Monumental Argentina Rugby Wins

Argentina has recorded monumental rugby wins. The South Americans registered their first win over New Zealand in 2020. It meant that they have beaten every Tier 1 country. Additional wins have followed which mean Los Pumas have beaten all rugby test opponents on multiple occasions.

The 2024 team, captained by Julián Montoya, is the first to complete a triple crown in the Rugby Championship. This accomplishment will act as a comparison for future teams. Below is a look back at some monumental days of Argentine rugby.

 

 

1983: Australia 3-18 Argentina (Brisbane, AU)

• It was the first time Argentina beat the Wallabies in Australia.
• Back-rowers Tomás Petersen and Buenaventura Minguez scored tries for Los Pumas.

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ARGENTINA
1 Topo Rodríguez, 2 Andrés Courrges, 3 Serafin Dengra, 4 Gustavo Milano, 5 Eliseo Branca, 6 Ernesto Ure, 7 Tomás Petersen, 8 Buenaventura Minguez, 9 Alfredo Soares Gache, 10 Hugo Porta (capt.), 11 Marcelo Campo, 12 Rafael Madero, 13 Marcelo Loffreda, 14 José Palma, 15 Bernardo Miguens

 

1987: Argentina 27-19 Australia (Buenos Aires, AR)

• Argentina and Australia competed to a 19–19 draw in the first test match.
• The 27-19 victory in the second test gave Argentina a series victory over the Wallabies.
• The tour was five months after Australia reached the Semi Finals of the inaugural World Cup.

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ARGENTINA
1 Diego Cash, 2 Andrés Soares Gache, 3 Serafin Dengra, 4 Eliseo Branca, 5 Alejandro Iachetti, 6 Pablo Garreton, 7 Jorge Allen, 8 Gustavo Milano, 9 Alfredo Soares Gache, 10 Hugo Porta (capt.), 11 Alejandro Scolni, 12 Marcelo Loffreda, 13 Fabian Turnes, 14 Diego Cuesta Silva, 15 Rafael Madero

Replacements: 16 Juan Jose Angelillo, 17 Cristian Mendy, 18 Gabriel Teran Nougues, 19 Daniel Baetti Sabah, 20 Mario Carreras, 21 Dardo Gonzalez

 

1999: Argentina 32-16 Samoa (Llanelli, GB-CYM)

• It was the third consecutive meeting between the countries at Rugby World Cups. Samoa won 35-12 in Pontypridd, Wales in 1991 and 32-26 in East London, South Africa in 1995.
• Gonzalo Quesada kicked 27 points for Los Pumas and Alejandro Allub scored a try.

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ARGENTINA
1 Roberto Grau, 2 Mario Ledesma, 3 Mauricio Reggiardo, 4 Alejandro Allub, 5 Ignacio Fernández Lobbe, 6 Santiago Pelan, 7 Lucas Ostiglia, 8 Gonzalo Longo, 9 Agustín Pichot, 10 Gonzalo Quesada, 11 Diego Albanese, 12 Lisandro Arbizu (capt.), 13 Eduardo Simone, 14 Octavio Bartlolucci, 15 Manuel Cotempomi

Replacements (used): Omar Hasan, Miguel Ruiz, Rolando Martin, Gonzalo Camardón

 

1999: Argentina 28-24 Ireland (Lens, FR)

• Argentina defeated Ireland to reach the World Cup Quarter Finals for the first-time.
• The Irish were eliminated before the Quarter Final stage for the first-time.
• Gonzalo Quesada scored 23 points. Diego Albanese scored the game’s only try.

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ARGENTINA
1 Mauricio Reggiardo, 2 Mario Ledesma, 3 Omar Hasan, 4 Ignacio Fernández Lobbe, 5 Alejandro Allub, 6 Santiago Phelan, 7 Rolando Martín, 8 Gonzalo Longo, 9 Agutín Pichot, 10 Gonzalo Quesada, 11 Diego Albanese, 12 Lisandro Arbizu (capt.), 13 Eduardo Simone, 14 Gonzalo Camardon, 15 Ignacio Corleto

Replacements (used): Felipe Contepomi, Martín Scelzo

 

2001: Wales 16-30 Argentina (Cardiff, GB-CYM)

• Los Pumas won at the home of Welsh rugby. It was Argentina’s first away win over Wales.
• Gonzalo Camardón and Felipe Contepomi scored tries. Felipe Contepomi scored 25 points.
• Two year earlier Wales hosted Argentina in the opening match of Rugby World Cup 1999.

