Super Rugby Americas 2026 – Week 8 – ARN Guide

Week 8 of Super Rugby Americas sees the second half of the regular season beginning. The first seven rounds saw Argentine teams on top with the four franchises positioned in the top 4 at the mid-way point of the SRA regular season.

Week 8 features only one match in Argentina. It is the Friday fixture with leaders, Los Pampas at home against the 7th placed side, Yacare. It will be followed by two Sunday matches and one Monday fixture. The Sunday matches are to be played in Chile and Brazil while the Monday match will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay.

 

SRA STANDINGS

TEAM	GP	W	L	D	PF	PA	PD	BP	PTS
Pampas (Buenos Aires)	7	6	1	–	249	148	+101	7	31
Dogos (Córdoba)	7	6	1	–	232	169	+63	7	27
Tarucas (Tucumán)	7	5	2	–	228	183	+45	3	23
Capibaras (Rosario)	7	4	3	–	201	140	+61	5	21
Selknam (Santiago)	7	3	4	–	159	258	-99	2	17
Peñarol (Montevideo)	7	3	4	–	153	199	-46	2	14
Yacare (Asunción)	7	1	6	–	167	171	-4	7	11
Cobras (São Paulo)	7	1	6	–	139	260	-121	3	7

 

WEEK 8 – FIXTURES

FRIDAY 8pm			La Catedral	Buenos Aires
SUNDAY 3pm			Estádio Nicolau Alayon	São Paulo
SUNDAY 7pm			Saint George’s College	Santiago
MONDAY 8pm			Estadio Charrúa	Montevideo

 

NOTES

• The round opens with Los Pampas at home against Yacare. The Buenos Aires team has a 6-1 record thus far in SRA 2026. Their one defeat was against Los Dogos, the same team that lost against Yacare a week ago.
• Yacare are in search of their second win of the season. The Paraguayan team were healthy winners in week seven but enter the new round clouded in doubt due to revelations that the team may fold due to financial reasons.
• Yacare won the corresponding fixture in Buenos Aires in 2025.
• A Selknam win over Los Tarucas will boost the Chilean team’s Semi Final prospects.
• Martín Sigren and Nicolás Garafulic make their returns for Selknam. Both will play as replacements.
• Matías Orlando moves from outside center to inside center for Los Tucumanos.
• In a history-making moment, South African ⁠Rosko Specman captains Os Cobras in São Paulo.
• Fellow South Africans Tasriq Mynhardt, Zinedine Booyse and Mogomotsi Mokunyane join Specman in the XV as does Zimbabwean Dion Khumalo.
• Four Argentines will feature for Os Cobras: Julian Leszczynsk, Facundo Moreno, Santiago Bonavento, and Lautaro Facundo.
• Los Dogos have opted for a much changed side with rotation being a clear tactic. Giuliano Avaca has a first start at fly half.
• Peñarol start Ícaro Amarillo out of position at scrum-half. He has test caps at center and at fly half.
• Canadians Ethan Fryer, James Thiel and Noah Flesch will receive further SRA game-time for Peñarol.

 

WEEK EIGHT – LINE-UPS

PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano, 2 Ignacio Bottazzini, 3 Marcos Camerlinckx, 4 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 5 Marcelo Toledo, 6 Lucas Moresco, 7 Faustino Santarelli, 8 Juan Pedro Bernasconi, 9 Lucas Marguery (capt), 10 Bautista Fariséísmo, 11 Jeronimo Ulloa, 12 Felipe Ledesma, 13 Agustín Fraga, 14 Ignacio Díaz, 15 Tobias Wade

Replacements: 16 Francisco Lusarreta, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Ramiro Berardi Calvo, 19 Francisco Sluga, 20 Augusto Cabano Wall, 21 Alejo Lavayén, 22 Estanislao Renthel, 23 Alfonso Latorre

YACARE
1 Nicolás Toth, 2 Jordi Tobias Chavez, 3 Luís Enrique Quinteros, 4 Mateo Gasparotti, 5 Joaquín Domínguez Herrera, 6 Manuel Todaro, 7 Ariel Núñez, 8 Matías Muniagurria, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquin Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Francisco Gaspes, 13 Ramiro Amarilla (capt.), 14 Arturo López, 15 Francisco Calello

