Argentina and the USA are set for battle at the 2026 Junior World Championship. The teams will face-off in the opening round of the World Rugby tournament in Georgia. Taking place at Avchala Stadium in Tbilisi, the contest will be a Pool C fixture.
The match is new as although Argentina’s Los Pumitas are perennial top-tier competitors, the USA Men’s U20 team has historically spent most of their time fighting for qualification in the lower-tier World Rugby U20 Trophy.
The Argentina vs USA fixture comes after World Rugby expanded the Junior World Championship for the 2026 edition. The Georgia-hosted competition features an expanded format from 12 to 16 teams, opening the door for the newly-promoted USA squad to join Pool C alongside Argentina, England, and Ireland.
The match kicks off on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 13:00 local time in Tbilisi which is 6:00am in Argentina and 5:00am in New York.
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ARGENTINA
1 Fabrizio Cebron, 2 Manuel Cuneo Camargo, 3 Bautista Salinas Mallea, 4 Joaquín Pascual Viale, 5 Bautista Benavides, 6 Tomás Dande (capt.), 7 Jerónimo Sorondo, 8 Basilio Cañas, 9 Valentino Reggiardo, 10 Federico Serpa Laporte, 11 Benjamín Ledesma Arocena, 12 Pedro Coll, 13 Ramón Fernández Miranda, 14 Bautista Lescano, 15 Simón Pfister
Replacements: 16 Nicolás Cambiasso, 17 Benjamín Farías Cerioni, 18 Federico Narvaez, 19 Jeremy Annand, 20 Franco Marizza Mizawak, 21 Juan Preumayr, 22 Manuel Giannantonio, 23 Benjamín Ordiz Yujnovsky
USA
1 Oliver Kirk, 2 Sawyer Troupe, 3 Tyler Trower, 4 Pierce Kelly, 5 Lyndon Bailey, 6 Jayden Williams, 7 Yiannis Efthymiopoulos, 8 Papaseea Matelau, 9 Spencer Huntley (capt.), 10 Declan Cadden, 11 Sialeafuhia Ofa, 12 Leo Keesler-Venables, 13 Dane Mitchell, 14 Marco Lapierre, 15 Gavin Holder
Replacements: 16 Aidan Stewart, 17 Colin Donnelly, 18 Alfie Booth, 19 Tanielu Talaepa, 20 Frank Finicle, 21 Liam Hill, 22 Joseph Sarkees, 23 William Darbishire