{"id":490630,"date":"2026-02-19T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490630\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:53:14","slug":"super-rugby-americas-2026-week-one-arn-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490630\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Rugby Americas 2026 – Week One – ARN Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u00a0the Australia hosted tournament.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Los Capibaras debut at home against the most successful team in the history of SRA Pe\u00f1arol. 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.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2026 \u2013 WEEK ONE<\/p>\n

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Os Cobras have five South Africans in their 23: Zinedine Booysen, Ashwin Cox, Mogomotsi Mokunyane, Tasriq Mynhardt, and Rosko Specman. All are debutants.
\nThere are also four Argentines in Os Cobras 23: Santiago Bonavento, Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, Juli\u00e1n Leszczynski, Facundo Moreno.
\nAll 23 named for Los Dogos are Argentines. The captain is Faustino S\u00e1nchez Valarolo who debuted for Los Pumas vs Uruguay<\/a> in Salta in July, 2026. Fellow Pumas center, Mat\u00edas Orlando, will debut for Los Tarucas.
\nDogos debutant Enzo Ocampo had an outstanding season for Los Cafeteros<\/a> Pro back in 2021.
\nTom\u00e1s Elizalde completes the move from los Pumas 7\u2019s to start at fullback for Los Tarucas.
\nAlfonso Escobar and Salvador Lues make their 50th SRA appearances for Selknam.
\nLucas Berti and Alan Pedrol debut for Selknam as does Argentine Santiago Montagner.
\n21 of Selknam\u2019s 23 players are Chileans. Santiago Montagner and Agust\u00edn Toth are Argentines.
\nThere will be no TMO in SRA 2026. This marks a change from past seasons.
\nRed Cards this season will follow the 20 minute ruling.<\/p>\n

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\"\"WEEK ONE \u2013 LINE-UPS<\/p>\n

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DOGOS
1 Francisco Aguirre, 2 Juan Greising Revol, 3 Octavio Filippa, 4 Valent\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez, 5 Enzo Ocampo, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Tom\u00e1s G\u00f3mez Gonz\u00e1lez, 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Nicol\u00e1s Viola, 10 Juli\u00e1n Hern\u00e1ndez, 11 Agust\u00edn de Vertiz, 12 Faustino S\u00e1nchez Valarolo (capt.), 13 Mauricio Kember, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo S\u00e1nchez<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Alejandro Pronce, 17 Ramiro Iglesias, 18 Galo Fern\u00e1ndez, 19 Federico Rolotti, 20 Augusto Cuginini, 21 Genaro Podest\u00e1, 22 Facundo Rodr\u00edguez, 23 Facundo Pueyrred\u00f3n<\/p>\n

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COBRAS
1 Jo\u00e3o Lucas Marino, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Facundo Moreno, 4 Cleber Dias, 5 Helder L\u00facio, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Cl\u00e1udio, 8 Andr\u00e9 Arruda, 9 Zinedine Booysen, 10 Jo\u00e3o do Amaral, 11 Tasriq Mynhardt, 12 Robert Ten\u00f3rio, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 S\u00e9rgio Luna, 15 Rosko Specman<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 17 Henrique Ferreira, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 20 Adrio de Melo,\u00a0 21 Maiki Lemes, 22 Ashwin Cox, 23 Juli\u00e1n Leszczynski<\/p>\n

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TARUCAS
1 Benjam\u00edn Garrido, 2 Raul Guraiib, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agust\u00edn Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Mat\u00edas Sauze, 10 Ignacio Cerruti, 11 Mateo Pasquini, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Mat\u00edas Orlando (capt.), 14 Tom\u00e1s Vanni, 15 Tom\u00e1s Elizalde<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Jos\u00e9 Calderoni, 17 Mariano Muntaner, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Franco Marini, 20 Miguel Mukdise, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Maximo Ledesma, 23 Pedro Coll<\/p>\n

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SELKNAM
1 Salvador Lues, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 I\u00f1aki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Bruno S\u00e1ez, 6 Augusto Villanueva, 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Sebasti\u00e1n Bianchi, 10 Tom\u00e1s Salas, 11 Luca Strabucchi, 12 Nicol\u00e1s Saab, 13 Domingo Saavedra (capt.), 14 Cristobal Game, 15 Mat\u00edas Garafulic<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Jorge Delgado, 17 Norman Aguayo, 18 Alan Pedrol, 19 Agust\u00edn Toth, 20 Joaqu\u00edn Milesi, 21 Clemente Armstrong, 22 \u00a0Lucas Berti, 23 Marco Alvano<\/p>\n

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YACARE
To be named<\/p>\n

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PAMPAS
To be named<\/p>\n

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CAPIBARAS
To be named<\/p>\n

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PENAROL
To be named<\/p>\n

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\"\"WEEK ONE \u2013 MATCH OFFICIALS<\/p>\n

\"\"VS\"\"
Referee: Gonzalo de Ach\u00e1val (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Tom\u00e1s Ninci (Argentina).<\/p>\n

\"\"VS\"\"
Referee: Tom\u00e1s Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nicol\u00e1s Cotic (Argentina); Pedro L\u00f3pez Vildoza (Argentina)<\/p>\n

\"\"VS\"\"
Referee: Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez (Uruguay)
Assistant Referees: Cau\u00e3 Ricardo (Brazil); Mauro Rossi (Argentina)<\/p>\n

\"\"VS\"\"
Referee: Dami\u00e1n Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Solari (Argentina); Luca Solda (Argentina)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening round of Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026 has arrived. The South American professional league begins for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,240178,219276],"class_list":["post-490630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-sudamerica-rugby","tag-super-rugby-americas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}