Week six of the Super Rugby Americas (SRA) season kicks-off this Friday with two matches. It will continue with one Saturday fixture and conclude with a rare Monday match.
The opening fixture will be in Tucumán, Argentina. Los Tarucas have a prime opportunity of adding to their 4 wins thus far this season. The second match will be in Montevideo, Uruguay with Peñarol looking for their third win and Yacare their first. Both teams are outside of the play-off’s zone for the time being.
Santiago del Chile will be the setting for the Saturday SRA fixture. Selknam’s early-season form has been a roller-coaster with a humbling demolition defeat against Los Dogos followed by an impressive home win over Los Capibaras. The Chileans will be up against Los Pampas in a mid-afternoon fixture.
Week six will conclude in Córdoba, Argentina on Monday. Los Dogos play host to Los Capibaras in the first SRA meeting ever between the teams. It is a professional battle between Córdoba and Rosario based sides, they are the second and third largest cities in Argentina respectively.
 STANDINGS AFTER 5 ROUNDS |
| TEAM | GP | W | L | D | PF | PA | PD | BP | PTS |
| Dogos (Córdoba) | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | 184 | 104 | +80 | 5 | 21 |
| Pampas (Buenos Aires) | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | 181 | 114 | +67 | 5 | 21 |
| Tarucas (Tucumán) | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | 148 | 122 | +26 | 2 | 18 |
| Capibaras (Rosario) | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | 138 | 83 | +55 | 3 | 15 |
| Selknam (Santiago) | 5 | 2 | 3 | – | 101 | 198 | -107 | 3 | 11 |
| Peñarol (Montevideo) | 5 | 2 | 3 | – | 125 | 142 | -17 | 2 | 10 |
| Yacare (Asunción) | 5 | 0 | 5 | – | 102 | 126 | -24 | 5 | 5 |
| Cobras (São Paulo) | 5 | 1 | 4 | – | 91 | 181 | -90 | 1 | 5 |
| WEEK 6 – FIXTURES |
| FRIDAY |  |
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Estadio Héctor Cabrera, Tucumán | 7pm |
| FRIDAY |  |
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Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo | 9pm |
| SATURDAY |  |
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Saint George’s College, Santiago | 3pm |
| MONDAY |  |
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Córdoba Athletic Club, Córdoba | 8pm |
| NOTES |
- Professional rugby competition begins between Córdoba and Rosario based teams.
- Os Cobras travel to Tucumán in search of their first win against Los Tarucas. Los Tucumanos won the previous encounter 54-33 on the road.
- Former Olímpia Lions and Argentina XV fly half Máximo Ledesma is back in SRA from Italy. He starts for Los Tarucas five years after joining Rugby Lyons Piacenza. He is a local player from Natación y Gimnasia.
- Federico Longobardi will make his refereeing debut, doing so for Peñarol vs Yacare on Friday. He is an experienced assistant referee in SRA.
- Peñarol continue to invest in the future by giving youth opportunities. This philosophy comes with Uruguay seeking an expanded number of players to choose from for Rugby World Cup 2027. Examples include Manuel Rosmarino, Manuel Ponte Alejandro Molinas, Justo Ferrario, Alfonso Perillo Albaraccín, Sebastián Pérez, and Pedro Suárez.
- There is also room for Canadian players Noah Riley Ethan Fryer, and James Thiel in the Peñarol 23 and Argentine props Agustín Iglesias and Jesus Porro and backs Santiago Marolda and Tomás Baca Castex.
| WEEK SIX – LINE-UPS |
TARUCAS
1 Mariano Muntaner, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Francisco Palazzi, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Tomás Dande, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Matías Sauze, 10 Máximo Ledesma, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Matías Orlando (capt.), 14 Juan Pablo José Pfister, 15 Nicolás Maria Macome
Replacements: 16 José Calderoni Zenteno, 17 Benjamín Farías Cerioni, 18 Francisco Moreno, 19 Franco Marini Linares, 20 Miguel Roberto Mukdise, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Ignacio Cerruti, 23 Pedro Coll
COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Santiago Bonavento, 3 Leonel Moreno, 4 Mogomotsi Mokunyane, 5 Lúcio Hélder Souza, 6 Cleber Días, 7 Matheus Cláudio, 8 Adrio de Melo (capt.), 9 Zinedine Geraldo Booysen, 10 Julian Leszczynski, 11 Sergio Luna, 12 Robert Tenório, 13 Tasriq Mynhardt, 14 Wilson Nascimento, 15 Rosco Specman
Replacements: 16 João Guilherme Raspa Arraez, 17 João Lucas Marino, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 Gabriel Henrique de Souza Oliveira, 20 André Arruda, 21 Maiki Santos, 22 Gustavo Gobeti, 23 Lucas Tranquez
PENAROL
1 Mateo Perillo, 2 Joaquín Myszka, 3 Agustín Iglesias, 4 Felipe Aliaga (capt.), 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Manuel Ponte 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Manuel Ardao, 9 Alejandro Molinas, 10 Justo Ferrario, 11 Juan Manuel Alonso, 12 Alfonso Perillo Albaraccín, 13 Noah Riley Flesch, 14 Ignacio Facciolo Palesso, 15 Santiago Marolda
Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Francisco Suárez, 18 Jesus Porro, 19 Ethan Fryer, 20 Pedro Suárez, 21, Joaquín Suárez 22 James Thiel, 23 Tomás Baca Castex
YACARE
To be named
SELKNAM
To be named
PAMPAS
To be named
DOGOS
To be named
CAPIBARAS
To be named
| WEEK SIX – MATCH OFFICIALS |
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Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Manuel Martínez (Argentina); Pedro López Vildosa (Argentina)
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Referee: Federico Longobardi (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Esteban Filipanics (Argentina); Armen Abi-Saab (Uruguay)
VS
Referee: Mauro Rossi (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Solari (Argentina); Sebastián Toledo (Chile)
VS
Referee: Tomás Bertazza (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Tomás Ninci (Argentina); Esteban Fipanics (Argentina)
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