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ARGENTINA
1 Mauricio Reggiardo, 2 Federico Mendez, 3 Omar Hasan, 4 Ignacio Fernández Lobbe, 5 Rimas Álvarez Kairelis, 6 Santiago Phelan, 7 Rolando Martín, 8 Gonzalo Longo, 9 Agustín Pichot, 10 Felipe Contepomi, 11 Diego Albanese, 12 Lisandro Arbizu (capt.), 13 José Ramón Orengo, 14 Gonzalo Camardón, 15 Ignacio Corleto

Replacements (used): Mario Ledesma, Roberto Grau, Lucas Ostiglia

 

2006 England 18-25 Argentina (London, GB-ENG)

• Argentina’s win was the first Pumas victory against England at Twickenham
• Federico Todeschini scored 19 points including a try.
• England were the reigning World Champions. Captain Agustín Pichot told his teammates post match: “We have written history. Slowly, slowly, slowly we broke them.”

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ARGENTINA
1 Marcos Ayerza, 2 Mario Ledesma, 3 Omar Hasan, 4 Ignacio Fernández Lobbe, 5 Patricio Albacete, 6 Juan Manuel Leguizamón, 7 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, 8 Gonzalo Longo, 9 Agustín Pichot (capt.), 10 Felipe Contepomi, 11 Pablo Gómez Cora, 12 Miguel Avramovic, 13 Gonzalo Tiesi, 14 José Maria Nuñez Piossek, 15 Juan Martín Hernández

Replacements: 16 Alberto Vernet Basualdo, 17 Martín Scelzo, 18 Esteban Lozada, 19 Martín Schusterman, 20 Nicolás Fernández Miranda, 21 Federico Todeschini, 22 Horacio Agulla

 

2007: France 12-17 Argentina (Paris, FR)

• The result altered the script of both the World Cup pool stage and play-off stage. Argentina won the pool to play a Quarter Final in Paris while sending France to Wales to face New Zealand.
• It was France’s first ever loss in a Rugby World Cup pool match.
• Los Pumas were pushing for recognition; Argentina was seeking a place in either the Six Nations or Tri Nations. Captain Agustín Pichot told reporters: “Argentina should be proud. I think we do exist.”

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ARGENTINA
1 Rodrigo Roncero, 2 Mario Ledesma, 3 Martín Scelzo, 4 Ignacio Fernández Lobbe, 5 Patricio Albacete, 6 Lucas Ostiglia, 7 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, 8 Juan Manuel Leguizamón, 9 Agustín Pichot (capt.), 10 Juan Martín Hernández, 11 Horacio Agulla, 12 Felipe Contepomi, 13 Manuel Contepomi, 14 Lucas Borges, 15 Ignacio Corleto

Replacements: 16 Alberto Vernet Basualdo, 17 Santiago González Bonorino, 18 Rimas Álvarez Kairelis, 19 Martín Durand, 20 Nicolás Fernández Miranda, 21 Federico Todeschini, 22 Hernán Senillosa

 

2010: Argentina 41-13 France (Buenos Aires, AR)

• It was Argentina’s biggest win over France. The previous record was the 34–10 win in the Rugby World Cup 2007 Bronze Final.
• Felipe Contepomi scored 31 points. He went past 500 career test points in this match.

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ARGENTINA
1 Rodrigo Roncero, 2 Mario Ledesma, 3 Martín Scelzo, 4 Manuel Carizza, 5 Patricio Albacete, 6 Genaro Fessia, 7 Alejandro Campos, 8 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, 9 Nicolás Vergallo, 10 Felipe Contepomi (capt.), 11 Lucas González Amorosino, 12 Santiago Fernández, 13 Gonzalo Tiesi, 14 Rafael Carballo, 15 Martín Rodríguez Gurruchaga

Replacements: 16 Agustín Creevy, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Juan Figallo, 19 Mariano Galarza, 20 Juan Manuel Leguizamón, 21, Agustín Figuerola, 22 Horacio Agulla

 

2011: Argentina 13-12 Scotland (Wellington, NZ)

• Argentina lost Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe and Rodrigo Roncero to first-half injuries.
• Lucas González Amorosino defeated five defenders to score the game’s only try.
• The loss contributed to Scotland being eliminated in the pool stage for the first time in a Rugby World Cup. Argentina advanced by beating Georgia one week later while Scotland bowed out with a loss against England.

