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
Primera C 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
Sincelejo, where they only lasted a year, returning to Cartagena in 2006. In the 2007 season the team moved to the city of
Fusagasugá,
Cundinamarca. The club's most notable participation in Colombian football occurred in the
2008 Copa Colombia in which the club reached the semi-finals. Expreso Rojo was eliminated by
Once Caldas at that stage, with a 1–0 aggregate score. In 2009 the team moved to
Zipaquirá 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
Soacha. 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 (
2016), the club was renamed as
Tigres F.C. due to a ruling by the
Superintendency of Industry and Commerce of Colombia stating that the
Expreso Rojo brand was already trademarked and linked to top-flight club
Independiente Santa Fe and therefore could not be used by any other company. In that season, they earned promotion to
Categoría Primera A for the
2017 season by winning Group A in the Primera B semi-finals. They became season runners-up after losing the final to
América de Cali on aggregate score. However, they were relegated back to Primera B after only one season in the top flight. ==Stadium==