Super Rugby Americas 2026 – Week One – ARN Guide

The opening round of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026 has arrived. The South American professional league begins for 2026 in Tucumán, Argentina. Los Tarucas play host to Selknam in the season opener. It was to be game two after Los Dogos vs Os Cobras but a has seen the match moved to Monday.

The changed day of the aforementioned match means SRA will have a Super Saturday with three league matches being played. All eight of the SRA teams will begin their 2026 campaigns looking for a strong start to the new season.

SRA 2026 comes with teams, staff and players lacking the pressure from 2025 as the Rugby World Cup Qualifiers have come and gone. They saw Chile and Uruguay joining Argentina at  the Australia hosted tournament.

SRA 2026 is the sixth season of the South American professional league. Changes from 2025 see the arrival of a new franchise from Argentina: Los Capibaras. The Rosario-based side is the fourth from Argentina which means Argentine teams account for 50% of the franchises for the first-time.

Los Capibaras debut at home against the most successful team in the history of SRA Peñarol. The fixture will be the fourth, and final, match of the opening week of the season. It will be one of three matches in Argentina in week one.

 

SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2026 – WEEK ONE

2026-02-20			Estadio Héctor Cabrera, Tucumán
2026-02-21			Córdoba Athletic Club, Córdoba
2026-02-21			Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
2026-02-21			Hipodromo de Rosario, Rosario

 

NOTES

• A strike has seen the season opening fixture moved from Friday to Monday in Córdoba, Argentina.
• Os Cobras have five South Africans in their 23: Zinedine Booysen, Ashwin Cox, Mogomotsi Mokunyane, Tasriq Mynhardt, and Rosko Specman. All are debutants.
• There are also four Argentines in Os Cobras 23: Santiago Bonavento, Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, Julián Leszczynski, Facundo Moreno.
• All 23 named for Los Dogos are Argentines. The captain is Faustino Sánchez Valarolo who debuted for Los Pumas vs Uruguay in Salta in July, 2026. Fellow Pumas center, Matías Orlando, will debut for Los Tarucas.
• Dogos debutant Enzo Ocampo had an outstanding season for Los Cafeteros Pro back in 2021.
• Tomás Elizalde completes the move from los Pumas 7’s to start at fullback for Los Tarucas.
• Alfonso Escobar and Salvador Lues make their 50th SRA appearances for Selknam.
• Lucas Berti and Alan Pedrol debut for Selknam as does Argentine Santiago Montagner.
• 21 of Selknam’s 23 players are Chileans. Santiago Montagner and Agustín Toth are Argentines.
• Despite the eligibility saga from 2025, Ramiro Amarilla is now captain of Yacare.
• Amarilla is one of a number of Argentines in the Yacare line-up. Joaquín Lamas is back for a third year while Valentino Quatrocchi and Nicolás Toth are rookies.
• Agustín Fraga and Tobías Wade have made the transition from Los Pumas 7’s to Los Pampas.
• Wade is on debut for Los Pampas as are Ramiro Berardi Calvo, Augusto Cabano Wall, Faustino Santarelli, Lucas Marguery, Bautista Farisé, Felipe Ledesma, Agustín Fraga and replacements Valentín Vicente Vidal, Marcos Camerlinckx, Francisco Sluga and Alejo Lavayén.
• Bautista Farisé is back home in Argentina. He was a SRA champion in 2025 with Peñarol.
• Debutants Los Capibaras are led by Manuel Bernstein who moves to N8. He was flanker for Los Pampas and previously also a second-rower in SRA.
• Bernstein, Lucas Bur and Jeronimo Gómez Vara are back playing precisely where they did for Los Pumitas at the 2019 World Rugby u20 Championship. They were teammates 6 years ago at the Hipódromo with contemporary Pumas Thomas Gallo, Juan Martín González, Gonzalo García, Gerónimo Prisciantelli, Ignacio Mendy, Santiago Chocobares, Mateo Carreras, and Rodrigo Isgró.
• Enzo Avaca is back in Argentina following his time at Benetton in the United Rugby Championship (URC). Others are back from Pro D2 and Major League Rugby (MLR).
• Peñarol’s new-look team sees teenager Justo Ferrario starting at fly half.
• Joaquín Myszka, Lucas Bianchi, Ignacio Facciolo are the only three surviving Peñarol starting players from the 2025 SRA Final.
• There will be no TMO in SRA 2026. This marks a change from past seasons.
• Red Cards this season will follow the 20 minute ruling.