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ARGENTINA
1 Rodrigo Roncero, 2 Mario Ledesma, 3 Juan Figallo, 4 Manuel Carizza, 5 Patricio Albacete, 6 Julio Farias Cabello, 7 Juan Manuel Leguiizamón, 8 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, 9 Nicolás Vergallo, 10 Santiago Fernández, 11 Horacio Agulla, 12  Felipe Contepomi (capt.), 13 Marcelo Bosch, 14 Gonzalo Camacho, 15 Martín Rodríguez Gurruchaga

Replacements: 16 Agustín Creevy, 17 Martín Scelzo, 18 Mariano Galarza, 19 Genaro Fessia, 20 Alfredo Lalanne, 21 Lucas González Amorosino, 22 Juan Imhoff

 

2014: Argentina 21-17 Australia (Mendoza, AR)

• It was Argentina’s first win since joining the Tri Nations to form the Rugby Championship in 2012.
• It was Los Pumas’ first win over the Wallabies since 1997.
• Leonardo Senatore and Juan Imhoff scored tries for Argentina.

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ARGENTINA
1 Marcos Ayerza, 2 Agustín Creevy (capt.), 3 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 4 Mariano Galarza, 5 Tomás Lavanini,  6 Rodrigo Báez, 7 Benjamín Macome, 8 Leonardo Senatore, 9 Martín Landajo, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 11 Lucas González Amorosino, 12 Jerónimo de la Fuente, 13 Horacio Agulla, 14 Juan Imhoff, 15 Joaquín Tuculet

Replacements: 16 Mateo Cortese, 17 Bruno Postiglioni, 18 Ramiro Herrera, 19 Matías Alemanno, 20 Javier Ortega Desio, 21 Tomás Cubelli, 22 Marcelo Bosch, 23 Jerónimo de la Fuente

 

2015: South Africa 25-37 Argentina (Durban, ZA)

• It was Argentina’s first ever win over South Africa.
• It was Los Pumas’ first away victory in the Rugby Championship.
• Juan Imhoff became the first player in history to score a hat-trick against South Africa.

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ARGENTINA
1 Marcos Ayerza, 2 Agustín Creevy (capt.), 3 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Tomás Lavanini,  6 Pablo Matera, 7 Juan Manuel Leguizamón, 8 Leonardo Senatore, 9 Tomás Cubelli, 10 Juan Martín Hernández, 11 Juan Imhoff, 12 Jerónimo de la Fuente, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 14 Horacio Agulla, 15 Joaquín Tuculet

Replacements: 16 Julián Montoya, 17 Lucas Noguera Paz, 18 Matías Díaz, 19 Matías Alemanno, 20 Tomás Lezana, 21 Martín Landajo, 22 Santiago González Iglesias, 23 Lucas González Amorosino

 

2015 Argentina 43-20 Ireland (Cardiff, GB-CYM)

• This was Argentina’s largest winning margin over Ireland.
• Argentina reached the World Cup Semi Finals for the second-time.
• Juan Imhoff scored two tries and Nicolás Sánchez kicked 23 points.

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ARGENTINA
1 Marcos Ayerza, 2 Agustín Creevy (capt.), 3 Ramiro Herrera, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Tomás Lavanini, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, 8 Leonardo Senatore, 9 Martín Landajo, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 11 Juan Imhoff, 12 Juan Martín Hernández, 13 Matías Moroni, 14 Santiago Cordero, 15 Joaquín Tuculet

Replacements: 16 Julián Montoya, 17 Lucas Noguera Paz, 18 Juan Pablo Orlandi, 19 Matías Alemanno, 20 Facundo Isa, 21 Tomás Cubelli, 22 Jerónimo De La Fuente, 23 Lucas González Amorosino

 

2018: Argentina 32-19 South Africa (Mendoza, AR)

• It was Argentina’s third win over South Africa after winning in Durban in 2015 and in Salta in 2016.
• The result stands as Argentina’s largest winning margin over South Africa.
• Nicolás Sánchez completed a Full-House of a try, conversion, penalty and a drop goal.
• Bautista Delguy scored two tries for Argentina.

