All cats have 19 pairs of chromosomes (haploid), this includes the two sex chromosomes.These sex cells are the same ones that is used for human X and Y.
Lion belongs to the same family and therefore has 19 pairs of chromosomes.
Tigers and lions can create hybrid offspring but usually hybrids cannot
breed because their chromosome numbers are uneven.
For example, horses and donkeys can breed to produce the hybrid called a
mule. Horses have 62 chromosomes and donkeys have 64 (or the other way
around-I forget!). Their mule offspring have 63 chromosomes, an uneven
number. So if two mules tried to have babies, the chromosomes wouldn't line
up together at meiosis when creating eggs or sperm. So hybrids are usually
sterile.