Super Rugby Americas 2026 – Week Two – ARN Guide

Week one of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) is in the history books. It saw a perfect four wins from Argentine teams. Os Cobras was the only non-Argentine competitor to come away with a bonus point in defeat. Will Argentine also dominate in week two?

Week two SRA action starts on Friday with Peñarol playing host to Los Tarucas in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is the reigning champions looking to rebound from a very underwhelming debut against debutants, Los Capibaras. Meanwhile, Los Tarucas are looking for more of the same after they started their SRA season very strongly against Selknam.

Selknam have home advantage in the first of three Saturday fixtures. The Chileans take-on Yacare in Santiago. Saturday action also sees Los Capibaras at home against Os Cobras and a derby in Buenos Aires between Los Pampas and Los Dogos.

 

SRA 2026 – STANDINGS

TEAM	GP	W	L	D	PF	PA	PD	BP	PTS
Tarucas (Tucumán)	1	1	0	–	41	13	+28	1	5
Capibaras (Rosario)	1	1	0	–	34	7	+27	1	5
Pampas (Buenos Aires)	1	1	0	–	30	17	+13	1	5
Dogos (Córdoba)	1	1	0	–	21	19	+2	–	4
Cobras (São Paulo)	1	0	1	–	19	21	-2	1	1
Yacare (Asunción)	1	0	1	–	17	30	-13	–	0
Peñarol (Montevideo)	1	0	1	–	7	34	-27	–	0
Selknam (Santiago)	1	0	1	–	13	41	-28	–	0

 

SRA 2026 – WEEK TWO – FIXTURES

2026-02-27			Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo	8pm
2026-02-28			Saint George’s College, Santiago	3pm
2026-02-28			Santa Fe	6:30pm
2026-02-28			La Catedral, San Isidro	8:30pm

 

NOTES

• Peñarol enter with sweeping changes in the forwards. Big names from World Cups are back including Manuel Diana and regular captain Felipe Aliaga.
• Elsewhere Mateo Perillo, Joaquín Myszka, Pedro Suárez, all start this week for Peñarol.
• Los Tarucas have made two changes: Tomás Dante starts at flanker and Estanlislao Presto starts at scrum-half. They replace Facundo Cardozo and Matías Sauze respectively.
• Peñarol’s scrum and lineout were notable failures in week one. Ivo Dugonjic notes that addressing them were key focus areas this week.
• Selknam center with a double change in the props with Norman Aguayo, and Baltazar Gurruchaga replacing Cóndores Salvador Lues and Iñaki Gurruchaga.
• Clemente Armstrong starts out of position at flanker. He has played wing and center previously for Selknam.
• Marcelo Torrealba is back for the first time since a serious injury in SRA 2025. He starts in the halves inside Rodrigo Fernández who is back in Chile after having played Serie A rugby in Italy.
• Backs have also moves positions, notably with Matías Garafulic playing inside center rather than fullback. This sees Nicolás Saab moving to the wing and a first start for Marco Alvano at fullback.
• Matías Muniagurria earns his first start for Yacare at N8.
• Ramiro Amarilla continues as captain from outside center. He will play again for Paraguay once he has completed 5 years residency. Other Yacare Argentines may too such as halves Juan Cruz Strada, and Joaquín Lamas who are now veterans in the Paraguayan team.
• Despite performing above expectations against Los Dogos, Os Cobras have a rotated line-up against Los Capibaras. For instance, João do Amaral arguably had his best match ever yet moves from fly half to fullback.
• Los Capibaras have made five changes. Ignacio Dogliani is rewarded for his performance in week one by replacing Juan Bautista Baronio at fly half. Baronio was somewhat erratic against Peñarol.
• Los Capibaras are 100% Argentine. Os Cobras have Santiago Bonavento, Facundo Moreno, Julián Leszczynski, and Lautaro Facundo from Argentina in their 23. They also have South Africans Zinedine Booysen, Ashwin Cox, Mogomotsi Mokunyane and Rosko Specman.
• Juan Manuel Leguizamón has named Marcelo Toledo to start in the second-row for Los Pampas. This sees Augusto Cabano Wall moving to his regular position of flanker while Faustino Santarelli drops to the replacements.
• Los Dogos enter with two changes. Lautaro Simes starts out of position at flanker, replacing Tomás González while Facundo Pueyrredón replaces Mauricio Kember at center.
• Puma Faustino Sánchez Valarolo captains Los Dogos. He and Santiago Pernas debuted for Argentina in July, 2025 against Uruguay. Santiago Cordero was also involved; he is not yet ready to play for Los Pampas.
• Tadeo Ledesma Arocena is set for his SRA debut. He is the son of former Pumas player and coach Mario Ledesma.
• Two Argentine officials will referee the four matches. Missing is Damian Schneider who is in France officiating Clermont vs Bayonne this weekend.

