Super Rugby Americas 2026 – Week 9 – ARN Guide

Week 9 of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026 takes place over the weekend of April 21-26. The four matches are spread over Friday to Sunday with the opening match being between the two leading teams this season. The three other SRA fixtures in week 9 also all have interest for Semi Finals possibilities.

Los Dogos play host to Los Pampas on Friday evening in Córdoba. It is the only Friday fixture in Week 9. There will be one Saturday fixture and two matches on Sunday. The Saturday clash sees Yacare at home against the in-form Selknam in Asunción.

The Sunday fixtures will be in São Paulo and Tucumán. Os Cobras play host to Los Capibaras while Los Tarucas play host to their reigning champions, Peñarol. The battle in Tucumán looms as a vital clash for competition points for both teams.

 

TEAM	GP	W	L	D	PF	PA	PD	BP	PTS
Pampas (Buenos Aires)	8	7	1	–	280	162	+128	8	36
Dogos (Córdoba)	8	7	1	–	232	169	+63	4	32
Capibaras (Rosario)	8	5	3	–	239	172	+67	5	26
Tarucas (Tucumán)	8	5	3	–	241	220	+21	3	23
Selknam (Santiago)	8	4	4	–	206	271	-65	3	22
Peñarol (Montevideo)	8	3	5	–	185	237	-52	4	16
Yacare (Asunción)	8	1	6	–	181	202	-21	7	11
Cobras (São Paulo)	8	1	7	–	158	308	-150	3	7

 

FRIDAY			Córdoba Athletic Club, Córdoba	8pm
SATURDAY			Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción	8pm
SUNDAY			Estádio Nicolau Alayon, São Paulo	3pm
SUNDAY			Estadio Héctor Cabrera, Tucumán	6pm

 

NOTES

• Los Dogos has a record of 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss  against Los Pampas.
• Hooker Juan Greising Revol is the leading SRA 026 try scorer with 9.
• Pumas wingers Santiago Pernas and Santiago Cordero return for Los Pampas. Dogos center, Faustino Sánchez Valarolo is the other Puma involved in the Friday fixture.
• Selknam and Peñarol can combine to end Argentine hegemony in the Top 4. This will require Selknam beating Yacare in Asunción and Peñarol upsetting Los Tarucas in Tucumán.
• Maximilano Schlesinger will make his SRA debut for Selknam.
• Os Cobras are at home for the third consecutive round.
• Los Capibaras arrive in São Paulo on the back of defeating Peñarol in Montevideo.
• Rugby World Cup 2023 Semi Finalist, Emiliano Boffelli will not debut for Capibaras in São Paulo. He is playing club rugby for Duendes this weekend.
• Matías Orlando, who has beaten the All Blacks twice, leads Los Tarucas against Peñarol.
• Peñarol continue with a Canadian connection. Ethan Fryer, and James Thiel will feature as replacements while Noah Flesch starts at inside center.

 

WEEK NINE – LINE-UPS

DOGOS
1 Nicolás Revol, 2 Juan Greising Revol, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Valentín Gozálvez, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Tomás Gómez González, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Facundo Pueyrredón, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Agustín Segura, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Tomás Montilla, 17 Juan Aguirre, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Lucio Willington, 20 Augusto Cugnini, 21 Genaro Podesta, 22 Giuliano Avaca, 23 Agustín de Vertíz

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

Replacements: 16 Francisco Lusarreta, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Ramiro Berardi Calvo, 19 Francisco Sluga, 20 Juan Penoucos, 21 Lucas Moresco, 22 Alejo Lavayén, 23 Estanislao Renthel

 

YACARE
1 Nicolás Toth, 2 Jordi Tobias Chavez, 3 Rodolfo Rivadeneira, 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 Sebastian Urbieta, 13 Ramiro Amarilla (capt.), 14 Arturo López, 15 Francisco Calello

Replacements: 16 Valentino Rocco Marciali Ríos, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Luis Enrique Quinteros, 19 Matías Muniagurria, 20 Francisco Luis Bareiro, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Francisco Gaspes, 23 Valentino Quattrochi

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 Lucas Berti, 10 Rodrigo Fernández, 11 Nicolás Saab, 12 Matías Garafulic, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 14 Manuel Bustamante, 15 Cristóbal Game

Replacements: 16 Norman Aguayo, 17 Salvador Luis, 18 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 19 Maximilano Schlesinger, 20 Martín Sigren, 21 Juan Sebastián Bianchi, 22 Ernesto Tchimino, 23 Nicolás Garafulic

 

COBRAS
1 João Lucas Marino, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 3 Lautaro Facundo, 4 Cleber Dias, 5 Hélder Lúcio, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Claudio, 8 Adrio de Melo (capt.), 9 Gustavo Gobeti , 10 João do Amaral, 11 Robert Tenório, 12 Dion Dumisani Khumalo, 13 Tasriq Mynhardt, 14 Robson Moraes, 15 Rosko Specman

Replacements: 16 João Guilherme Raspa Arraez, 17 Brendon Alves, 18 Leonel Moreno, 19 Henrique Ribeiro, 20 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 21 André Arruda, 22 Julian Leszczynski, 23 Sergio Luna

CAPIBARAS
1 Juan Ignacio Rodriguez, 2 Martín Vaca, 3 Enzo Fabrizio Avaca, 4 Lorenzo Colidio, 5 Franco Benítez, 6 Jerónimo Gómez Vara, 7 Felipe Vilagrán, 8 Manuel Bernstein (capt.), 9 Juan Lovell, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Gino DiCapua, 12 Bautista Estelles, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Lautaro Cipriani, 15 Franco Rossetto

Replacements: 16 Bernardo Lis, 17 Diego Correa, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Juan Huber, 20 Bautista Grenon, 21 Alejo Sugasti, 22 Santiago Vitola, 23 Ignacio Dogliani

 

TARUCAS
1 Francisco Palazzi, 2 José Calderon, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Miguel Mukidse, 9 Matías Sauze, 10 Ignacio Cerrutti, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Tomás Elizalde

Replacements: 16 Raúl Guraiib, 17 Ignacio Lazarte, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Joaquín Aguilar, 20 Thiago Sbrocco, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Stefano Ferro, 23 Nicolás Macome

PEÑAROL
1 Francisco Suárez, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Agustín Iglesias, 4 Felipe Aliaga (capt;), 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ardao, 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Manuel Diana, 9 Joaquín Suárez, 10. Justo Ferrario, 11 Santiago Marolda, 12 Noah Flesch, 13 Juan Manuel Alonso, 14 Ignacio Facciolo, 15 Nicolás Pittaluga

Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Jesús Porro, 19 Manuel Ponte, 20 Ethan Fryer, 21 Ícaro Amarillo, 22 Tomás Baca Castex, 23 James Thiel

 

WEEK NINE – MATCH OFFICIALS

VS
Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Simón Larrubia (Argentina); Agustín Altabe (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Esteban Filipanics (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: tba

VS
Referee: Francisco González (Uruguay)
Assistant Referees: Victor Hugo Barboza (Brazil); Federico Longobardi (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Manuel Martínez (Argentina); Pedro Lopez Vildosa (Argentina)