Super Rugby Americas 2026 – Week Seven – ARN Guide

After a break for the Easter Holidays, Super Rugby Americas (SRA) returns with a full round from April 10 to 13. It will be week seven of the SRA season. The round sees a spreading of the four league matches from Friday through Monday.

Game one will be played in Buenos Aires with Los Pampas looking to remain top of the table as they take-on the reigning champions, Peñarol. Saturday’s one game will be in Paraguay with Yacare at home against Los Dogos.

Sunday’s match will see Os Cobras at home against Selknam in São Paulo. The final match of week seven is the historic first meeting between Los Tarucas and Los Capibaras.

 

SRA STANDINGS

TEAM	GP	W	L	D	PF	PA	PD	BP	PTS
Dogos (Córdoba)	6	5	1	–	212	128	+84	6	26
Pampas (Buenos Aires)	6	5	1	–	215	145	+70	6	26
Tarucas (Tucumán)	6	5	1	–	200	144	+56	3	23
Capibaras (Rosario)	6	3	3	–	162	112	+50	4	16
Peñarol (Montevideo)	6	3	3	–	150	165	-15	2	14
Selknam (Santiago)	6	2	4	–	132	232	-100	2	13
Yacare (Asunción)	6	0	6	–	126	151	-25	6	6
Cobras (São Paulo)	6	1	5	–	113	233	-120	1	5

 

WEEK 7 – FIXTURES

FRI 8pm			La Catedral, San Isidro
SAT 3pm			Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
SUN 3pm			Estádio Nicolau Alayon, São Paulo
MON 8pm			Hipódromo Independencia, Rosario

 

NOTES

• Benetton-bound Matías Medrano starts for Los Pampas against Peñarol.
• A pair of Pumas wingers, Santiago Cordero and Santiago Pernas, start for Los Pampas against Peñarol. The Uruguayans have two test wingers starting; one is Juan Manuel Alonso at inside center.
• Both Peñarol starting props are from Argentina.
• Ethan Fryer becomes the first Canadian to start second-row for a South American professional rugby team. He replaces regular captain Felipe Aliaga who sits out the match. This also sees flanker Lucas Bianchi named as skipper.
• Tomás Montilla is back in Argentina from Italy. He will feature for Los Dogos as the team’s replacement hooker.
• Puma Faustino Sanchez Valarolo starts at inside center for Los Cordobeses.
• An historic Zimbabwean-South African combination line-up for Os Cobras as the centers against Selknam.
• The Brazilian team will also face Selknam with a South African-Argentine halves combination.
• Os Cobras and Selknam both have Argentines in their starting formations. Os Cobras enter with Facundo Moreno, and Julián Leszczynski. Selknam enter with Agustín Toth and Santiago Montagner plus the Chilean-capped Juan Cruz Reyes who is from Mendoza.
• André Arruda makes his 50th appearance for Os Cobras.
• Martín Vaca makes his debut for Los Capibaras. He formerly played SRA for Los Jaguares and has played Pro D2 and Major League Rugby.
• Manuel Bernstein returns to captain Los Capibaras.
• Los Tarucas have confirmed that Benjamín Garrido is out for the season with an anterior cruciate ligament rupture of the left knee.

 

WEEK SEVEN – LINE-UPS

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

Replacements: 16 Francisco Lusarreta, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Ramiro Berardi Calvo, 19 Marcelo Toledo, 20 Lucas Moresco, 21 Alejo Lavayén, 22 Estanislao Renthel, 23 Jerónimo Ulloa

PENAROL
1 Francisco Suárez Soto, 2 Joaquin Myszka, 3 Jesus Porro, 4 Ethan Fryer, 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ardao, 7 Lucas Bianchi (capt.), 8 Manuel Diana, 9 Alejandro Molinas, 10 Justo Ferrario, 11 Tomás Baca Castex, 12 Juan Manuel Alonso, 13 Noah Riley, 14 Ignacio Facciolo, 15 Santiago Marolda

