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South American
Rugby Championship
SportRugby union
First season1951
Organising bodySudamérica Rugby
No. of teams13
Most recent
champion(s)
 Argentina
(2020)
Most titles Argentina (36 titles)
Related
competitions
Americas Championship
Tournament formatRound robin

The South American Rugby Championship refers to the continental rugby union championships for South America, organized by Sudamérica Rugby.[1][2] The current name of the championships is South American Six Nations, implemented in 2018. Throughout history, South American Championships have also existed for lower divisions of the rugby union championships, as well as youth and women tournaments, and editions for rugby sevens.

History

The South American Rugby Championship is a round-robin tournament, with each team playing each other once at a designated host stadium. The top level championship for men's rugby union, disputed annually, has received a number of different titles in history. It began in 1951 as Sudamericano de Rugby, which lasted until 1998. From 1951 to 1998, only Argentina, Chile and Uruguay were the core teams in the tournament. They competed alongside occasional additions of Brazil, Paraguay and Peru, with the winner being decided on which team finishes with the most table points.

In 2000, a second division was added, which meant the bottom placed team of the A division had a play-off match with the top placed team of the B division, although this did not apply to every tournament due to the Rugby World Cup qualification formats. In 2012, a third Division was added, which meant up until 2014, the bottom placed team of the B division would play a play-off match against the top placed C Division team. Although like A and B, this did not apply to every tournament due to the Rugby World Cup qualification format.

2016 Second level of South American Rugby Championship match between Uruguay and Chile

In 2014, the tournament became a four-tiered competition, with Argentina no longer competing as a regular. However, the tournament would keep the same format for promotion and relegation. The top placed team from Division C would play a play-off match against the bottom placed team from Division B to determine which Division those teams are in for the succeeding tournament. The winner of the play-off match would earn a place in Division B for the succeeding tournament; the loser would play in Division C the following year. This worked in the same way for Divisions A and B. The top placed team of Division B would play a play-off match against the bottom placed team from Division A to determine which divisions those teams would play in for the succeeding tournament. The winner of the play-off match would earn a place in Division A for the succeeding tournament, while the loser would play in Division B the following year.

However, the top two teams of Division A would compete at a separate competition, the CONSUR Cup, alongside Argentina, the following year regardless of their positions of that year. The CONSUR Cup was staged in 2014 and 2015, and the events were the de facto South American Championships for those years. In 2016 and 2017, the CONSUR Cup was renamed to Sudamérica Rugby Cup, but the format was kept intact. The Sudamérica Rugby Cup, in 2016 and 2017, can also be considered the de facto South American Championships for those years. In 2018, the format of the tournament was changed once again: six teams (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay) would play in the top division, which was renamed to South American Six Nations.

Argentina is the most dominant nation at the South American Championships, winning 34 of 40 editions, as well as the two editions of the CONSUR Cup, and the two editions of the Sudamérica Rugby Cup. Uruguay won the tournament four times (1981, 2014, 2016 and 2017), while Chile (2015) and Brazil (2018) won the South American title once.[3]

Results

List of tournaments

The first edition of the South American Rugby Championships was organized in 1951 as a parallel competition to the inaugural edition of the Pan American Games, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2000, a second division was added, which changed the name of the first and main division of the tournament to Mayor A (Senior A), while the second division was called Mayor B (Senior B). Teams from Central America were also allowed to compete at the South American Championships. In 2012, a third division, Mayor C (Senior C) was added. In 2018, the tournament was renamed to South American Six Nations.

