2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series

The 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series is the 23rd annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. South Africa opened the series by winning the first four tournaments in the Series, with a 36 match winning streak that lasted until the 2022 Singapore Sevens where they were beaten by the United States in pool play.[1] The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999.

2021–22 World Rugby Sevens
Series XXIII
Hosts
Date26 November 2021 – 28 August 2022
← 2021
2022–23 →

Core teams

The core teams remained unchanged from the previous series due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic which curtailed the last two seasons.[2][3] The sixteen core teams qualified to participate in all 2021–22 tournaments are:

Notes
  1. Japan did not compete in the 2021 series but had core team status for it after winning the Challenger Series in 2020 [4] and kept that status for 2021–22.
  2. As there was no relegation in the previous two seasons, Wales retained core status despite being the lowest-placed core team in 2019–20.[5]

Tour venues

The schedule for the series is:[6][7]

2021–22 Itinerary
Leg Stadium City Dates Winner
Dubai (2 events) The SevensDubai 26–27 November 2021  South Africa
3–4 December 2021  South Africa
Spain (2 events) Estadio Ciudad de MálagaMálaga 21–23 January 2022  South Africa
Estadio de La CartujaSeville 28–30 January 2022  South Africa
Singapore National StadiumSingapore 9–10 April 2022  Fiji
Canada BC PlaceVancouver 16–17 April 2022[lower-alpha 1]  Argentina
France Stade Ernest-Wallon[9]Toulouse 20–22 May 2022
England Twickenham StadiumLondon 28–29 May 2022
United States Dignity Health Sports ParkLos Angeles 27–28 August 2022[lower-alpha 2]
Notes
  1. The Canada Sevens event was moved from 26–27 February to 16–17 April due to COVID-19 logistical challenges.[8]
  2. The LA Sevens event was moved from 5–6 March to 27–28 August due to ongoing COVID-19 logistical challenges.[8]

Standings
For the tie-breaker rules, see World Rugby Sevens Series § Tiebreakers.

Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, World Rugby revised the method used for the series standings in the interest of fairness to teams not able to participate in all rounds of the 2021–22 season.[10]

  • This system excludes the two lowest-scored rounds from each team in the overall standings.
  • So, with nine tournaments in the series, only the best seven results for each team will contribute to the final standings.[10]

The points awarded to teams at each event, as well as the overall season totals, are shown in the table below. Points for the event winners are indicated in bold. An asterisk (*) indicates a tied placing. An obelisk (†) is recorded in the event column where a low-scoring round is excluded from a team's overall points total. A dash (—) is recorded where a team did not compete.

2021–22 World Rugby Sevens – Series XXIII
 
Pos.
Event 
Team
Dubai I
Dubai II
Má­laga
Se­ville
Singa­pore
Van­cou­ver
Tou­louse
Lon­don
Los Ang­eles		 Points
total
   
1  South Africa 222222221013111
2  Argentina 171719171322105
3  Australia 131915191717100
4  United States 1911121312370
5  Ireland 1110101515869
6  Fiji [lower-alpha 1] 158—1—221965
7  France 815131081064
8  England [lower-alpha 2] —4—5171231051
9  Spain 77877238
10  Kenya 1012185137
11  New Zealand [lower-alpha 3] ————191231[lower-alpha 4]
12  Canada 651021731[lower-alpha 4]
13  Scotland [lower-alpha 2] —4—55101530
14  Wales [lower-alpha 2] —4—5735529
15  Samoa [lower-alpha 1] ————1101526
16  Great Britain [lower-alpha 2] 1213———————25
17  Japan 56352122
18  Germany ——55—————10
19  Jamaica ——21—————3

Source: World Rugby

Legend
No colour Core team in 2021–22 and in position to re-qualify as a core team for the following season
Pink Relegation positions for the two lowest-placed core teams at the end of the 2021–22 series [10]
Yellow Invited team
Notes
  1. Fiji and Samoa did not play in Spain following positive COVID-19 tests in their squads.[11][12] As Fiji was not replaced in the schedule for Málaga [13] and Samoa not replaced for Seville,[14] their opponents advanced by walkover in those tournaments. As such, Fiji finished equal-last in Málaga and received one point in the season standings.[15] Similarly, Samoa finished equal-last in Seville and received one point in the season standings.[15]
  2. England, Scotland and Wales were represented by Great Britain in the first two events held in Dubai. For the remaining events, they competed as separate national unions.[7] Points accumulated by the Great Britain team in Dubai were distributed to the three unions. The methodology used is yet to be clarified, however all three teams received nine points: four points each for Dubai I, five points each for Dubai II.[15]
  3. New Zealand, due to travel logistics and travel-related restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, missed the first four events.
  4. Tie-breaker margin of points scored for and against in all matches: New Zealand +138, Canada −323.

Placings summary

Tallies of top-four placings in tournaments during the 2021–22 series, by team:

Team Gold Silver Bronze Fourth Total
 South Africa 4———4
 Argentina 113—5
 Fiji 11—13
 Australia —2215
 New Zealand —1——1
 United States —1——1
 England ——1—1
 Ireland ———22
 France ———11
 Samoa ———11

Player statistics

Scoring

Updated: 17 April 2022

Performance

Updated: 17 April 2022

See also

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