Replacements: 16 Foster Dewitt, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Agustín Iglesias, 19 José Ignacio Rodriguez, 20 Manuel Ponte, 21 Ícaro Amarillo, 22 Mateo Acosta, 23 Nicolás Pittaluga

 

YACARE
1 Nicolas Toth, 2 Jordi Tobias Chavez, 3 Rodolfo Rivadeneira, 4 Marteo 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 (capt.), 14 Arturo López, 15 Francisco Calello

Replacements: 16 Valentino Rocco Rios, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Luís Enrique Quinteros, 19 Matías Muniagurria, 20 Francisco Luis Bareiro, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Sebastián Urbieta, 23 Joaquín Mussi

DOGOS
1 Ezequiel Bustos López, 2 Juan Ignacio Revol, 3 Octavio Ignacio Filippa, 4 Valentin Gozalvez, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Gaston Garayzabal, 7 Lautaro Simes, 8 Valentin Cabral (capt.), 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Facundo Pueyrredón, 11 Agustin De Vertiz, 12 Faustino Sanchez Valarolo, 13 Agustín Segura, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Tomás Montilla, 17 Juan Aguirre, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Tomás Maria Gómez González, 20 Genaro Fissore, 21 Genaro Podesta, 22 Giuliano Avaca, 23 Ernesto Giudice

 

COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Leonel Moreno, 4 Cleber Dias, 5 Hélder Lúcio, 6 Adrio de Melo (capt.), 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 André Arruda, 9 Zinedine Booysen, 10 Julián Leszczynski, 11 Robert Tenório, 12 Dion Khumalo, 13 Tasriq Mynhardt, 14 Sérgio Luna, 15 Rosko Specman

Replacements: 16 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 17 João Lucas Marino, 18 Lautaro Facundo, 19 Gabriel Oliveira, 20 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 21 Maike Lemes, 22 Gustavo Gobeti, 23 Lucas Tranquez

SELKNAM
1 Emilio Shea, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Marcelo Torrealba, 10 Juan Cruz Reyes, 11 Manuel Bustamante, 12 Matías Garafulic, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 14 Nicolás Saab, 15 Cristobal Game

Replacements: 16 Benjamín Moreno, 17 Javier Carrasco, 18 Alan Pedrol, 19 Bruno Sáez, 20 Ernesto Tchimino, 21 Juan Bianchi, 22 Gonzalo Lara, 23 Clemente Armstrong

 

CAPIBARAS
1 Diego Correa, 2, Martín Vaca, 3 Enzo Avaca, 4 Lorenzo Colidio, 5 Lucas Bur, 6 Ignacio Gandini (capt.), 7 Felipe Vilagrán, 8 Manuel Bernstein, 9 Alejo Sugasti, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Franco Rosetti, 12 Guido Chesini, 13 Bautista Estelles, 14 Lautaro Cipriani, 15 Francisco Lluch

Replacements: 16 Manuel Cuneo, 17 Juan Ignacio Rodríguez, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Juan Huber, 20 Basilio Cañas, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Bruno Heit, 23 Benjamín Ordiz

TARUCAS
1 Mariano Muntaner, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Luciano Acevedo, 5 Ignacio Marquieguez, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Tomás Dande, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 10 Ignacio Cerruti, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Pedro Coll, 13 Matías Orlando, 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Tomás Elizalde

Replacements: 16 José Calderoni Zenteno, 17 Benjamín Farías Cerioni, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Joaquín Aguilar, 20 Miguel Mukdise, 21 Matías Sauze, 22 Máximo Ledesma Alfaro, 23 Stefano Ferro

 

WEEK SIX – MATCH OFFICIALS

VS
Referee: Tomás Bertazza(Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Cauã Ricardo (Brazil); Simón Larrubia (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Damián Schneider(Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Raimundo Fuenzalida (Chile); Adrián Bogado (Paraguay)

VS
Referee: Gonzalo de Achával (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Víctor Hugo Barboza (Brazil)

VS
Referee: Juan Sebastián Maio (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Manuel Martínez (Argentina); Juan Vega (Argentina)