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The penultimate round of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026 will be played over the weekend of May 29-30. It comes with a split of two matches per day. All teams have something to play, a la seedings for the play-offs, securing a play-off or avoiding the wooden spoon.
Week 13 opens with Los Capibaras at home against Los Dogos at the Hipodromo de Rosario. Both teams are assured of places in the play-offs but exactly whom they will play against and where remains undetermined. SRA points are vital to maximize the possibility of a home Semi Finals.
Game two will kick-off not long after. It will be in Buenos Aires with the Semi Finals bound Los Pampas having home advantage against Selknam. The Chilean side lost last weekend to now be, temporarily or not, outside of the play-offs zone. Will Selknam be able to repeat past heroics and upset Los Pampas in Buenos Aires?
Os Cobras host Los Tarucas on Saturday afternoon. The battle of São Paulo is a must-win for both teams. Os Cobras are looking to get off the bottom of the standings while Los Tarucas have their eyes on the play-offs.
The final match of Week 13 sees Yacare taking-on Peñarol in Asunción. With clouds over the future of Yacare, it is a game that the players will be motivated for. A win would help them stay clear of Os Cobras, regardless of the outcome in São Paulo. Meanwhile, Peñarol must win to live another week.
 SRA STANDINGS |
| TEAM | GP | W | L | D | PF | PA | PD | BP | PTS |
| Dogos (Córdoba) | 12 | 11 | 1 | – | 409 | 288 | +121 | 11 | 51 |
| Capibaras (Rosario) | 12 | 9 | 3 | – | 394 | 250 | +144 | 8 | 45 |
| Pampas (Buenos Aires) | 12 | 8 | 4 | – | 426 | 272 | +154 | 13 | 45 |
| Selknam (Santiago) | 12 | 6 | 6 | – | 316 | 379 | -63 | 10 | 34 |
| Tarucas (Tucumán) | 12 | 7 | 5 | – | 356 | 324 | +32 | 6 | 34 |
| Peñarol (Montevideo) | 12 | 5 | 7 | – | 311 | 343 | -32 | 8 | 27 |
| Yacare (Asunción) | 12 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 254 | 357 | -103 | 7 | 13 |
| Cobras (São Paulo) | 12 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 214 | 467 | -253 | 4 | 10 |
| SRA WEEK 13 – FIXTURES |
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Hipódromo Independencia, Rosario | 7pm |
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La Catedral, San Isidro | 9pm |
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Estádio Nicolau Alayon, São Paulo | 3pm |
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Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción | 8pm |
| NOTES |
- Los Dogos enter with a Pumas 10-12 combination. Nicolás Roger is back from Benetton in the United Rugby Championship (URC) to start inside Faustino Sánchez Valarolo.
- Bautista Farisé is the top point-scorer inSRA 2026 with 112 points so far in the season.
- Juan Ignacio Greising Revol is the top try-scorer with 11. He starts for Los Dogos at hooker.
- The top try-scoring back is Puma Santiago Pernas who plays out of position at center this week.
- Pumas scrum-half Gonzalo García is back form Zebre Parma in the URC. Ahead of his expected move to Pau in the Top 14, he is training with Los Tarucas.
- Bruno Primavesi Kaminski majes his SRA debut for Peñarol as a replacement.
- Three Canadians will feature for Peãntol vs Yacare: Ethan Fryer, James Thiel and Foster Dewitt.
- Another two, Austin Creighton and Ethan Turner, will feature for Os Cobras as replacements.
- Los Tarucas are without captain Matías Orlando. Winger Tomás Vanni leads the side in place of the Puma.
