Peñarol is a
Uruguayan
Uruguayans () are people identified with the country of Uruguay, through citizenship or descent. Uruguay is home to people of different ethnic origins. As a result, many Uruguayans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizen ...
professional
rugby union
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team based in
Montevideo
Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
. The team was founded in 2019 to compete in
Súper Liga Americana de Rugby
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and is the rugby section of the
Peñarol
Club Atlético Peñarol (), more commonly referred to as Peñarol, is a Uruguayan professional football club based in Montevideo. The club currently competes in the Uruguayan Primera División, the highest tier in Uruguayan football.
The nam ...
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
. With its participation, Peñarol became the first professional rugby club in Uruguay.
[Peñarol llegó al rugby]
on Peñarol site
Peñarol debuted officially in March 2020, v Chilean team
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, which also takes part of Súper Liga Americana. The ''Carbonero'' was defeated 15–13.
Difícil jugar tan mal
on El Observador, 5 Mar 2020
Stadium
Their home stadium is Estadio Charrúa
Estadio Charrúa is a stadium in the Carrasco neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay, used mostly for rugby union and also sometimes for football. Property of the Montevideo Department, it is currently leased to the Uruguayan Rugby Union and Urugu ...
in Montevideo and holds up to 14,000 people.
Honours
* Súper Liga Americana de Rugby/Super Rugby Americas (3): 2022
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* Desafío de Campeones de América y Europa (1): 2023
Current squad
The Peñarol Rugby squad for the 2024 Super Rugby Americas season
The 2024 Super Rugby Americas season is the fifth season of the Super Rugby Americas, an annual rugby union competition mainly for South American rugby clubs. The regular season began on 16 February 2024.
Format
The seven clubs in the competiti ...
is:
References
External links
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Rugby union teams in Uruguay
Rugby clubs established in 2019
Peñarol
2019 establishments in Uruguay
Super Rugby Americas