The 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series was 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.

The series was won by , claiming their first World Series title. Second-placed South Africa opened the competition by winning the first four tournaments, with a 36-match winning streak that lasted until the 2022 Singapore Sevens where they were beaten by the United States in pool play, but they did not make the semifinals in any of the remaining events.

There was no relegation required at the end of the season as the number of core teams was reduced when England, Scotland and Wales were combined to play as Great Britain for the 2022–23 series.

Core teams The core teams remained unchanged from the previous series due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which curtailed the last two seasons. The sixteen core teams qualified to participate in all 2021–22 tournaments were:

Notes

Tour venues The schedule for the series was:

+ 2021–22 Itinerary Leg Stadium City DatesWinner Dubai The Sevens Dubai 26–27 November 2021 3–4 December 2021 Spain Estadio Ciudad de Málaga Málaga 21–23 January 2022 Estadio de La Cartuja Seville 28–30 January 2022 Singapore National Stadium Singapore 9–10 April 2022 Canada BC Place Vancouver 16–17 April 2022 France Stade Ernest-Wallon 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

Notes

Standings

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. This system excluded the two lowest-scored rounds from each team in the final standings. So, with nine tournaments in the series, only the best seven tournament results for each team contributed to the ranking points.

The final standings after completion of the nine tournaments of the series are shown in the table below.

The points awarded to teams at each tournament, as well as the overall season totals, are shown. Gold indicates the event champions. Silver indicates the event runner-ups. Bronze indicates the event third place finishers.

Official standings for the 2021 series were:

+ 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens – Series XXIII Pos. Dubai I Dubai II Málaga SevilleSingapore Vancouver Toulouse London Los Angeles Pointstotal Rankingpoints Pointsdifference1 13†191519171710†2217149126+5022 2222222210135†133†132124+5413 158—†2219221719123122+4824 1717191713†22138†13139118+3755 1110†1015158†19121011092+876 19111213123†107†109787–17 8†151310810175†89481+3388 —†—†——1912819228080+3739 —†—†——110151515157171+12510 —4†—517123†10121057871–11511 778772†5101†5451–4412 10121†851†11125149–18113 —4†—55101†57574944–13914651021†71†31†3634–28915 —4—573552†1†53734–32216 56352†1†3222926–63617 1213———————2525–1118 ——55—————1010+1919 ——21—————33–285

Source: World Rugby

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Notes

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

Team Gold Silver BronzeFourthTotal 4 — — — 4 2 2 1 1 6 1 2 3 1 7 1 2 — — 3 1 1 3 — 5 — 1 — 2 3 — 1 — — 1 — — 1 1 2 — — 1 — 1 — — — 4 4

Player statistics Dream Team Nick Malouf Luciano González Zain Davids Marcos Moneta Waisea Nacuqu Terry Kennedy Corey Toole Reference:

Scoring

+Tries scored Rank Player Tries1 Terry Kennedy502 Corey Toole433 Marcos Moneta38 Nelson Épée385 Kevon Williams336 Luciano González30 Siviwe Soyizwapi308 Jordan Sepho299 Viwa Naduvalo 2810 Joachim Trouabal27

+Points scored Rank Player Points1 Dietrich Roache3432 Terry Kennedy2503 Stephen Tomasin2344 Waisea Nacuqu2305 Corey Toole2156 Paulin Riva2027 Ronald Brown1948 Marcos Moneta190 Nelson Épée19010 Kevon Williams167

Updated: 29 August 2022

Performance

+Impact Player winner Tour Leg Player Points Ref Dubai I Terry Kennedy 64 Dubai II Waisea Nacuqu 60 Málaga Corey Toole 62 Seville Corey Toole 69 Singapore Corey Toole 69 Vancouver Kaminieli Rasaku 75 Toulouse Terry Kennedy 66 London Va'a Apelu Maliko 67 Los Angeles Paul Scanlan 70

+Total Impact Player pointsRankPlayer Total1 Corey Toole 75 45 48 161 4672 Terry Kennedy 52 38 38 220 4623 Dietrich Roache 80 22 41 164 3924 Kaminieli Rasaku 73 32 37 129 372 5 Jordan Sepho 50 31 44 117 3486 Luciano Gonzalez 39 32 10 173 3287 Billy Odhiambo 59 17 27 156 320 8 Henry Hutchison 106 15 17 134 3199 Josh Turner 103 19 20 113 31310 Kevon Williams 43 34 16 126 303 Key: T = Tackles (1 pt), B = Line breaks (3 pts), O = Offloads (2 pts), C = Carries (1 pt)

Updated: 29 August 2022

Tournaments

Dubai I

EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup42–7Bronze19–125th Place35–217th Place29–79th Place28–2611th Place22–14

Dubai II

EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup10–7Bronze38–215th Place10–57th Place26–199th Place31–711th Place21–12

Malaga

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup24–17 (Bronze)5th Place28–129th Place34–513th Place29–24

Seville

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup33–7 (Bronze)5th Place22–179th Place24–1913th Place19–14

Singapore

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup28–17 (Bronze)5th Place42–249th Place24–1913th Place28–14

Vancouver

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup29–10 (Bronze)5th Place17–159th Place17–713th Place33–24

Toulouse

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup29–17 (Bronze)5th Place21–129th Place42–713th Place28–14

London

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup19–14 (Bronze)5th Place14–59th Place31–513th Place26–19 Los Angeles

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup28–21 (Bronze)5th Place29–79th Place33–013th Place26–0

See also 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics (played in 2021) Rugby sevens at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (only members of the Commonwealth of Nations)

References

External links Official site