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ARGENTINA
1 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 2 Agustín Creevy (capt.), 3 Juan Figallo, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Tomás Lavanini, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Javier Ortega Desio, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 11 Ramiro Moyano, 12 Bautista Ezcurra, 13 Matías Moroni, 14 Bautista Delguy, 15 Emiliano Boffelli

Replacements: 16 Facundo Bosch, 17 Santiago García Botta, 18 Santiago Medrano, 19 Matías Alemanno, 20 Tomás Lezana, 21 Tomás Cubelli, 22 Jerónimo de la Fuente, 23 Juan Cruz Mallía

 

2018: Australia 19-23 Argentina (Gold Coast, AU)

• The win gave Argentina two victories in the same Rugby Championship for the first-time.
• It was Argentina’s first win over the Wallabies in Australia since 1983.
• The Wallabies were coached by Michael Cheika while Argentina had recently replaced Daniel Hourcade with Mario Ledesma who had previously been an assistant to Cheika. They subsequently worked together with Los Pumas and Cheika replaced Ledesma in 2022.

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ARGENTINA
1 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 2 Agustín Creevy (capt.), 3 Santiago Medrano, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Tomás Lavanini, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Javier Ortega Desio, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 11 Ramiro Moyano, 12 Jerónimo de la Fuente, 13 Matías Moroni, 14 Bautista Delguy, 15 Emiliano Boffelli

Replacements: 16 Julián Montoya, 17 Santiago García Botta, 18 Juan Pablo Zeiss, 19 Matías Alemanno, 20 Juan Manuel Leguizamón, 21 Martín Landajo, 22 Bautista Ezcurra, 23 Juan Cruz Mallía

 

2020: Argentina 25-15 New Zealand (Sydney, AU)

• It was Argentina’s first victory over New Zealand.
• Captain Pablo Matera dedicated the win to all the players who previously played for Los Pumas and to his country.
• Santiago Chocobares and Santaigo Grondona won on test debut.
• Nicolás Sánchez scored all 25 points for Argentina. This overtook Hugo Porta’s record of 21 points in a match of Argentina against New Zealand.

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ARGENTINA
1 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 2 Julián Montoya, 3 Francisco Gómez Kodela, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Matías Alemanno, 6 Pablo Matera (capt.), 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Rodrigo Bruni, 9 Tomás Cubelli, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 11 Juan Imhoff, 12 Santiago Chocobares, 13 Matías Orlando, 14 Bautista Delguy, 15 Santiago Carreras

Replacements: 16 Facundo Bosch, 17 Mayco Vivas, 18 Santiago Medrano, 19 Santiago Grondona, 20 Tomás Lezana, 21 Gonzalo Bertranou, 22 Lucio Cinti, 23 Santiago Cordero

 

2022: New Zealand 18-25 Argentina (Christchurch, NZ)

• It was was Argentina’s first away win over New Zealand.
• It was the first time that Argentina won consecutive matches in the Rugby Championship. Los Pumas defeated Australia in San Juan in the previous round.
• Emiliano Boffelli scored 20 points for Argentina. Juan Martín González was the try scorer.

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ARGENTINA
1 Thomas Gallo, 2 Julián Montoya (capt.), 3 Joel Sclavi, 4 Matías Alemanno, 5 Tomás Lavanini, 6 Juan Martín González, 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Pablo Matera, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 10 Santiago Carreras, 11 Lucio Cinti, 12 Matías Orlando, 13 Matías Moroni, 14 Emiliano Boffelli, 15 Juan Cruz Mallía

Replacements: 16 Santiago Socino, 17 Mayco Vivas, 18 Eduardo Bello, 19 Guido Petti, 20 Santiago Grondona, 21 Tomás Cubelli, 22 Tomás Albornoz, 23 Santiago Cordero

 

2022: England 29-30 Argentina (London, GB-ENG)

• Argentina defeated England for the first time since 2009 in Salta and for the second time in England.
• Emiliano Boffelli scored 25 points for Argentina. He and Santiago Carreras were the try scorers.

