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The fifth round of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026 will feature matches played from Friday to Sunday. The eight South American professional teams will all be in action. The opening clash is a battle of past champions as Peñarol travel to Córdoba to face Los Dogos.
Saturday sees struggling Selknam and Yacare both having home advantage. Selknam play host to SRA rookies, Los Capibaras while Yacare have moved their match against Los Tarucas to Corrientes, Argentina.
The Sunday fixture will be played in São Paulo. Os Cobras are looking for their second win of the SRA season. It will be a historic accomplishment should Os Cobras defeat the top-of-the-table Pampas.
 STANDINGS |
| TEAM | GP | W | L | D | PF | PA | PD | BP | PTS |
| Pampas (Buenos Aires) | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | 132 | 95 | +37 | 1 | 16 |
| Dogos (Córdoba) | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | 151 | 82 | +69 | 4 | 16 |
| Capibaras (Rosario) | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | 121 | 56 | +65 | 3 | 15 |
| Tarucas (Tucumán) | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | 120 | 100 | +20 | 1 | 13 |
| Peñarol (Montevideo) | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | 103 | 109 | -6 | 2 | 10 |
| Selknam (Santiago) | 4 | 1 | 3 | – | 74 | 181 | -107 | 2 | 6 |
| Cobras (São Paulo) | 4 | 1 | 3 | – | 72 | 132 | -60 | 1 | 5 |
| Yacare (Asunción) | 4 | 0 | 4 | – | 80 | 98 | -18 | 4 | 4 |
| WEEK 5 – FIXTURES |
| FRIDAY |  |
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Córdoba Athletic Club, Córdoba | 8pm |
| SATURDAY |  |
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Saint George’s College, Santiago | 3pm |
| SATURRDAY |  |
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Aranduroga Rugby Club, Corrientes | 4:45pm |
| SUNDAY |  |
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Estádio Nicolau Alayon, São Paulo | 3pm |
| NOTES |
- Noah Flesch will become the first Canadian to play for Peñarol; he starts at outside center. Countrymen, Ethan Fryer and James Thiel are set on make their debuts as replacements.
- Los Dogos are coming off a phenomenal 68-0 home win over Selknam.
- Ernesto Giúdice moves to inside center in place of missing Dogos captain, Faustino Sánchez Valarolo.
- Peñarol has won 6 of their past 7 matches against Los Dogos. The only previous Dogos win vs Peñarol was 27-12 in Montevideo in 2024.
- Selknam face Los Capibaras for the first time. The occasion is also to be Los Capibaras’ first match in Chile.
- The Chilean side has notable reinforcements this week including Rodrigo Fernández and Alfonso Escobar.
- The experience of Matías Garafulic and Domingo Saavedra are reunited in the centers.
- Gastón Rogé will be involved as an SRA official for the first time in his career.
- Loose Head Matías Medrano captains Los Pampas for the first-time.
- Juan Cruz Pérez Rachel, Lucas Marguery and Tobías Wade are missing to injuries.
- Ignacio Díaz will debut for Los Pampas while Mar del Plata’s Ramiro Manzo awaits his first SRA opportunity from the replacements bench.
- Los Pampas are undefeated against Os Cobras. The 2025 results were a 78-18 win in São Paulo and a 72-14 victory in Buenos Aires.
