The opening round of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026 has arrived. The South American professional league begins for 2026 with two Friday matches and concludes with two Saturday matches. All eight teams will begin their SRA campaigns looking for a strong start to the new season.
SRA 2026 comes with teams, staff and players lacking the pressure from 2025 as the Rugby World Cup Qualifiers have come and gone. They saw Chile and Uruguay joining Argentina at the Australia hosted tournament.
SRA 2026 is the sixth season of the South American professional league. Changes from 2025 see the arrival of a new franchise from Argentina: Los Capibaras. The Rosario-based side is the fourth from Argentina which means Argentine teams account for 50% of the franchises for the first-time.
Los Capibaras debut at home against the most successful team in the history of SRA Peñarol. The fixture will be the fourth, and final, match of the opening week of the season. It will be one of three matches in Argentina in week one.
| SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2026 – WEEK ONE |
- Os Cobras have five South Africans in their 23: Zinedine Booysen, Ashwin Cox, Mogomotsi Mokunyane, Tasriq Mynhardt, and Rosko Specman. All are debutants.
- There are also four Argentines in Os Cobras 23: Santiago Bonavento, Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, Julián Leszczynski, Facundo Moreno.
- All 23 named for Los Dogos are Argentines. The captain is Faustino Sánchez Valarolo who debuted for Los Pumas vs Uruguay in Salta in July, 2026. Fellow Pumas center, Matías Orlando, will debut for Los Tarucas.
- Dogos debutant Enzo Ocampo had an outstanding season for Los Cafeteros Pro back in 2021.
- Tomás Elizalde completes the move from los Pumas 7’s to start at fullback for Los Tarucas.
- Alfonso Escobar and Salvador Lues make their 50th SRA appearances for Selknam.
- Lucas Berti and Alan Pedrol debut for Selknam as does Argentine Santiago Montagner.
- 21 of Selknam’s 23 players are Chileans. Santiago Montagner and Agustín Toth are Argentines.
- There will be no TMO in SRA 2026. This marks a change from past seasons.
- Red Cards this season will follow the 20 minute ruling.
 WEEK ONE – LINE-UPS |
DOGOS
1 Francisco Aguirre, 2 Juan Greising Revol, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Valentín González, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Tomás Gómez González, 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Nicolás Viola, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Agustín de Vertiz, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo (capt.), 13 Mauricio Kember, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez
Replacements: 16 Alejandro Pronce, 17 Ramiro Iglesias, 18 Galo Fernández, 19 Federico Rolotti, 20 Augusto Cuginini, 21 Genaro Podestá, 22 Facundo Rodríguez, 23 Facundo Pueyrredón
COBRAS
1 João Lucas Marino, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Facundo Moreno, 4 Cleber Dias, 5 Helder Lúcio, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 André Arruda, 9 Zinedine Booysen, 10 João do Amaral, 11 Tasriq Mynhardt, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 Sérgio Luna, 15 Rosko Specman
Replacements: 16 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 17 Henrique Ferreira, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 20 Adrio de Melo, 21 Maiki Lemes, 22 Ashwin Cox, 23 Julián Leszczynski
TARUCAS
1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Raul Guraiib, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Matías Sauze, 10 Ignacio Cerruti, 11 Mateo Pasquini, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Tomás Vanni, 15 Tomás Elizalde
Replacements: 16 José Calderoni, 17 Mariano Muntaner, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Franco Marini, 20 Miguel Mukdise, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Maximo Ledesma, 23 Pedro Coll
SELKNAM
1 Salvador Lues, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Bruno Sáez, 6 Augusto Villanueva, 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Sebastián Bianchi, 10 Tomás Salas, 11 Luca Strabucchi, 12 Nicolás Saab, 13 Domingo Saavedra (capt.), 14 Cristobal Game, 15 Matías Garafulic
Replacements: 16 Jorge Delgado, 17 Norman Aguayo, 18 Alan Pedrol, 19 Agustín Toth, 20 Joaquín Milesi, 21 Clemente Armstrong, 22 Lucas Berti, 23 Marco Alvano
YACARE
To be named
PAMPAS
To be named
CAPIBARAS
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PENAROL
To be named
| WEEK ONE – MATCH OFFICIALS |
VS
Referee: Gonzalo de Achával (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Tomás Ninci (Argentina).
VS
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nicolás Cotic (Argentina); Pedro López Vildoza (Argentina)
VS
Referee: Francisco González (Uruguay)
Assistant Referees: Cauã Ricardo (Brazil); Mauro Rossi (Argentina)
VS
Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Solari (Argentina); Luca Solda (Argentina)