Super Rugby Americas 2026 – Week 12 – ARN Guide

After a bye weekend, Super Rugby Americas (SRA) returns with a full round of fixtures. Week 12 of the SRA season features four matches all of with come with implications for the play-offs. The matches will be played on Friday and Saturday.

Week 12 opens with Los Pampas at home against Os Cobras at La Catedral in Buenos Aires. Los Pampas are in tied with Los Capibaras for 2nd spot on 40 points and Os Cobras are bottom on 10. On the one hand, the home side is pushing for the maximum five competition points. On the other hand, Os Cobras are looking to overtake Yacare who have 13 points at present.

Game two of Week 12 will also be on Friday evening. It sees Peñarol at home against Los Dogos in Montevideo. Los Dogos are top of the table and are the only team this far confirmed for the play-offs. Peñarol are the defending champions but are down in 6th position. Peñarol have 27 points while Los Tarucas have 29 and Selknam is on 34.

Game three will be the first of two Saturday match-ups. It is an afternoon battle with Los Capibaras hosting Selknam. The match will take SRA to a new location as Club Atlético Estudiantes em Tortuguitas (CAE) in Paraná hosts the fixture. It is the match of the round based on where the two teams sit in the standings.

The round will close out with Los Tarucas playing host to Yacare in Tucumán. The home side is desperate for a win to follow the impressive away win over Los Pampas in Buenos Aires in Week 11. A win over Yacare is needed for Los Tarucas to push towards returning to the Semi Finals zone and not falling further behind Selknam nor being overtaken by Peñarol.

SRA STANDINGS

SRA WEEK 12 – FIXTURES

FRIDAY			La Catedral, San Isidro	7pm
FRIDAY			Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo	9pm
SATURDAY			Club Atlético Estudiantes, Paraná	4pm
SATURDAY			Estadio Héctor Cabrera, Tucumán	8pm

NOTES

• Rugby World Cup 2015 Puma, Santiago Cordero captains Los Pampas for the first time in SRA.
• Los Pampas are on a losing streak after falling to Los Dogos, Los Capibaras, and Los Tarucas.
• Both Los Capibaras and Los Pampas can qualify for the Semi Finals by securing five competition points.
• Reinaldo Piussi is back in Uruguay from Civitavecchia (Italy) and will play his first SRA match of the season.
• The most called Uruguayan prop of all time, Mateo Sanguinetti makes his SRA 2026 debut after sitting out the season until now.
• Foster Douglas Dewitt debuts for Peñarol. Fellow Canadians James Thiel and Ethan Fryer are also in the 23. This is in addition to Ethan Turner playing scrum-half for Os Cobras and Austin Creighton featuring as the replacement hooker for the Brazilian side.
• Nicolás Roger debuts for Los Dogos as a replacement. He earned 3 caps for Los Pumas in 2026. In addition, Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, who debuted against Uruguay last July starts at inside center.
• Capibaras vs Selknam will be the 250th professional rugby match in South America. ARN has covered all of them
• Los Capibaras’ match at CAE is a home game for Felipe Villagrán, Bruno Heit and Franco Rossetto. CAE is an important rugby club. It produced Pumas including Javier Ortega Desio and Martín Gaitán who played for Argentina at Rugby World Cups 2019 and 2003 respectively.
• Martín Castrogiovaani is also from CAE. He was not a product of Italian rugby nor is he from Italy.
• Clemente Saavedra moves from flanker to second-row for Selknam.
• Raimundo Martínez is back from France and named to cover flanker. He played hooker for Bourgoin.
• Ariel Núñez captains a much changed Yacare line-up with starts for Gonzalo Bareiro, Valentino Quattrochi, and Rafael Bareiro in the backs.

SRA WEEK 12 – LINE-UPS

PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano, 2 Francisco Lusarreta, 3 Valentín Vicente Vidal, 4 Agustín Cabano Wall, 5 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 6 Juan Penoucos, 7 Lucas Moresco, 8 Juan Pedro Bernasconi, 9 Alejo Lavayen, 10 Estanislao Renthel, 11 Ignacio Díaz, 12 Bautista Farisé, 13 Agustín Fraga, 14 Alfonso Latorre, 15 Santiago Cordero (capt.)

