Original Canterbury vintage rugby shirt Leicester Tigers 2008/09

Leicester Tigers (officially Leicester Football Club) is a professional rugby club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, the highest rugby division in England.

The club was founded in 1880 and has played its home games at Mattioli Woods Welford Road in the south of the city since 1892. The club has been known as the Tigers since 1885. In the 2022-2023 Premiership Rugby season, Tigers finished third, which entitled them to participate in the 2023-2024 European Rugby Champions Cup. The current head coach is Dan McKellar, who took up his role in the summer of 2023.

Leicester have won 21 major titles. They were European champions twice, back-to-back in 2001 and 2002; have won a record 11 English Championships, five RFU Knockout Cups and three Anglo-Welsh Cups, most recently in 2017. Leicester last won the Premiership Rugby title in the 2022 season and have featured in a record nine consecutive Premiership finals, from 2005 to 2013. Leicester are one of only three teams never to have been relegated from the top division. Leicester have appeared in five European finals, joint second overall, and during the two wins they have also lost the final three times, in 1997, 2007 and 2009. In 2021 they played in the final of the European Rugby Challenge Cup.