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ARGENTINA
1 Thomas Gallo, 2 Julián Montoya (capt.), 3 Francisco Gómez Kodela, 4 Matías Alemanno, 5 Tomás Lavanini, 6 Juan Martín González, 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Pablo Matera, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 10 Santiago Carreras, 11 Emiliano Boffelli, 12 Jerónimo De La Fuente, 13 Matías Moroni, 14 Mateo Carreras, 15 Juan Cruz Mallía

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 18 Eduardo Bello, 19 Lucas Paulos, 20 Facundo Isa, 21 Eliseo Morales, 22 Tomás Albornoz, 23 Matías Orlando

 

2024: New Zealand 30-38 Argentina (Wellington, NZ)

• Argentina broke the record for the most points scored against the All Blacks in a match in New Zealand.
• Argentina scored their highest points total for in a match against New Zealand.
• Efraín Elías debuted for Argentina and had a try assist.

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ARGENTINA
1 Thomas Gallo, 2 Ignacio Ruiz, 3 Eduardo Bello, 4 Franco Molina, 5 Pedro Rubiolo, 6 Pablo Matera (capt.), 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Juan Martín González, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 10 Santiago Carreras, 11 Mateo Carreras, 12 Santiago Chocobares, 13 Lucio Cinti, 14 Matías Moroni, 15 Juan Cruz Mallía

Replacements: 16 Agustín Creevy, 17 Mayco Vivas, 18 Joel Sclavi, 19 Tomás Lavanini, 20 Efraín Elías, 21 Joaquín Oviedo, 22 Lautaro Bazán Vélez, 23 Tomás Albornoz

2024: Argentina 67-27 Australia (Santa Fe, AR)

• It was the most points ever conceded by Australia in a rugby test match.
• Argentina scored their most points in a match against Australia.
• Argentina set their new largest winning margin record of 40 points v Australia.
• Tomás Albornoz scored 18 points in his first Rugby Championship start for Los Pumas.
• Captain Julián Montoya earned his 100th test cap.

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ARGENTINA
1 Thomas Gallo, 2 Julián Montoya (capt.), 3 Joel Sclavi, 4 Guido Petti, 5 Tomás Lavanini, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Juan Martín González. 9 Gonzalo Bertrano, 10 Tomás Albornoz, 11 Mateo Carreras, 12 Santiago Chocobares, 13 Lucio Cinti, 14 Bautista Delguy, 15 Juan Cruz Mallía

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Mayco Vivas, 18 Eduardo Bello, 19 Franco Molina, 20 Joaquín Oviedo, 21 Santiago Grondona, 22 Gonzalo García, 23 Santiago Carreras

 

2024: Argentina 29-28 South Africa (Santiago del Estero, AR)

• Argentina claimed an historic Triple-Crown by beating all Rugby Championship opponents in the same tournament. Argentina defeated New Zealand 38-30 away and Australia 67-27 in Santa Fe.
• It was Argentina’s first win against a team ranked No 1 in the world since World Rugby Rankings began in 2003.
• The win added a new scalp to Felipe Contepomi’s Pumas. In his rookie season in charge, Contepomi’s teams have beaten France, Uruguay, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.
• Pedro Delgado made his test debut for Argentina.

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ARGENTINA
1 Thomas Gallo, 2 Julián Montoya (capt.), 3 Joel Sclavi, 4 Franco Molina, 5 Pedro Rubiolo, 6 Pablo Matera, 7 Marcos Kremer, 8 Joaquín Oviedo, 9 Gonzalo Bertranou, 10 Tomás Albornoz, 11 Mateo Carreras, 12 Santiago Chocobares, 13 Lucio Cinti, 14 Bautista Delguy, 15 Juan Cruz Mallía

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Ignacio Calles, 18 Pedro Delgado, 19 Guido Petti, 20 Juan Martín González, 21 Gonzalo García, 22 Santiago Carreras, 23 Matías Moroni