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Bottazzini, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Marcos Camerlinckx, 19 Marcelo Toledo, 20 Joaquin Pascual Viale, 21 Juan Viale, 22 Santiago Pernas, 23 Nahuel Clausen

COBRAS
1 Henrique Ribeiro, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 4 Cléber Días, 5 Hélder Lúcio, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 André Arruda, 9 Ethan Turner, 10 João do Amaral, 11 Robert Tenório, 12 Dion Dumisani Khumalo, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 Tasriq Mynhardt, 15 Rosko Specman

Replacements: 16 Austin Creighton, 17 Brendon Alves, 18 Nicolas Alkmin Ferreira, 19 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 20 Pedro Henrique Soares Aparecido, 21 Robson Alves, 22 Julian Leszczynski, 23 Gustavo Gobeti Bilecki

PENAROL
1 Mateo Perillo Albarracin, 2 Joaquin Myszka, 3 Reinaldo Piussi, 4 Felipe Aliaga (capt.), 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ardao, 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Manuel Diana, 9 Joaquin Suarez , 10 Justo Ferrario, 11 James Thiel, 12 Mateo Acosta, 13 Juan Manuel Alonso, 14 Tomas Baca Castex, 15 Santiago Marolda

Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Agustin Iglesias, 18 Mateo Sanguinetti, 19 Manuel Ponte, 20 Ethan Fryer, 21 Ícaro Amarillo, 22 Alfonso Perillo Albarracin, 23 Foster Douglas Dewitt

DOGOS
1 Nicolás Revol, 2 Tomás Montilla, 3 Juan Agurre, 4 Lautaro Simes, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Gastón Garayzabal, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Genaro Podesta, 10 Facundo Rodríguez, 11 Facundo Pueyrredón, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Agustín Segura, 14 Ernesto Giudice, 15 Mateo Soler

Replacements: 16 Alejandro Pronce Mezzatesta, 17 Ezequiel Bustos López, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Federico Rolotti, 20 Tomás Maria Gómez González, 21 Nicolás Viola, 22 Nicolás Roger, 23 Mateo Sanchez

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

Replacements: 16 Bernardo Lis, 17 Juan Ignacio Rodríguez, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Francisco Benítez, 20 Bautista Grenon, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Juan Bautista Baronio, 23 Tomás Sigura

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

Replacements: 16 Salvador Lues, 17 Javier Carrasco, 18 Norman Aguayo, 19 Agustín Toth, 20 Raimundo Martínez, 21 Lucas Berti, 22 Clemente Armstrong, 23 Augusto Villanueva

TARUCAS
1 Francisco Palazzi, 2 José Calderoni, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Joaquín Aguilar, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Santiago Heredia, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Santiago Saleme, 10 Stefano Ferro, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Pedro Coll, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Pablo Pfister, 15 Tomás Elizalde

Replacements: 16 Raul Giraib, 17 Mariano Muntaner, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Ignacio Marquiguez, 20  Miguel Mukdise, 21 Matías Sauze, 22 Maximo Ledesma, 23 Nicolás Macome

YACARE
1 Nicolás Toth, 2 Matías Benítez, 3 Gonzalo del Pazo, 4 Camilo Blasco, 5 Joaquín Domínguez Herrera, 6 Ariel Núñez (capt.), 7 Mateo Gasparotti, 8 Juan Bautista Mernes, 9 Gonzalo Bareiro, 10 Valentino Quattrochi, 11 Juan González, 12 Sebastián Urbieta, 13 Rafael Bareiro, 14 Arturo López, 15 Francisco Calello

Replacements: 16 Gaston Salvi, 17 Cesar Pérez, 18 Luís Enrique Quinteros, 19 Yair Axel Nahuel Kacerosky, 20 Francisco Bareiro, 21 Diego Miño, 22 Gianfranco Parodi, 23 Joaquín Mussi

SRA WEEK 12 – MATCH OFFICIALS

VS
Referee: Gonzalo De Achaval (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Cauã Ricardo (Brazil); Simón Larrubia (Argentina)

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

VS
Referee: Tomás Ninci (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Moyano (Argentina); Esteban Filipanics (Argentina)

VS
Referee: Francisco González (Uruguay)
Assistant Referees: Juan Manuel Martínez (Argentina); Pedro Lopez Vildosa (Argentina)