Depth Chart – Rugby World Cup 2027 Player Roster Radar

Chile will compete at Rugby World Cup 2027 in Australia. Los Cóndores booked their place at the tournament by completing an upset win over Samoa in Viña del Mar. The homecoming win was historic and saw Los Cóndores qualifying for a second ever Rugby World Cup and backing-up their debut from France 2023.

Chile’s inaugural Rugby World Cup campaign involved matches against Japan, Samoa, England and Argentina. Los Cóndores can be forgiven for having a winless campaign against a formidable set of opponents. Chile has since put together an impressive list of results to suggest that qualifying for France 2023 was no fluke. Chile has wins over Australia 2027 participants Canada, Romania, Uruguay and Samoa over the past 12 months.

With their place secured at Australia 2027,, one question to be addressed is what is the outlook for Uruguay’s player roster at Rugby World Cup 2027? This article analyzes the potential roster as by looking contemporarily and with an eye on the Australia-hosted tournament in late 2027.

CÓNDORES PLAYERS OUT SINCE RWC 2023

Who will not be playing for Los Cóndores at Rugby World Cup 2027? Who has retired? Who is no longer involved in the team rosters for international duty? Hooker Tomás Dussaillant retired in 2024 and props Vittorio Lastra and Esteban Inostroza missed out on involvement in the Rugby World Cup Qualifiers in 2025.

Additional names no longer active for Los Cóndores include Second-rower Pablo Huete and flanker Ignacio Silva who both retired. They were key members of the roster during the previous World Cup cycle. Fellow flanker Thomas Orchard is not involved in the present cycle.

Two of the four World Cup scrum-halves are not involved in 2025: Nicolás Herreros and Lukas Carvallo. Additional backs now not Chile rosters today are center Pablo Casas and the retired pair of José Ignacio Larenas and Francisco Urroz.

The following table displays Uruguay’s top players across three line-ups. The players included are based on roster selection and team lists under Pablo Lemoine over the past year.

#	TEAM 1	TEAM 2	TEAM 3
1	Javier Carrasco	Salvador Lues	Norman Aguayo
2	Diego Escobar	Augusto Böhme	Jorge Delgado
3	Iñaki Gurruchaga	Matías Dittus	Baltazar Gurruchaga
4	Santiago Pedrero	Augusto Villanueva	José Miguel Contreras
5	Javier Eissmann	Bruno Sáez	Augusto Sarmiento
6	Martín Sigren	Raimundo Martínez	Andrés Kuzmanic
7	Clemente Saavedra	Santiago Valenzuela	Inti Ubeda
8	Alfonso Escobar	Joaquín Milesi	Ernesto Tchimino
9	Benjamín Videla	Marcelo Torrealba	Lucas Berti
10	Rodrigo Fernández	Tomás Salas	Juan Cruz Reyes
11	Matías Garafulic	Federico Kennedy*	Gonzalo Lara*
12	Santiago Videla	Nicolás Saab	Tomás Baguley*
13	Domingo Saavedra	Clemente Armstrong Ríos	Rodrigo Araya*
14	Nicolás Garafulic	Cristóbal Game	Marco Alvano*
15	Iñaki Ayarza	Luca Strabucchi	Felipe Méndez *

* denotes player is uncapped.

MOST STARTS OVER PAST YEAR

Fifteen players made their test debuts for Chile in 2024 and two so far in 2025. The 2025 debutants were forwards Augusto Vilanueva and Santiago Valenzuela who both featured against Romania in their only cap so far.

Lemoine debuted Vilanueva and Valenzuela to cover injuries. Both cover flanker and second-row as does vice-captain, Clemente Saavedra who has led Chile throughout 2025 due to injury to Martín Sigren. Sigren, Saavedra, Alfonso Escobar and Raimundo Martínez are the regular four back-rowers in a Chilean 23.

Javier Carrasco started every 2024 match at loose head and remains first choice with Diego Escobar and Iñaki Gurruchage joining him in the futon-row. Gurrichaga has overtaken the French-based Matías Dittus since the World Cup. Meanwhile, Javier Eissmann and Santiago Pedrero are the common second-row combination with Bruno Sáez now being the understudy.

Benjamín Videla became the regular starting scrum-half in 2024 while there has been variation at fly half with Tomás Salas, Juan Cruz Reyes, Rodrigo Fernández and Santiago Videla all starting tests since the World Cup. This is so with Santiago Videla having been the regular inside center in 2024. Domingo Saavedra remains the starting outside center.

Matías Garafulic covers both centers and wing; he is assured of a spot in the XV. Nicolás Garafulic, who missed the World Cup through injury, is a regular on the wing with newcomer Nicolás Saab covering center and wing. Saab and Clemente Armstrong have both been used this way by Lemoine. Cristóbal Game has been widely used on the wing and Luca Strabucchi at fullback. Both can be classified as understudies to Iñaki Ayarza.

RWC 2027 SELECTION RADAR

Pablo Lemoine has confirmed he will step down as Head Coach of Chile after the World Cup in Australia. His selection for France 2023 was a roster of 19 forwards and 14 backs. This is the model utilized below to analyze Chile’s Rugby World Cup 2027 player roster radar. Chile’s needs see an alteration for 2027 with an extra back.

Lemoine’s roster for the Rugby World Cup 2027 Qualifiers against Uruguay and Samoa contained 36 players. They were six props, four hookers, four second-rowers, five back-rowers, three scrum-halves, three fly halves, six centers, three wingers and two fullbacks.

The classification per individual position does not take into account utility players; however, an analysis has been done to compile the selection radar as displayed in the following table. For example, Raimundo Martínez and Salvador Lues cover hooker, Clementa Saavedra covers second-row, Santiago Videla covers fullback and Matías Garafulic, Nicolás Saab, Clemente Armstrong Ríos cover wing.

POS = Position
QTY = Quantity

CHILE’S PROJECTED RWC 2027 LINE-UP

Rugby World Cup 2023 featured four pools of five teams each. Rugby World Cup 2027 will feature an even number of four teams per pool spread across six pools. One result of the expansion is that teams from the same pool will be able to play on the same day.

The ability to evenly spread matches will decrease the need for teams to rotate or juggle their players during the group stage. As such, teams ought to, in theory, be able to field their top line-up throughout the pool stage with few rather than many changes.