2021 World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge

2021 Americas Pacific Challenge

Tournament details
Date	22–30 October 2021
Countries	Argentina XV  Brazil A  Chile A  Paraguay A  Uruguay A  USA Selects
No. of nations	6
← 2018

The 2021 World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge will be the fourth tournament of the Americas Pacific Challenge, which is a development competition for the Americas and Pacific island nations. However, due to travel restriction only Americas countries will feature, with Paraguay replacing Samoa A. The competition will be once again hosted by Uruguay with all games played at the 14,000 capacity stadium Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo.

Format[]

With six teams in the tournament and a limitation of three matches per team, a "split pool" format will be used. The field was split into two pools, with teams in one pool only playing the teams in the other. The competing teams are:^[1]

Table[]

Final standings for combined pools:

Rank	Team	Games				Points			Tries		Try Bonus	Losing Bonus	Table Points
		P	W	D	L	PF	PA	Diff	TF	TA
1	Argentina XV	2	2	0	0	170	24	+146	25	3	2	0	10
2	Chile A	3	2	0	1	108	38	+70	13	5	1	1	10
3	Brazil A	3	2	0	1	83	67	+16	10	8	2	0	10
4	Uruguay A	3	2	0	1	69	53	+16	8	7	0	1	9
5	USA Selects	2	0	0	2	34	62	-28	4	6	0	0	0
6	Paraguay A	3	0	0	3	26	266	-240	4	40	0	0	0
Updated: 6 October 2021 Source: [1] Four points for a win, two for a draw, and no points for a bye. One bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match. One bonus point for losing by seven or less. The tie-break mechanism for teams finishing on the same table points has not been sourced.

Fixtures[]

All times are local UYT (UTC-03)

Round 1[]

22 October 2021 12:30

Chile A	62 - 0	Paraguay A

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Tomas Bertazza (Argentina)

22 October 2021 15:30

Argentina XV	cancelled	USA Selects

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Ricardo Caua (Brazil)

22 October 2021 18:30

Brazil	12 - 28	Uruguay A

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Gonzalo de Achaval (Argentina)

Round 2[]

26 October 2021 12:30

Brazil A	33 - 20	USA Selects

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Matias Esteban (Uruguay)

26 October 2021 15:30

Argentina XV	146 - 7	Paraguay A

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Frank Mendez (Chile)

26 October 2021 18:30

Chile A	17 - 24	Uruguay A

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Tomas Bertazza (Argentina)

Round 3[]

30 October 2021 12:30

Brazil A	58–19	Paraguay A

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Frank Mendez (Chile)

30 October 2021 15:30

Chile A	29–14	USA Selects

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Gonzalo de Achaval (Argentina)

30 October 2021 18:30

Argentina XV	24–17	Uruguay A

Estadio Charrúa, Montevideo Referee: Ricardo Caua (Brazil)

See also[]

• 2021 end-of-year rugby union internationals
• Americas Rugby Championship
• World Rugby Pacific Challenge

References[]

https://www.americasrugbynews.com/2021/10/25/americas-pacific-challenge-round-2-preview-3/