2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series

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2021–22 World Rugby Sevens
Series XXIII
Hosts
Date26 November 2021 – 29 May 2022
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The 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series is the 23rd annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999.

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.[1][2] 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 [3] 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.[4]

Tour venues[]

The schedule for the series is:[5][6]

2021–22 Itinerary
Leg Stadium City Dates Winner
Dubai (2 events) The Sevens Dubai 26–27 November 2021  South Africa
3–4 December 2021  South Africa
Spain (2 events) Estadio Ciudad de Málaga Málaga 21–23 January 2022  South Africa
Estadio de La Cartuja Seville 28–30 January 2022  South Africa
National Stadium Singapore 9–10 April 2022
BC Place Vancouver 16–17 April 2022 [a]
France Stade Ernest-Wallon [8] Toulouse 20–22 May 2022
England Twickenham Stadium London 28–29 May 2022
United States Dignity Health Sports Park Los Angeles 27–28 August 2022 [b]
Notes
  1. ^ The Canada Sevens event was moved from 26–27 February to 16–17 April due to COVID-19 logistical challenges.[7]
  2. ^ The LA Sevens event was moved from 5–6 March to 27–28 August due to ongoing COVID-19 logistical challenges.[7]

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.[9]

  • 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.[9]

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




Points
total
   
1  South Africa 22 22 22 22 88
2  Argentina 17 17 19 17 70
3  Australia 13 19 15 19 66
4  United States 19 11 12 13 55
5  France 8 15 13 10 46[a]
6  Ireland 11 10 10 15 46[a]
7  England [b] —4 —5 17 12 38
8  Kenya 10 12 1 8 31
9  Spain 7 7 8 7 29
10  Great Britain [b] 12 13 — — — — — — — 25
11  Fiji [c] 15 8 —1 — 24[d]
12  Scotland [b] —4 —5 5 10 24[d]
13  Canada 6 5 10 2 23
14  Wales [b] —4 —5 7 3 19[e]
15  Japan 5 6 3 5 19[e]
16  Germany — — 5 5 10
17  Jamaica — — 2 1 3
18  Samoa [c] — — — —1 1

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 [9]
Yellow Invited team
Notes
  1. ^ a b Tie-breaker margin of points scored for and against in all matches: France +183, Ireland +35.
  2. ^ a b c d 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.[6] 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.[10]
  3. ^ a b 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.[10] Similarly, Samoa finished equal-last in Seville and received one point in the season standings.[10]
  4. ^ a b Tie-breaker margin of points scored for and against in all matches: Fiji +84, Scotland –37.
  5. ^ a b Tie-breaker margin of points scored for and against in all matches: Wales –131, Japan –400.

Placings summary[]

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

Team 1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bronze Fourth Total
 South Africa 4 — — — 4
 Australia — 2 — 1 3
 Argentina — 1 3 — 4
 United States — 1 — — 1
 England — — 1 — 1
 Fiji — — — 1 1
 France — — — 1 1
 Ireland — — — 1 1

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series to double-up in Canada and Dubai". World Rugby. 3 September 2021. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Plans revised for HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2021". World Rugby. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  4. ^ "New Zealand awarded titles as HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 concluded". World.Rugby. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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  6. ^ a b "HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2022 schedule unveiled". World Rugby. 12 October 2021.
  7. ^ a b "New dates for Vancouver and Los Angeles in HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2022". World Rugby. 20 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Toulouse to host World Rugby Sevens date". Barrons. 12 October 2021.
  9. ^ a b c "Everything you need to know about the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2022". World Rugby. 1 December 2021. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021.
  10. ^ a b c "Men's Standings". world.rugby. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  11. ^ Naivalurua, Navitalai (21 January 2022). "Fiji Men's and Women's 7s teams pull out of Spain tournaments". Fiji Village.
  12. ^ "Manu Samoa 7s Pulled Out of Spain Due to High Number of Covid Positive Results". Samoa Global News. 17 January 2022. Archived from the original on 17 January 2022.
  13. ^ "Malaga: Pools". World Rugby. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Men's HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series Seville: Fixures and results". Retrieved 28 January 2022.

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