Replacements: 16 Matias Agustin Benitez, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Rodolfo Rivadeneira, 19 Juan Martín Sebriano, 20 Francisco Bareiro, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Sebastián Urbieta, 23 Valentino Quattrochi

 

COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Facundo Moreno, 4 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 5 Gabriel Oliveira, 6 Cleber Dias, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 André Arruda, 9 Zinedine Booyse, 10 Julián Leszczynski, 11 Robert Tenório, 12 Dion Khumalo, 13 Tasriq Mynhardt, 14 Sérgio Luna, 15 Rosko Specman (capt.)

Replacements: 16 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 17 Henrique Ferreira, 18 Lautaro Facundo, 19 Helder Lúcio, 20 Adrio de Melo, 21 Maiki Lemes, 22 Gustavo Gobetti, 23 João do Amaral

DOGOS
1 Juan Francisco Aguirre, 2 Juan Ignácio Greising Revol, 3 Galo Fernández, 4 Lucio Willington, 5 Valentín Gozalvez, 6 Lautaro Simes, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Giuliano Avaca, 11 Agustín de Vertiz, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Agustín Segura, 14 Facundo Pueyrredón, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Tomás Montilla, 17 Nicolás Revol, 18 Octávio Ignacio Filippa, 19 Enzo Ocampo, 20 Tomás González, 21 Genaro Podesta, 22 Manuel Carrara, 23 Ernesto Giudice

 

SELKNAM
1 Emilio Shea, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Lucas Berti, 10 Rodrigo Fernández, 11 Nicolás Saab, 12 Matías Garafulic, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 14 Manuel Bustamante, 15 Cristóbal Game

Replacements: 16 Benjamín Moreno, 17 Norman Aguayo, 18 Alan Pedrol, 19 Clemente Armstrong, 20 Martín Sigren, 21 Marcelo Torrealba, 22 Nicolás Garafulic, 23 Ernesto Tchimino

TARUCAS
1 Francisco Palazzi Barrientos, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas , 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Luciano Asevedo, 5 Ignacio Marquieguez, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 10 Ignacio Cerrutti, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Matías Orlando (capt.), 13 Bautista Estofan, 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Tomas Elizalde

Replacements: 16 Raul Enrique Guraiib, 17 Ignacio Lazarte, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Joaquín Aguilar, 20 Santiago Melitón Heredia, 21 Matías Sauze, 22 Stefano Ferro, 23 Nicolás María Macome

 

PENAROL
1 Francisco Suárez, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Jesús Porro, 4 Ethan Fryer, 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ardao, 7 Lucas Bianchi (capt.), 8 Manuel Diana, 9 Ícaro Amarillo, 10 Juan Francisco Pereira, 11 Tomás Baca Castex, 12 Noah Flesch, 13 Juan Manuel Alonso, 14 Santiago Marolda, 15 Nicolás Pittaluga

Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Agustín Iglesias, 19 José Ignacio Rodríguez, 20 Manuel Ponte, 21 Alejandro Molinas, 22 Alfonso Perillo, 23 James Thiel

CAPIBARAS
1 Diego Correa, 2 Martín Vaca, 3 Enzo Avaca, 4 Lorenzo Colidio, 5 Lucas Bur, 6 Ignacio Gandini (capt.), 7 Felipe Villgarán, 8 Manuel Bernstein, 9 Alejo Sugasti, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Gino Dicapua, 12 Bautista Estellés, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Lautaro Cipriani, 15 Franco Rossetto

Replacements: 16 Bernardo Lis, 17 Juan Ignacio Rodríguez, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Juan Segundo Huber, 20 Bautista Grenon, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Ignacio Doglini, 23 Santiago Vitola

 

WEEK EIGHT – MATCH OFFICIALS

VS
Referee: Tomás Ninci (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Pablo de Luca (Argentina); Luca Solda (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Sebastián Toledo (Chile)

VS
Referee: Nehuén Jauri Rivero (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Sergio Alvarenga (Paraguay); Nerea Livoni (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Gonzalo de Achával(Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Maio (Argentina); Arman Abi-Saab (Uruguay)