The 2019 Americas Rugby Championship is the fourth series of the

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, the top level

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competition for Americas nations.

Participants

Table

Fixtures

The tournament was played in a round-robin format, with each team playing the five others once. The fixtures were announced on 5 November 2018.

Week 1

Notes: * Francisco Pizarro, Matías Dittus, Nicolás Ovalle, Javier Carrasco, Javier Eissmann, Jaden Laing, Christian Huerta, Gonzalo Lara, Augusto Böhme and Julio Blanc (all Chile) and Tadhg Leader (United States) made their international debuts. * With his try in this match, the United States' Joe Taufeteʻe tied

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for the most career Test tries by a player in the tight five with 15. Taufeteʻe reached the mark in his 20th international appearance, compared to 63 for Wood. ---- ----

Week 2

Notes: * Marcelo Huerta, Camilo Sánchez and Mauricio Gómez (Chile) made their international debuts. ---- ---- Notes: *

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was originally named in the starting team but pulled out due to injury during the warm up.

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replaced him in the starting line-up and

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came onto the bench.

Week 3

---- Notes: *Joaquín Jaunsolo, Santiago Civetta, Santiago Piñeyrúa, Mateo Mari, and Ignacio Rodríguez (all Uruguay) made their international debuts. ----

Week 4

---- Notes: * The United States' Joe Taufeteʻe scored three tries to take sole possession of the record for most career Test tries by a player in the tight five. After this match, Taufeteʻe had 18 career Test tries. ----

Week 5

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Statistics

Most points

Most tries

''Updated after Week 5.''

Squads

References

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