page_title: Leicester Tigers
section_title: Nickname
hierarchical_section_title: Leicester Tigers / Name and colours / Nickname
caption_attribution_description: English: Martin Johnson and Graham Rowntree during the friendly match between Bath and Leicester teams of 1996 that took place in 2007. Français&#160;: Martin Johnson and Graham Rowntree au cours du match amical entre les équipes de Bath et de Leicester de 1996, match qui a eu lieu en 2007.
context_page_description: Leicester Tigers are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby.
  The club was founded in 1880 and since 1892 plays its home matches at Welford Road Stadium in the south of the city. The club has been known by the nickname Tigers since at least 1885. In the 2018–19 Premiership Rugby season Tigers finished 11th, this entitled them to compete in the 2019-20 European Rugby Challenge Cup. The current director of rugby is Geordan Murphy, who was appointed as head coach in September 2018 before taking on his current role in July 2020.
  Leicester FC have won 20 major titles. They were European Champions twice, back-to-back in 2001 and 2002; have won a record 10 English Championships; and have won eight Anglo-Welsh Cups, most recently in 2017. Leicester last won the Premiership Rugby title in the 2013 and appeared in a record nine successive Premiership finals, from 2005 to 2013. Leicester are one of only four teams never to have been relegated from the top division.
context_section_description: The club's formal name is Leicester Football Club but is widely known by the nickname "Tigers".  The first known use of the name was after a game against Bedford School in February 1885, the Leicester Daily Post reporting that "the Tiger stripes were keeping well together". The origin of the nickname is uncertain most probably coming from the side's chocolate and yellow playing kit, but it may have come from the club's links to the Leicestershire Regiment, who had received the nickname 'Tigers' after serving in India, and from 1825 had worn a cap-badge with a 'royal' tiger to mark the connection.
  In their early years the side were also known as "The Death or Glory Boys" on account of their black shirts.
caption: Martin Johnson and Graham Rowntree in Tigers traditional colours during the friendly match vs. Bath in 2007.
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