Week 10 of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) features two Friday fixtures and two Saturday fixtures. Three of the four matches will have play-off’s repercussions and the remaining match is a pivotal fixture to determine avoiding bottom spot.
The action opens in Rosario where history will be made. The first-ever professional rugby contest between teams based in Rosario and Buenos Aires sees Los Capibaras having home advantage against Los Pampas. The teams are positioned 3rd and 2nd respectively. Their previous encounter in Buenos Aires was competitive with Los Pampas winning by 5 points.
Game two on Friday sees Yacare playing host to Os Cobras in Asunción. It is 7th at home against 8th with Yacare on 11 points and Os Cobras having 7. The 6th placed Peñarol are on 21 points. For all purposes, this is not only the basement clash, but also the unofficial final to avoid finishing SRA 2026 in last position.
Saturday’s two matches also see one match between two Argentine matches and one between two from different countries. The Argentine clash sees Los Dogos at home against Los Tarucas. It is the competition leaders hosting the 5th places side.
Los Tarucas are under heavy pressure now that they have been overtaken by Selknam. Moreover, their match in Córdoba comes hours after Selknam face Peñarol in El Clásico in Santiago. Selknam enter Week 10 on 27 competition points while Los Tarucas are on 23.
| SRA STANDINGS |
| TEAM | GP | W | L | D | PF | PA | PD | BP | PTS |
| Dogos (Córdoba) | 9 | 8 | 1 | – | 275 | 197 | +78 | 5 | 37 |
| Pampas (Buenos Aires) | 9 | 7 | 2 | – | 308 | 205 | +103 | 9 | 37 |
| Capibaras (Rosario) | 9 | 6 | 3 | – | 279 | 191 | +88 | 6 | 31 |
| Selknam (Santiago) | 9 | 5 | 4 | – | 240 | 284 | -44 | 4 | 27 |
| Tarucas (Tucumán) | 9 | 5 | 4 | – | 261 | 254 | +7 | 3 | 23 |
| Peñarol (Montevideo) | 9 | 4 | 5 | – | 219 | 257 | -38 | 5 | 21 |
| Yacare (Asunción) | 9 | 1 | 8 | – | 194 | 236 | -42 | 7 | 11 |
| Cobras (São Paulo) | 9 | 1 | 8 | – | 177 | 348 | -171 | 3 | 7 |
 SRA WEEK 10 – FIXTURES |
| NOTES |
- The opening match of Week 10 sees Los Capibaras naming a rotated line-up. Diego Correa, Lucas Bur, Ignacio Gandini, and Guido Chesini are in for Franco Benítez, Jerónimo Gómez Vara, and Bruno Heit respectively.
- Los Pampas welcome back Juan Penocuos at flanker. Other changes see Jerónimo Ulloa oin for Puma Santiago Cordero and a start for Estanislao Renthel in place of the in-form Bautista Farisé.
- Santos Cayol will make his SRA debut for Los Pampas as a replacement.
- Ethan Turner debuts for Os Cobras, as a replacement, and becomes the first Canadian Cobra.
- In Addition to Turner, Os Cobras face Yacare with South Africans (Rosko Specman, Tasriq Mynhardt, and Mogimotsi Mokunyane) and Argentines (Facundo Moreno, Lautaro Facundo, and Julián Leszczynski).
- Argentine Nahuel Kacerosky makes his SRA debut for Yacare, doing so as a replacement.
- Kacerosky is joined by fellow Argentines Valentino Marciali, and Francisco Gaspes on the bench.
- Yacare’s starting line-up contains ten Argentines: Francisco Calello, Ramiro Amarilla, Joaquín Lamas, Juan Cruz Strada, Juan Bautista Mernes, Manuel Todaro, Joaquín Domínguez, Mateo Gasparotti, Rodolfo Rivadeneira, and Nicolas Toth.
- Os Cobras only win thus far this season was 21-19 against Yacare in São Paulo.
- South America’s no 1 referee, Damián Schneider, will take charge of Yacare vs Cobras.
| SRA WEEK 10 – LINE-UPS |
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 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Gino Dicapua, 12 Guido Chesini, 13 Bautista Estellés, 14 Lautaro Cipriani, 15 Franco Rossetto
Replacements: 16 Bernardo Lis, 17 Juan Ignacio Rodríguez, 18 Ignacio Orsetti, 19 Franco Benítez, 20 Bautista Grenón, 21 Juan Lovell , 22 Bruno Heit, 23 Ignacio Dogliani
PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano, 2 Ignacio Bottazzini, 3 Marcos Camerlinckx, 4 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 5 Marceo Toledo, 6 Juan Penoucos, 7 Faustino Santarelli, 8 Juan Pablo Bernasconi, 9 Lucas Marguery (capt.), 10 Estanislao Renthel, 11 Jeronimo Ulloa, 12 Felipe Ledesma, 13 Agustín Fraga, 14 Santiago Pernas, 15 Tobías Wade
Replacements: 16 Francsico Lusarreta, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Ramiro Berardi Calvo, 19 Santos Cayol, 20 Lucas Moresco, 21 Alejo Lavayén, 22 Bautista Farisé, 23 Alfonso Latorre
YACARE
1 Nicolás Toth, 2 Matías Benítez, 3 Rodolfo Rivadeneira, 4 Mateo Gasparotti, 5 Joaquín Domínguez, 6 Ariel Núñez, 7 Manuel Todaro, 8 Juan Bautista Mernes, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Sebastián Urbieta, 13 Ramiro Amarilla (capt.), 14 Joaquín Mussi, 15 Francisco Calello
Replacements: 16 Valentino Marciali, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Estefano Aranda, 19 Nahuel Kacerosky, 20 Francisco Bareiro, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Francisco Gaspes, 23 Facundo Paiva
COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 3 Facundo Moreno, 4 Cleber Dias, 5 Hélder Lúcio, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 Adrio de Melo, 9 Gustavo Gobeti, 10 João do Amaral, 11 Robson Morais, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 Tasriq Mynhardt, 15 Rosko Specman
Replacements: 16 João Arraez, 17 Henrique Ferreira, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 Gabriel Oliveira, 20 Mogimotsi Mokunyane, 21 André Arruda, 22 Ethan Turner, 23 Julián Leszczynski
SELKNAM
To Be Named
PENAROL
To Be Named
DOGOS
To Be Named
TARUCAS
1 Francisco Palazzi Barrientos, 2 José Calderoni Zenteno, 3 Rodrigo Navarro, 4 Joaquin Aguilar, 5 Franco Marini Linares, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 10 Stefano Ferro, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Nicolás María Macome
Replacements: 16 Raul Enrique Guraiib, 17 Ignacio Lazarte, 18 Francisco Moreno, 19 Luciano Asevedo, 20 Santiago Melitón Heredia, 21 Matías Sauze, 22 Ignacio Cerrutti, 23 Tomás Elizalde
| MATCH OFFICIALS |
VS
Referee: Pablo Deluca (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Sergio Alvarenga (Paraguay); Tomás Ninci (Argentina)
VS
Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nicolás Cotic (Argentina); Federico Solari (Argentina)
VS
Referee: Federico Longobardi (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Sebastián Toledo (Chile); Esteban Filipanics (Argentina)
VS
Referee: Simón Larrubia (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Sebastián Maio (Argentina); Tomás Ninci (Argentina)