| WEEK FIVE – LINE-UPS |
DOGOS
1 Nicolás Revol Pitt, 2 Juan Greissing Revol, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Valentín Gozálvez, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Lucio Willington, 7 Lautaro Simes, 8 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Luciano Avaca, 12 Ernesto Giúdice, 13 Facundo Pueyrredón, 14 Agustín de Vertiz, 15 Mateo Soler
Replacements: 16 Ramiro Iglesias, 17 Alejandro Pronce, 18 Francisco Aguirre, 19 Federico Rolotti, 20 Gastón Garayzabal, 21 Genaro Podestá, 22 Facundo Rodríguez, 23 Agustín Segura
PENAROL
1 Mateo Perillo, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Agustín Iglesias, 4 Felipa Aliaga (capt.), 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ponte, 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Manuel Ardao, 9 Alejandro Molinas, 10 Justo Ferrario, 11 Juan Manuel Alonso, 12 Alfonso Perillo, 13 Noah Flesch, 14 Ignacio Facciolo, 15 Santiago Marolda
Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Francisco Suárez, 18 Jesus Porro, 19 José Ignacio Rodríguez, 20 Ethan Fryer, 21 Pedro Súarez, 22 Joaquín Súarez Soto, 23 James Thiel
SELKNAM
1 Salvador Lues, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Clemente Saavedra, 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 10 Rodrigo Fernández, 11 Alvaro Castro, 12 Matías Garafulic, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 14 Nicolás Saab, 15 Luca Strabucchi
Replacements: 16 Jorge Delgado, 17 Emilio Shea, 18 Alan Pedrol, 19 Bruno Sáez, 20 Augusto Villanueva, 21 Juan Sebastián Bianchi, 22 Felipe Méndez, 23 Clemente Armstrong
CAPIBARAS
1 Diego Correa, 2 Manuel Cuneo, 3 Lisandro Dipierri, 4 Franco Benítez, 5 Lucas Bur, 6 Ignacio Gandini (capt.), 7 Jerónimo Gómez Vara, 8 Basilio Cañas, 9 Alejo Sugasti, 10 Ignacio Dogliani, 11 Franco Rossetto, 12 Guido Chesini, 13 Bautista Estellés, 14 Gino Dicapua, 15 Francisco Lluch
Replacements: 16 Bernardo Lis, 17 Ignacio Palillo, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Bautista Benavides, 20 Bautista Grenón, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Juan Bautista Baronio, 23 Bruno Heit
YACARE
1 Nicolás Toth, 2 Jordi Chávez, 3 Gonzalo del Pazo, 4 Lautaro González Las Heras, 5 Joaquín Domínguez, 6 Mateo Gasparotti, 7 Ariel Núñez, 8 Manuel Todaro, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Arturo López, 12 Sebastian Urbieta, 13 Ramiro Amarilla (capt.), 14 Facundo Paiva, 15 Franco Calello
Replacements: 16 Matías Benítez, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Luis Enrique Quinteros, 19 Juan Bautista Mernes, 20 Francisco Luis Bareiro, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Francisco Gaspes, 23 Valentino Quattrochi
TARUCAS
1 Mariano Muntaner, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Rodrigo Navarro, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Acevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Miguel Mukdize, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Matías Sauze, 10 Ignacio Cerutti, 11 Mateo Pasquini, 12 Pedro Coll, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Juan Pablo José Pfister, 15 Tomás Elizalde
Replacements: 16 José Calderón, 17 Benjamín Garrido, 18 Francisco Moreno, 19 Franco Marini, 20 Tomás Dande, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Simón Pfister, 23 Bautista Estofan
COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Facundo Moreno, 4 Helder Bryan, 5 Gabriel Oliveira, 6 Adrio de Melo, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 André Arruda, 9 Ashwin Cox, 10 Julián Leszczynski, 11 Robert Tenório, 12 Dion Khumalo, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 Tasriq Mynhardt, 15 Rosko Specman
Replacements: 16 Nicholas Sydorowitz, 17 João Marino, 18 Lautaro Facundo, 19 Cleber Dias, 20 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 21 Maiki Lemes, 22 Zinedine Booysen, 23 Lucas Tranquez
PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano (capt.), 2 Francisco Lusarreta, 3 Valentín Vicente Vidal, 4 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 5 Francisco Sluga, 6 Juan Penoucos, 7 Faustino Santarelli, 8 Lucas Moresco, 9 Alejo Lavayén, 10 Bautista Farisé, 11 Alfonso Latorre, 12 Juan Cruz Corso, 13 Felipe Ledesma, 14 Ignacio Díaz, 15 Estanislao Renthel
Replacements: 16 Ignacio Bottazzini, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Ramiro Berardi Calvo, 19 Marcelo Toledo, 20 Augusto Cabano Wall, 21 Ramiro Manzo, 22 Agustín Fraga, 23 Jerónimo Ulloa
| WEEK FIVE – MATCH OFFICIALS |
VS
Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Tomás Ninci (Argentina); Agustín Altabe (Argentina)
VS
Referee: Esteban Filipanics (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Cauã Ricardo (Brazil); Sebastián Toledo (Chile)
VS
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Sergio Alvarenga (Paraguay)
VS
Referee: Nehuén Jauri Rivero (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Gastón Rogé (Argentina); Victor Hugo Barboza (Brazil)