Tournament names:
  • Sudamericano de Rugby (1951–98)
  • Mayor A (2000–17)
  • South American Six Nations (2018–19)
  • South American Four Nations (2020)
Ed. Year Host Winner Runner-up Third Place Fourth Place
1
1951 Argentina  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Brazil
2
1958 Chile  Argentina  Chile  Uruguay  Peru
3
1961 Uruguay  Argentina  Chile  Uruguay  Brazil
4
1964 Brazil  Argentina  Brazil  Uruguay  Chile
5
1967 Argentina  Argentina  Chile  Uruguay
6
1969 Chile  Argentina  Chile  Uruguay
7
1971 Uruguay  Argentina  Chile  Uruguay  Brazil
8
1973 Brazil  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Brazil
9
1975 Paraguay  Argentina  Chile  Uruguay  Brazil
10
1977 Argentina  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
11
1979 Chile  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Brazil
12
1981 Uruguay  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay  Brazil
13
1983 Argentina  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
14
1985 Paraguay  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
15
1987 Chile  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
16
1989 Uruguay  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Brazil
17
1991 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
18
1993 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Paraguay  Chile
19
1995 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
20
1997 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
21
1998 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
22
2000 Uruguay  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile
23
2001 No fixed host  Argentina XV [n 1]  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
24
2002 Argentina
Chile
 Argentina XV  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
25
2003 Uruguay  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Paraguay
26
2004 Chile  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Venezuela
27
2005 Argentina  Argentina XV  Uruguay  Chile
28
2006 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile
29
2007 No fixed host  Argentina [n 2]  Uruguay  Chile
30
2008 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile
31
2009 Chile
Uruguay
 Argentina XV  Uruguay  Chile  Brazil
32
2010 Chile  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Brazil
33
2011 Argentina  Argentina XV  Chile  Uruguay  Brazil
34
2012 Chile  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Brazil
35
2013 Uruguay  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile  Brazil
36
2014 No fixed host  Uruguay[n 3]  Paraguay  Brazil  Chile
37
2015 No fixed host  Chile  Uruguay [n 3]  Paraguay  Brazil
38
2016 No fixed host  Uruguay  Chile [n 3]  Brazil  Paraguay
39
2017 No fixed host  Uruguay [n 3]  Chile  Brazil  Paraguay
40
2018 No fixed host  Brazil  Argentina XV  Chile  Uruguay XV
41
2019
No fixed host  Argentina XV  Uruguay XV  Chile  Brazil
42
2020 Uruguay  Argentina XV  Chile XV  Uruguay XV  Brazil XV
Notes
  1. ^ "Argentina XV" (nicknamed Jaguares) is the second national side.
  2. ^ In 2007, the competition was not completed due to difficulties in finding a date for the match between Argentina and Uruguay, as it was the first time they participated in the final phase of the Rugby World Cup.
  3. ^ a b c d From 2014 to 2017, the Mayor A division of the championships excluded Argentina. The top team of the Mayor A division would be considered the winner of the first stage, and would later play the CONSUR/Sudamérica Rugby Cup, alongside the second placed team in Mayor A division, and Argentina.

Statistics by team

Team Titles Years won
 Argentina
36
1951, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1971. 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2019, 2020
 Uruguay
4
1981, 2014, 2016, 2017
 Chile
1
2015
 Brazil
1
2018

CONSUR/Sudamérica Rugby Cup

From 2014 to 2017, the first division of the South American Championships, Mayor A (Senior A), excluded Argentina. The top two teams of the Mayor A division would then join Argentina in a future tournament, the CONSUR Cup (in 2014 and 2015) or the Sudamérica Rugby Cup (in 2016 and 2017). The winner of the CONSUR/Sudamérica Cup would then be the de facto best team of the continent for that year.

Tournament names:
  • CONSUR Cup (2014–15)
  • Sudamérica Rugby Cup (2016–17)
Ed. Year Host Winner Runner-up Third Place
1
2014 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile
2
2015 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Paraguay
3
2016 No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile
4
2017
No fixed host  Argentina  Uruguay  Chile

Lower divisions

Mayor B

Ed. Year Host Winner Runner-up Third Place
1
2000 Brazil  Brazil  Venezuela  Peru
2
2001 No fixed host  Brazil  Venezuela  Peru
3
2002 Peru  Brazil  Peru  Venezuela
4
2003 Colombia  Venezuela  Brazil  Colombia
5
2004 Brazil  Paraguay  Brazil  Peru
6
2005 Paraguay  Paraguay  Brazil  Peru
7
2006 Venezuela  Brazil  Colombia  Venezuela
8
2007 Peru  Brazil  Peru  Colombia
9
2008 Peru  Brazil  Paraguay  Venezuela
10
2009 Paraguay  Colombia  Venezuela  Peru
11
2010 Costa Rica  Peru  Venezuela  Colombia
12
2011 Colombia  Venezuela  Peru  Colombia
13
2012 Peru  Paraguay  Colombia  Venezuela
14
2013 Paraguay  Paraguay  Colombia  Peru
15
2014 Colombia  Colombia  Venezuela  Peru
16
2015
Peru  Colombia  Peru  Venezuela
17
2016
Peru  Colombia  Venezuela  Peru
18
2017
Colombia, Peru  Colombia  Venezuela  Peru
19
2018
Guatemala  Peru  Guatemala  Costa Rica
2019
2020
2021
2022
Colombia  Brazil  Colombia  Paraguay
2023
Paraguay  Brazil  Paraguay  Chile XV

Mayor C

Ed. Year Host Winner Runner-up Third Place
1
2012 Guatemala  Costa Rica  Guatemala  Ecuador
2
2013 Costa Rica  Ecuador  Costa Rica  Guatemala
3
2014 Panama  El Salvador  Guatemala  Costa Rica
4
2015
El Salvador  Guatemala  Costa Rica  El Salvador
5
2016
Guatemala  Guatemala  Costa Rica  Panama

See also

References