Super Rugby Americas 2026 – Week Six – ARN Guide

Week six of the Super Rugby Americas (SRA) season kicks-off this Friday with two matches. It will continue with one Saturday fixture and conclude with a rare Monday match.

The opening fixture will be in Tucumán, Argentina. Los Tarucas have a prime opportunity of adding to their 4 wins thus far this season. The second match will be in Montevideo, Uruguay with Peñarol looking for their third win and Yacare their first. Both teams are outside of the play-off’s zone for the time being.

Santiago del Chile will be the setting for the Saturday SRA fixture. Selknam’s early-season form has been a roller-coaster with a humbling demolition defeat against Los Dogos followed by an impressive home win over Los Capibaras. The Chileans will be up against Los Pampas in a  mid-afternoon fixture.

Week six will conclude in Córdoba, Argentina on Monday. Los Dogos play host to Los Capibaras in the first SRA meeting ever between the teams. It is a professional battle between Córdoba and Rosario based sides, they are the second and third largest cities in Argentina respectively.

STANDINGS AFTER 5 ROUNDS

WEEK 6 – FIXTURES

FRIDAY			Estadio Héctor Cabrera, Tucumán	7pm
FRIDAY			Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo	9pm
SATURDAY			Saint George’s College, Santiago	3pm
MONDAY			Córdoba Athletic Club, Córdoba	8pm

• Professional rugby competition begins between Córdoba and Rosario based teams.
• Os Cobras travel to Tucumán in search of their first win against Los Tarucas. Los Tucumanos won the previous encounter 54-33 on the road.
• Former Olímpia Lions and Argentina XV fly half Máximo Ledesma is back in SRA from Italy. He starts for Los Tarucas five years after joining Rugby Lyons Piacenza. He is a local player from Natación y Gimnasia.
• Federico Longobardi will make his refereeing debut, doing so for Peñarol vs Yacare on Friday. He is an experienced assistant referee in SRA.
• Peñarol continue to invest in the future by giving youth opportunities. This philosophy comes with Uruguay seeking an expanded number of players to choose from for Rugby World Cup 2027. Examples include Manuel Rosmarino, Manuel Ponte Alejandro Molinas, Justo Ferrario, Alfonso Perillo Albaraccín, Sebastián Pérez, and Pedro Suárez.
• There is also room for Canadian players Noah Riley Ethan Fryer, and James Thiel in the Peñarol 23 and Argentine props Agustín Iglesias and Jesus Porro and backs Santiago Marolda and Tomás Baca Castex.
• Chilean tight-head prop, Iñaki Gurruchaga makes his 50th appearance for Selknam.
• Tobías Wade returns from injury to start at fullback for Los Pampas against Selknam in Chile.
• Agustín Toth from URBA club Lomas and Santiago Montagner from fellow URBA club Alumni start against the Buenos Aires-based Pampas.
• Former Los Dogos Head Coach Nicolás Galatro has unique insight heading into the historic first-ever SRA match between the Córdoba side and his rookie team, Los Capibaras whom he now coaches. Galatro also previously coached Los Cafeteros (Colombia)

WEEK SIX – LINE-UPS

TARUCAS
1 Mariano Muntaner, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Francisco Palazzi, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Tomás Dande, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Matías Sauze, 10 Máximo Ledesma, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Juan Pablo José Pfister, 15 Nicolás Maria Macome

Replacements: 16 José Calderoni Zenteno, 17 Benjamín Farías Cerioni, 18 Francisco Moreno, 19 Franco Marini Linares, 20 Miguel Roberto Mukdise, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Ignacio Cerruti, 23 Pedro Coll

COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Leonel Moreno, 4 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 5 Lúcio Hélder Souza, 6 Cleber Días, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 Adrio de Melo (capt.), 9 Zinedine Geraldo Booysen, 10 Julian Leszczynski, 11 Sergio Luna, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Tasriq Mynhardt, 14 Wilson Nascimento, 15 Rosco Specman

