | CD Guadalajara | |
| MF | Antonio Carlos Santos | CD Veracruz | |
| FW | Andre da Costa Maciel Gilson | | |
| GK | Alberto Aguilar | | |
| DF | Cesilio de los Santos | Puebla FC | |
| DF | Carlos Muñoz | | retired |
| DF | Miguel España | Santos Laguna | |
| MF | Marco Antonio Ruiz | CF Pachuca | loan |
| MF | Dante Juarez | CF Pachuca | |
| FW | Francisco Javier Cruz | Atlante FC | |
| DF | Carlos Diaz | CD Veracruz | |

#### Winter

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| MF | Marco Antonio Ruiz | CF Pachuca | loan ended |
| FW | Juan Antonio Flores Barrera | Atlético Morelia | |
| FW | Almir Turkovic | SK Vorwärts Steyr | |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To |
| DF | Roberto Ruiz Esparza | Necaxa |
| DF | Juan Carlos Ortega | Leon |
| MF | Jaime Pizarro | CD Palestino |

## Competitions
### La Liga
#### League table
##### Group 1

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Veracruz | 34 | 15 | 5 | 14 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 50 | Playoff |
| 2 | UANL | 34 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 49 | Playoff |
| 3 | Guadalajara | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 37 | 42 | −5 | 43 | |
| 4 | Santos | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 41 | 43 | −2 | 37 | |
| 5 | Toluca | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 33 | 45 | −12 | 37 | |

##### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | D | W | D | W | D | D | D | D | L | W | L | W | W | L | W | L | L | D | W | D | D | W | W | D | L | L | W | D | W | L | L | D | W |
| Position | 12 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 |

#### Relegation table

| Pos. | Team | Pts. | Pld. | Ave. |
| 14. | Atlante | 101 | 108 | 0.9352 |
| 15. | Toros Neza | 100 | 108 | 0.9259 |
| 16. | Puebla | 96 | 108 | 0.8889 |
| 17. | Morelia | 96 | 108 | 0.8889 |
| 18. | UANL | 91 | 108 | 0.8426 |

#### Quarterfinals
### Copa Mexico
#### Final
## Statistics
### Players statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Liga | Liga | Copa | Copa |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | URU | Siboldi | 34 | -38 | 34 | -38 |
| 3 | DF | MEX | Ayala | 31 | 4 | 31 | 4 |
| 4 | DF | MEX | Murguia | 33 | 1 | 33 | 1 |
| 20 | DF | MEX | Tinoco | 28 | 1 | 28 | 1 |
| 17 | DF | MEX | Gomez | 30 | 0 | 29 +1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | MEX | Arellano | 28 | 3 | 26 +2 | 3 |
| 21 | MF | MEX | Ruiz | 33 | 0 | 26 +7 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | MEX | Castañeda | 23 | 0 | 20 +3 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | MEX | Lozano | 31 | 6 | 28 +3 | 6 |
| 9 | FW | MEX | Almaguer | 27 | 7 | 25 +2 | 7 |
| 11 | FW | ARG | Ubaldi | 26 | 2 | 19 +7 | 2 |
| 12 | GK | MEX | Fuentes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | USA | Ramos | 23 | 2 | 18 +5 | 2 |
| 8 | MF | MEX | de la Torre | 22 | 3 | 15 +7 | 3 |
| 18 | FW | BIH | Seferovic | 16 | 3 | 9 +7 | 3 |
| 16 | DF | MEX | Muñoz | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | MEX | Flores Barrera | 15 | 2 | 4 +11 | 2 |
| 38 | MF | MEX | Peña | 6 | 1 | 4 +2 | 1 |
| 2 | DF | MEX | Esparza | 9 | 0 | 3 +6 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Maiellaro | 8 | 0 | 3 +5 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | MEX | Deeke | 11 | 0 | 2 +9 | 0 |
| 28 | FW | BIH | Turkovic | 7 | 1 | 2 +5 | 1 |
| 19 | MF | MEX | Bueno | 6 | 0 | 1 +5 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | MEX | Gonzalez | 1 | 0 | 0 +1 | 0 |
| 60 | FW | MEX | Oliva | 1 | 0 | 0 +1 | 0 |
| 70 | MF | MEX | Ayala | 1 | 0 | 0 +1 | 0 |
* Source: http://yalma.fime.uanl.mx/~futmx/MFL/Mex96/News/norte29jn95.html