 

WEEK ONE – LINE-UPS

TARUCAS
1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Raul Guraiib, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Matías Sauze, 10 Ignacio Cerruti, 11 Mateo Pasquini, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Tomás Vanni, 15 Tomás Elizalde

Replacements: 16 José Calderoni, 17 Mariano Muntaner, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Franco Marini, 20 Miguel Mukdise, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Maximo Ledesma, 23 Pedro Coll

SELKNAM
1 Salvador Lues, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Bruno Sáez, 6 Augusto Villanueva, 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Sebastián Bianchi, 10 Tomás Salas, 11 Luca Strabucchi, 12 Nicolás Saab, 13 Domingo Saavedra (capt.), 14 Cristobal Game, 15 Matías Garafulic

Replacements: 16 Jorge Delgado, 17 Norman Aguayo, 18 Alan Pedrol, 19 Agustín Toth, 20 Joaquín Milesi, 21 Clemente Armstrong, 22  Lucas Berti, 23 Marco Alvano

 

 

YACARE
1 Nicolas Toth, 2 Jordi Chávez, 3 Enrique Quinteros, 4 Mateo Gasparotti, 5 Matías Munigurría, 6 Manuel Todaro, 7 Ariel Núñez, 8 Juan Mernes, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Francisco Gaspes, 13 Ramiro Amarilla (capt.), 14 Francisco Calello, 15 Valentino Quatrocci

Replacements: 16 César Pérez, 17 Valentino Marciali, 18 Gonzalo Del Pazo, 19 Joaquín Domínguez, 20 Juan Sebriano, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Sebastián Urbieta, 23 Arturo López

PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano, 2 Ignacio Bottazzini, 3 Ramiro Berardi Calvo, 4 Augusto Cabano Wall, 5 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 6 Juan Cruz Pérez Rachel, 7 Faustino Santarelli, 8 Juan Pedro Bernasconi, 9 Lucas Marguery, 10 Bautista Farisé, 11 Jerónimo Ulloa, 12 Felipe Ledesma, 13 Agustín Fraga, 14 Santiago Pernas, 15 Tobías Wade

Replacements: 16 Francisco Lusarreta, 17 Valentín Vicente Vidal, 18 Marcos Camerlinckx, 19 Francisco Sluga, 20 Juan Penoucos, 21 Alejo Lavayén, 22 Estanislao Renthel, 23 Nahuel Clausen

 

 

CAPIBARAS
1 Diego Correa, 2 Manuel Cuneo, 3 Enzo Avaca, 4 Lorenzo Colidio, 5 Lucas Bur, 6 Ignacio Gandini, 7 Jerónimo Gómez Vara, 8 Manuel Bernstein, 9 Alejo Sugasti, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Franco Rossetto, 12 Guido Chesini, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Gino DiCapua, 15 Tomás Sigura

Replacements: 16 Federico Cescut, 17 Juan Ignacio Rodríguez, 18 Lisandro Dipierri, 19 Ignacio Gallo, 20 Felipe Villagrán, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Ignacio Dogliani, 23 Bautista Estellés

PENAROL
1 Francisco Suárez, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Agustín Iglesias, 4 Bautista Cat, 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Pedro Suárez, 7 Lucas Bianchi (capt.), 8 Manuel Ardao, 9 Alejandro Molinas, 10 Justo Ferrario, 11 Ignacio Facciolo, 12 Joaquín Suárez, 13 Juan Manuel Alonso, 14 Tomás Baca Castex, 15 Santiago Marolda

Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Juan Francisco Besso, 19 José Ignacio Rodríguez, 20 Ignacio Merli, 21 Francisco Lawlor, 22 Ícaro Amarillo, 23 Alfonso, Perillo

 

 

DOGOS
1 Francisco Aguirre, 2 Juan Greising Revol, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Valentín González, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Tomás Gómez González, 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Agustín de Vertiz, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo (capt.), 13 Mauricio Kember, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Alejandro Pronce, 17 Ramiro Iglesias, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Federico Rolotti, 20 Augusto Cuginini, 21 Genaro Podestá, 22 Facundo Rodríguez, 23 Facundo Pueyrredón

COBRAS
1 João Lucas Marino, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Facundo Moreno, 4 Cleber Dias, 5 Helder Lúcio, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 André Arruda, 9 Zinedine Booysen, 10 João do Amaral, 11 Tasriq Mynhardt, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 Sérgio Luna, 15 Rosko Specman

Replacements: 16 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 17 Henrique Ferreira, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 20 Adrio de Melo,  21 Maiki Lemes, 22 Ashwin Cox, 23 Julián Leszczynski

 

WEEK ONE – MATCH OFFICIALS

VS
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nicolás Cotic (Argentina); Pedro López Vildoza (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Francisco González (Uruguay)
Assistant Referees: Cauã Ricardo (Brazil); Mauro Rossi (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Solari (Argentina); Luca Solda (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Gonzalo de Achával (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Tomás Ninci (Argentina)