 

WEEK TWO – LINE-UPS

PENAROL
1 Mateo Perillo, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Agustín Iglesias, 4 Felipe Aliaga (capt.), 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ardao, 7 Pedro Suárez, 8 Manuel Diana, 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 Francisco Suárez, 18 Juan Francisco Bessio, 19 Bautista Cat, 20 Alex Sonneveld, 21 Francisco Lawlor, 22 Juan Francisco Pereira, 23 Alfonso Perillo

TARUCAS
1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Raul Guraiib, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Tomás Dante, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 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 Mukidse, 21 Santiago Saleme, 22 Maximo Ledesma, 23 Steffano Ferro

SELKNAM
1 Norman Aguayo, 2 Augusto Böhme, 3 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Clemente Armstrong, 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 10 Rodrigo Fernández, 11 Nicolás Saab, 12 Matías Garafulic, 13 Domingo Savedra (capt.), 14 Cristóbal Game, 15 Marco Alvano

Replacements: 16 Jorge Delgado, 17 Salvador Lues, 18 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 19 Bruno Sáez, 20 Joaquín Milesi, 21, Lucas Berti 22 Juan Cruz Reyes 23 Augusto Villanueva

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

Replacements: 16 Valentino Marciali, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Gonzalo del Pazo, 19 Juan Sebriano, 20 Juan Mernes, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Sebastián Urbieta, 23 Arturo López

 

CAPIBARAS
1 Diego Correa, 2 Manuel Cuneo, 3 Lisandro Dipierri, 4 Lorenzo Colidio, 5 Lucas Bur, 6 Ignacio Gandini, 7 Felipe Villagrán, 8 Manuel Bernstein (capt.), 9 Alejo Sugasti, 10 Ignacio Dogliani, 11 Franco Rossetto, 12 Guido Chesini, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Lautaro Cipriani, 15 Francisco Lluch

Replacements: 16 Federico Cescut, 17 Juan Ignacio Rodríguez, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Bautista Grenón, 20 Jerónimo Gómez Vara, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Juan Bautista Baronio, 23 Bautista Estellés

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

Replacements: 16 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 17 Henrique Ferreira, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 Gabriel Oliveira, 20 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 21 Maiki Lemes, 22 Ashwin Cox, 23 Robson Moraes

 

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

Replacements: 16 Tadeo Ledesma Arocena, 17 Valentín Vicente Vidal, 18 Marcos Camerlinckx, 19 Juan Penoucos, 20 Faustino Santarelli, 21 Alejo Lavayén, 22 Estanislao Renthel, 23 Nahuel Clausen

DOGOS
1 Francisco Aguirre, 2 Juan Greissing Revol, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Valentín Gozálvez, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Lautaro Simes, 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Agustín de Vertiz, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo (capt.), 13 Facundo Pueyrredón, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Alejandro Pronce, 17 Ramiro Iglesias, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Federico Rolotti, 20 Augusto Cugnini, 21 Genaro Podesta, 22 Facundo Rodríguez, 23 Agustín Segura

 

WEEK TWO – MATCH OFFICIALS

VS
Referee: Gonzalo de Achával (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nehuén Jauri Rivero; (Argentina); Armin Abi Saab (Uruguay)

VS
Referee: Pablo DeLuca (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: : Tomás Ninci (Argentina); Sebastián Toledo (Chile)

VS
Referee: Simón Larrubia (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nicolás Cotic (Argentina); Juan Maio (Argentina)

VS 
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Federico Solari (Argentina)