Kia Tigers

Kia Tigers

KIA Tigers Professional Baseball Club (Korean: 기아 타이거즈 프로야구단) is a Korean professional baseball team founded in 1982. The Tigers are a member team of the Korean Baseball Organization and the most successful team in Korean baseball having won the national championship, the Korean Series, ten times, with a perfect 10-0 series record and a 40-12-2 game record.

After the success of the 1980s and 1990s, the fortunes of the team began to turn, resulting in them finishing bottom of the league for the first time in 2005, and again in 2007. In 2009, However, Kia Tigers won the 2009 KBO season and 2009 Korean Series.

They were previously known as the Haitai Tigers (해태 타이거즈). Their home stadium is Mudeung Baseball Stadium in Gwangju.