| SRA WEEK 13 – LINE-UPS |
CAPIBARAS
1 Diego Correa, 2 Martín Vaca, 3 Enzo Avaca, 4 Lorenzo Colidio, 5 Lucas Bur, 6 Ignacio Gandini (capt.), 7 Felipe Villagrán, 8 Manuel Bernstein, 9 Alejo Sugasti, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Gino DiCapua, 12 Guido Chesini, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Lautaro Cipriani, 15 Franco Rossetto
Replacements: 16 Bernardo Lis, 17 Juan Ignacio Rodriguez, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Ignacio Alejandro Gallo, 20 Bautista José Grenon, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Ignacio Dogliani, 23 Tomás Sigura
DOGOS
1 Nicolás Revol, 2 Juan Ignacio Greising Revol, 3 Octavio Ignacio Filippa, 4 Lautaro Simes, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Augusto Cugnini, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Nicolás Roger, 11 Luciano Avaca, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Facundo Pueyrredón, 14 Agustin De Vertiz, 15 Mateo Soler
Replacements: 16 Tomás Montilla, 17 Juan Aguirre, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Valentín Gozalvez, 20 Tomás Maria Gómez González, 21 Genaro Podesta, 22 Facundo Rodriguez, 23 Ernesto Giudice
PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano, 2 Lusarreta Francisco, 3 Marcos Camerlinckx, 4 Rodrigo Fernández, 5 Francisco Sluga, 6 Juan Penoucos, 7 Augusto Cabano Wall, 8 Lucas Moresco, 9 Alejo Lavayen, 10 Estanislao Renthel, 11 Santiago Cordero, 12 Bautista Farise, 13 Santiago Pernas, 14 Alfonso Latorre, 15 Tobías Wade
Replacements: 16 Ignacio Bottazzini, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Valentin Vicente Vidal, 19 Marcelo Toledo, 20 Faustino Santarelli Castex, 21 Juan Corso, 22 Valentino Reggiardo, 23 Ignacio Diaz
SELKNAM
1 Emilio Shea, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 7 Raimundo Martínez, 8 Joaquín Milesi, 9 Lucas Berti, 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 Bruno Sáez, 20 Ernesto Tchimino, 21 Marcelo Torrealba, 22 Santiago Montagner, 23 Clemente Armstrong
COBRAS
1 João Lucas Marino, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Leonel Moreno, 4 Cleber Días, 5 Helder Lúcio Souza, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 André Arruda, 9 Zinedine Geraldo Booysen, 10 Julian Leszczynski, 11 Robert Tenório, 12 João do Amaral, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 Tasriq Mynhardt 15 Rosko Specman
Replacements: 16 Austin Creighton, 17 Henrique Ribeiro, 18 Nicolas Alkmin Ferreira, 19 Gabriel Oliveira, 20 Pedro Aparecido, 21 Maiki Santos, 22 Ethan Turner, 23 Dion Dumisani Khumalo
TARUCAS
1 Francisco Palazzi Barrientos, 2 José Calderoni, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Santiago Melitón Heredia, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 10 Máximo Ledesma, 11 Tomás Vanni (capt.), 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Pedro Coll, 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Tomás Elizalde
Replacements: 16 Juan Manuel Vivas Estrella, 17 Benjamin Farias Cerioni, 18 Lorenzo Matias Egea, 19 Joaquin Aguilar, 20 Facundo Cardozo, 21 Santiago Saleme, 22 Stefano Ferro, 23 Simón José Pfister
YACARE
1 Nicolas Toth, 2 Matías Benítez, 3 Gonzalo del Pazo, 4 Camilo Blasco, 5 Joaquin Domínguez Herrera, 6 Ariel Núñez (capt.), 7 Mateo Gasparotti, 8 Juan Bautista Mernes, 9 Gonzalo Bareiro, 10 Valentino Quattrochi, 11 Juan González, 12 Sebastian Urbieta, 13 Rafael Bareiro, 14 Arturo López, 15 Joaquin Mussi
Replacements: 16 Santos María Juarez Estrada, 17 Gastón Salvi, 28 Luís Enrique Quinteros, 19 Yair Kacerosky, 20 Francisco Luis Bareiro, 21 Diego Miño, 22 Gianfranco Parodi, 23 Facundo Paiva
PENAROL
1 Mateo Perillo Albarracin, 2 Sebastián Pérez, 3 Reinaldo Piussi, 4 Ethan Fryer, 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Pedro Suarez, 7 Lucas Bianchi (capt.), 8 Manuel Ponte, 9 Joaquín Suarez, 10 Justo Ferrario, 11 Tomas Baca Castex, 12 Mateo Acosta, 13 Alfonso Perillo Albarracin, 14 James Thiel, 15 Santiago Marolda
Replacements: 16 Foster Dewitt, 17 Juan Francisco Bessio, 18 Mateo Sanguinetti, 19 José Ignacio Rodriguez, 20 Alex Sonneveld, 21 Ícaro Amarillo, 22 Bruno Baccino Barrachina, 23 Bruno Primavesi Kaminski
| SRA WEEK 13 – MATCH OFFICIALS |
VS
REFEREE: Pablo Deluca (Argentina)
ASSISTANT REFEREES: Juan Sebastián Maio (Argentina); Juan Vega (Argentina)
VS
REFEREE: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
ASSISTANT REFEREES: Francisco González (Uruguay); Luca Solda (Argentina)
VS
REFEREE: Federico Longobardi (Argentina)
ASSISTANT REFEREES: Gastón Rogé (Argentina); Victor Hugo Barboza (Brazil)
VS
REFEREE: Tomás Ninci (Argentina)
ASSISTANT REFEREES: Cauã Ricardo (Brazil); Sergio Alvarenga (Paraguay)
