Week one of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) is in the history books. It saw a perfect four wins from Argentine teams. Os Cobras was the only non-Argentine competitor to come away with a bonus point in defeat. Will Argentine also dominate in week two?
Week two SRA action starts on Friday with Peñarol playing host to Los Tarucas in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is the reigning champions looking to rebound from a very underwhelming debut against debutants, Los Capibaras. Meanwhile, Los Tarucas are looking for more of the same after they started their SRA season very strongly against Selknam.
Selknam have home advantage in the first of three Saturday fixtures. The Chileans take-on Yacare in Santiago. Saturday action also sees Los Capibaras at home against Os Cobras and a derby in Buenos Aires between Los Pampas and Los Dogos.
| SRA 2026 – STANDINGS |
| TEAM | GP | W | L | D | PF | PA | PD | BP | PTS |
| Tarucas (Tucumán) | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 41 | 13 | +28 | 1 | 5 |
| Capibaras (Rosario) | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 34 | 7 | +27 | 1 | 5 |
| Pampas (Buenos Aires) | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 30 | 17 | +13 | 1 | 5 |
| Dogos (Córdoba) | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 21 | 19 | +2 | – | 4 |
| Cobras (São Paulo) | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 19 | 21 | -2 | 1 | 1 |
| Yacare (Asunción) | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 17 | 30 | -13 | – | 0 |
| Peñarol (Montevideo) | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 7 | 34 | -27 | – | 0 |
| Selknam (Santiago) | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 13 | 41 | -28 | – | 0 |
 SRA 2026 – WEEK TWO – FIXTURES |
- Peñarol enter with sweeping changes in the forwards. Big names from World Cups are back including Manuel Diana and regular captain Felipe Aliaga.
- Elsewhere Mateo Perillo, Joaquín Myszka, Pedro Suárez, all start this week for Peñarol.
- Los Tarucas have made two changes: Tomás Dante starts at flanker and Estanlislao Presto starts at scrum-half. They replace Facundo Cardozo and Matías Sauze respectively.
- Peñarol’s scrum and lineout were notable failures in week one. Ivo Dugonjic notes that addressing them were key focus areas this week.
- Two Argentine officials will referee the four matches. Missing is Damian Schneider who is in France officiating Clermont vs Bayonne this weekend.
| WEEK TWO – LINE-UPS |
PENAROL
1 Mateo Perillo, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Agustín Iglesias, 4 Felipe Aliaga (capt.), 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ardao, 7 Pedro Suárez, 8 Manuel Diana, 9 Alejandro Molinas, 10 Justo Ferrario, 11 Ignacio Facciolo, 12 Joaquín Suárez, 13 Juan Manuel Alonso, 14 Tomás Baca Castex, 15 Santiago Marolda
Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Francisco Suárez, 18 Juan Francisco Bessio, 19 Bautista Cat, 20 Alex Sonneveld, 21 Francisco Lawlor, 22 Juan Francisco Pereira, 23 Alfonso Perillo
TARUCAS
1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Raul Guraiib, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Tomás Dante, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 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 Mukidse, 21 Santiago Saleme, 22 Maximo Ledesma, 23 Steffano Ferro
SELKNAM
To be named
YACARE
To be named
CAPIBARAS
To be named
COBRAS
To be named
PAMPAS
To be named
DOGOS
To be named
| WEEK ONE – MATCH OFFICIALS |
VS
Referee: Gonzalo de Achával (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nehuén Jauri Rivero; (Argentina); Armin Abi Saab (Uruguay)
VS
Referee: Pablo DeLuca (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: : Tomás Ninci (Argentina); Sebastián Toledo (Chile)
VS
Referee: Simón Larrubia (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nicolás Cotic (Argentina); Juan Maio (Argentina)
VS
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Federico Solari (Argentina)