2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series

The 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was 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 cancelled due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Australia won the series at the second-last event in Canada, winning four out of the six events on the tour to claim their third World Series title. France, Fiji and Ireland placed second, third and fourth, respectively, which was the best finish achieved by all three teams in the World Series.

The 2021–22 series was affected by ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with two of the eleven core teams not able to compete in all six events as a result. The defending series champions New Zealand missed the first four events due to travel-related restrictions, and Fiji was forced to withdraw from both tournaments in Spain due to positive COVID-19 tests in their squad.

A further two core teams also only played in four of the six events. England was replaced by a united Great Britain team for the first two tournaments in Dubai, and Russia was banned from competing following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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

Notes

Tour venues The schedule for the series was:

+ 2021–22 ItineraryLegStadiumCity 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 Canada Westhills Stadium Langford 30 April – 1 May 2022 France Stade Ernest-Wallon Toulouse 20–22 May 2022

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 six tournaments in the series, only the best four tournament results for each team contributed to the ranking points.

The points awarded to teams at each event, as well as the overall season totals, are shown in the table below. Gold indicates the event champions, silver indicates the event runner-ups and bronze indicates the event third place finishers. An asterisk (*) indicates a tied placing. An obelisk (†) is recorded in the event column where a low-scoring round is excluded from a core team's ranking points. A dash (—) is recorded in the event column if a team did not compete at a tournament.

+ 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens – Women's Series IX Pos. Dubai I Dubai II Málaga SevilleLangford Toulouse Pointstotal Rankingpoints Pointsdifference1202016†202018†11480+544216161412†1412†8460+280 31818—1†—†8166160+1374 4†8†121816147260+1015—†—†——16203857+26268†122014108†7256+12876†6†10812105240–57814141810——5637–149—6—2†81631†4033–56103†104662†3126–22711 104†2†4463024–3112 123————1515–4413 ——63——99–9114 ——32——55–16915 —————444–4616 —————333–14317 ————2—22–5418 ———1——11–21119 ————1—11–228

Source: World Rugby

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:92%;" |- |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 align=center |Event medalists |- |bgcolor=#FFD700|Gold |Event Champions |- |bgcolor=#C0C0C0|Silver |Event Runner-ups |- |bgcolor=#CD7F32|Bronze |Event Third place finishers |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 align=center |Qualification for the 2022–23 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series |- |No colour |Core team in 2021–22 and re-qualified as a core team for the following season |- |bgcolor=#BBBBBB|Black |Banned from participating in the 2021–22 series from 28 February 2022 onwards |- |bgcolor=#ffc|Yellow |Invited team

Notes

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

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

Statistics Points

+Tries scored Rank Player Tries1 Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe 362 Charlotte Caslick313 Faith Nathan 294 Thalia Costa265 Maddison Levi24 Joanna Grisez7 Alowesi Nakoci238 Jade Ulutule209 Jaz Gray18 Reapi Ulunisau

+Points scored Rank Player Points1 Jade Ulutule 2262 Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe 1803 Lucy Mulhall 1694 Charlotte Caslick1555 Faith Nathan1456 Thalia Costa1307 Sharni Williams1218 Maddison Levi120 Joanna Grisez10 Alowesi Nakoci115

Updated: 22 May 2022

Performance

+Impact Player winner Event Player PointsDubai I Charlotte Caslick 55Dubai II Charlotte Caslick 75Málaga Séraphine Okemba 71 Seville Karolina Jaszczyszyn 92 Langford Reapi Ulunisau 80 Toulouse Charlotte Caslick 75

+Total Impact Player pointsRankPlayer Total 1 Charlotte Caslick 87 27 38 159 403 2 Lucy Mulhall 84 18 15 160 328 3 Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe 48 37 21 121 322 4 Faith Nathan 68 30 9 85 261 5 Ilona Maher 58 16 20 109 255 6 Reapi Ulunisau 43 18 25 82 229 7 Madison Ashby 81 10 16 84 227 8 Thalia Costa 38 24 9 94 222 9 Jade Ulutule 58 17 17 72 215 10 Alowesi Nakoci 38 23 18 66 209 Key: T = Tackles (1 pt), B = Line breaks (3 pts), O = Offloads (2 pts), C = Carries (1 pt)

Updated: 22 May 2022

Tournaments Dubai I

EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup22–7Bronze40–05th Place22–217th Place17–79th Place31–14

Dubai II

EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup15–5Bronze28–55th Place7–57th Place26–129th Place26–24

Malaga

EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup35–10Bronze33–75th Place26–57th Place22–109th Place17–511th Place0–0

Seville

EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup17–12Bronze19–125th Place26–107th Place21–59th Place17–511th Place40–7

Langford

EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup21–17Bronze22–145th Place12–77th Place26–79th Place24–711th Place45–0

Toulouse

EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup21–14Bronze26–105th Place19–147th Place15–79th Place24–1011th Place26–14

See also 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series (for men's teams) Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021)

References

External links Official site