Replacements: 16 João Guilherme Raspa Arraez, 17 João Lucas Marino, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 Gabriel Henrique de Souza Oliveira, 20 André Arruda, 21 Maiki Santos, 22 Gustavo Gobeti, 23 Lucas Tranquez

PENAROL
1 Mateo Perillo, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Agustín Iglesias, 4 Felipe 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 Albaraccín, 13 Noah Riley Flesch, 14 Ignacio Facciolo Palesso, 15 Santiago Marolda

Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Francisco Suárez, 18 Jesus Porro, 19 Ethan Fryer, 20 Pedro Suárez, 21,  Joaquín Suárez 22 James Thiel, 23 Tomás Baca Castex

YACARE
1 Camilo Blasco, 2 Matías Agustín Benítez Scribano, 3 Gonzalo José del Pazo, 4 Mateo Gasparotti, 5 Joaquín Domínguez Herrera, 6 Manuel Todaro, 7 Ariel Núñez, 8 Juan Bautista Mernes, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Francisco Gaspes, 13 Ramiro Amarilla, 14 Francisco Calello, 15 Valentino Quattrochi

Replacements: 16 Valentino Rocco Marcialo Ríos, 17 Pérez Cesar, 18 Luis Enrique Quinteros, 19 Lautaro González Las Heras, 20 Francisco Luis Bareiro, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Sebastián Urbieta, 23 Joaquín Mussi

SELKNAM
1 Javier Carrasco, 2 Augusto Böhme, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 10 Rodrigo Fernández, 11 Álvaro Castro, 12 Matías Garafulic, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 14 Nicolás Saab, 15 Luca Strabucchi

Replacements: 16 Norman Aguayo, 17 Emilio Shea, 18 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 19 Bruno Sáez, 20 Ernesto Tchimino, 21 Sebastián Bianchi, 22 Felipe Méndez, 23 Clemente Armstrong

PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano (capt.), 2 Ignacio Bottazzini, 3 Marcos Camerlinckx, 4 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 5 Francisco Sluga, 6 Juan Penoucos, 7 Faustino Santarelli, 8 Juan Pedro Bernasconi, 9 Alejo Lavayén, 10 Bautista Farisé, 11 Santiago Cordero, 12 Juan Cruz Corso, 13 Agustín Fraga, 14 Santiago Pernas, 15 Tobías Wade.

DOGOS
1 Nicolás Revol Pitt, 2 Juan Greising Revol, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Abraham Elías, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Lautaro Simes, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Luciano Avaca, 12 Faustino Sanchez Valarolo, 13 Facundo Pueyrredón, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Ramiro Iglesias, 17 Francisco Aguirre, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Lucio Willington, 20 Gastón Garayzabal, 21 Genaro Podestá, 22 Facundo Rodríguez, 23 Mauricio Kember

CAPIBARAS
1  Diego Correa, 2 Bernardo Lis, 3 Enzo Avaca, 4 Lorenzo Colidio, 5 Lucas Bur, 6 Ignacio Gandini (capt.), 7 Felipe Villagrán, 8 Basilio Cañas, 9 Juan Lovell, 10 Ignacio Dogliani, 11 Franco Rossetto, 12 Benjamín Ordiz, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Lautaro Cipriani, 15 Francisco Lluch

Replacements: 16 Manuel Cuneo, 17 Ignacio Palillo, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Bautista Benavides, 20 Jerónimo Gómez Vara, 21 Ignacio Zabella, 22 Juan Bautista Baronio, 23 Guido Chesini

WEEK SIX – MATCH OFFICIALS

VS
Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Manuel Martínez (Argentina); Pedro López Vildosa (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Federico Longobardi (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Esteban Filipanics (Argentina); Armen Abi-Saab (Uruguay)

VS
Referee: Mauro Rossi (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Solari (Argentina); Sebastián Toledo (Chile)

VS
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Tomás Ninci (Argentina); Esteban Fipanics (Argentina)