2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series

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2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens
Series IX
Hosts
Date26 November 2021 – 22 May 2022
← ← 2021 (cancelled)
2019–20

The 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series is the ninth edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. The ninth edition was meant to be played a year earlier, but the 2021 Series was officially cancelled due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and just two invitational four-team tournaments were played during the season instead.

Core teams[]

Due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the core teams remained unchanged from the shortened 2019–20 series and cancelled 2021 season.[1][2] The eleven core teams qualified to participate in all events for 2021–22 are:

Notes
  1. ^ Brazil had core team status for the cancelled 2020–21 series, after winning the qualifier event at Hong Kong in 2019.[3] They retained that status for 2021–22.
  2. ^ On 28 February 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, World Rugby announced it had suspensded the Rugby Union of Russia from World Rugby membership, and all international rugby and cross-border club rugby activities until further notice. The suspension also included Belarus. Later, on 10 March, the World Rugby Executive Council confirmed the suspension was permanent, thus Russia would not compete in all further competitions available (2023 Rugby World Cup, 2022 Men's World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series, 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series).[4][5]

Tour venues[]

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

2021–22 Itinerary
Leg Stadium City Dates Winner
Dubai (2 events) The Sevens Dubai 26–27 November 2021  Australia
3–4 December 2021  Australia
Spain (2 events) Estadio Ciudad de Málaga Málaga 21–23 January 2022  United States
Estadio de La Cartuja Seville 28–30 January 2022  Australia
Canada Westhills Stadium Langford 30 April – 1 May 2022
France Stade Ernest-Wallon [8] Toulouse 20–22 May 2022

Standings[]

For the tie-breaker rules, see World Rugby Women's 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 six tournaments in the series, only the best four 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 (dagger) is recorded in the event column where a low-scoring round is excluded from a team's overall points total. A dash (—) is recorded in the event column if a team did not compete at a tournament.

2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens – Series IX
 
Pos
Event 
Team
Dubai I
Dubai II
Má­laga
Se­ville

Points
total
1  Australia 20 20 16 20 76
2  France 16 16 14 12 58
3  United States 8 12 20 14 54
4  Ireland 4 8 12 18 42
5  Fiji[a] 18 18 —1 — 37
6  Russia[b] 14 14 18 10 — — 37
7  England[c] —6 —2 8 16 32
8  Canada 6 6 10 8 30
9  Spain 3 10 4 6 23
10  Brazil 10 4 2 4 20
11  Great Britain[c] 12 3 — — — — 15
12  Poland — — 6 3 9
13  Belgium — — 3 2 5
14  Portugal — — — 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 position for lowest-placed core team at the end of the 2021–22 series [9]
Yellow Invited team
Notes
  1. ^ Fiji withdrew from both events in Spain following positive COVID-19 tests in their squad.[10] However, the team was not replaced for Málaga[11] where their matches were recorded as 0–0 byes and their opponents awarded wins via walkover. As such, despite not playing, Fiji was placed twelfth in Málaga and received one point from the event toward their season standings.[12]
  2. ^ Russia, whom had competed at the first four events in the series, was suspended on 10 March 2022 by World Rugby (until further notice) following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. All international rugby and cross-border club rugby activities were suspended, as was the membership of the Rugby Union of Russia. On 10 March the World Rugby Executive Council confirmed the decision, and for the remainder of the series the Russia women's sevens team will not be allowed compete.[4][5] Furthermore, as World Rugby did with England, Russia's points at the end of the season would be adjusted to thirty-seven rather than fifty-six, consistent with the proportioned-basis points system.[5]
  3. ^ a b Great Britain represented England, Scotland and Wales in the first two events held in Dubai. For the remaining events, England (as well as Scotland and Wales, if invited) competed in their own right.[7] Points accumulated by Great Britain in Dubai were distributed to the separate national unions. The methodology is yet to be clarified, however England received eight points: six points for Dubai I, and two points for Dubai II.[13]

Placings summary[]

Tallies of top four tournament placings 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
 Australia 3 — 1 — 4
 United States 1 — — 1 2
 Fiji — 2 — — 2
 Russia — 1 — 2 3
 Ireland — 1 — — 1
 France — — 2 1 3
 England — — 1 — 1

Statistics[]

Points[]

Updated: 30 January 2022

Performance[]

Updated: 30 January 2022

Notes
  1. ^ Jones scored thirty-eight points in Dubai I and Dubai II for Great Britain. All other points accumulated were for England.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "World Rugby cancels Sevens events in Cape Town and Singapore". ESPN. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021.
  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. ^ "Brazil win Core Qualifiers in Hong Kong". Americas Rugby. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  4. ^ a b "World Rugby confirms sporting sanctions for Russia and Belarus". world.rugby. World Rugby. 28 February 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "Rugby sevens competitions update following suspension of Russia". world.rugby. World Rugby. 10 March 2022.
  6. ^ "HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series". World.Rugby. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  7. ^ a b "HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2022 schedule unveiled". World Rugby. 12 October 2021.
  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. ^ Naivalurua, Navitalai (21 January 2022). "Fiji Men's and Women's 7s teams pull out of Spain tournaments". Fiji Village.
  11. ^ "HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series heads to Spain as pools and schedule are updated". World Rugby. 13 January 2022.
  12. ^ "Women's Standings". world.rugby. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  13. ^ "Women's Standings". world.rugby. Retrieved 24 January 2022.

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