The 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 24th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for men's national teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999. This series doubled as a qualifier for the 2024 Olympic Games, with the top four countries, excluding hosts France, qualifying automatically.
The series was won by New Zealand, winning five of the eleven tour events held during the season on their way to claiming their fourteenth World Series title. The next placed teams were, in order, Argentina, Fiji, France, Australia.
Core teams The core teams eligible to participate in all tournaments for 2022–23 were:
was promoted to core team status by winning the 2022 Challenger Series. The unions of England, Scotland and Wales agreed to merge their teams to compete as for the 2022–23 series onward.
Tour venues The eleven-event schedule for the series was:
+ 2022–23 ItineraryLegStadiumCity DatesWinner Hong Kong 2022 Hong Kong Stadium Hong Kong 5–6 November 2022 Dubai The Sevens Stadium Dubai 2–4 December 2022 South Africa DHL Stadium Cape Town 9–11 December 2022 New Zealand FMG Stadium Waikato Hamilton 21–22 January 2023 Australia Allianz Stadium Sydney 27–29 January 2023 United States Dignity Health Sports Park Los Angeles 25–26 February 2023 Canada BC Place Vancouver 3–5 March 2023 Hong Kong 2023 Hong Kong Stadium Hong Kong 31 March – 2 April 2023 Singapore National Stadium Singapore 8–9 April 2023 France Stade Ernest-Wallon Toulouse 12–14 May 2023 England Twickenham Stadium London 20–21 May 2023
Standings
The final standings after completion of the eleven 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 2022–23 series were:
+ 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens – Men's Series XXIV Pos. Hong Kong I Dubai Cape Town Hamilton Sydney Los Angeles Vancouver Hong Kong II Singapore Toulouse London Pointstotal Pointsdifference1 817191922221322222214200+9952 13121222 8192213191920179+5493198 13 101717 101917818156+68641713 815 15 81917101712151+1895 2210 713101517513138133+4136 151022 8 13 13 8715516132+4727 102215 1019 10 3125104120+2058 1019 512121015811210114+1519 5 510 51012101512106100–6510 12151717 5 3121031398–13111 53532751087257–156-->style="border-left:3px solid #824;" 12 371013555105054 –437-->style="border-left:3px solid #824;" 13 1537517173040–358-->style="border-left:3px solid #824;" 14 72221512215039–41415 2111122152018–1035-->style="border-left:3px solid #824;" 16 ——— 5 7—————012–12817 1——————31——5–15519 —11————————2–16418 —————11————2–17120 —————————1—1–67 Source: {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:92%;" |- !colspan=2| Legend |- 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 style="text-align:center; color:#555;"|Qualification for the 2024 Olympic Sevens |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #06d;"| Qualified as one of the four highest-placed eligible teams in the 2022–23 World Sevens Series |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #7cf;"| Automatically qualified (host country France) |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 style="text-align:center; color:#555;"|Qualification for the 2023–24 World Sevens Series |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #824"| Participated in the final round play-offs for core team status on the 2023–24 World Sevens Series |- |style="width:4.5em;"|No colour |Core team and re-qualified as a core team for the 2023–24 World Sevens Series
|style="background:#fdd;"|Pink |Relegated from core team status for 2023–24
|style="background:#ffd;"|Yellow |Invited team
Placings summary Tallies of top-four placings in tournaments during the 2022–23 series, by team:
Team Gold Silver BronzeFourthTotal 5 2 1 1 9 3 3 — — 6 1 1 — 1 3 1 — 1 2 4 1 — 1 1 3 — 3 3 — 6 — 1 3 2 6 — 1 — 1 2 — — 2 1 3 — — — 1 1 — — — 1 1
Player statistics
Dream Team
Rodrigo Isgró Leroy Carter Akuila Rokolisoa Marcos Moneta Luciano González Rizzoni Va'a Apelu Maliko Henry Paterson Reference:
Scoring
+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Va'a Apelu Maliko 50 2 Marcos Moneta 47 3 Akuila Rokolisoa 43 4 Perry Baker 35 5 Nathan Lawson 34 Updated: 4 June 2023
+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Akuila Rokolisoa 415 2 Waisea Nacuqu 317 3 Dietrich Roache 262 4 Va'a Apelu Maliko 252 5 Paul Scanlan 246 Updated: 4 June 2023
Performance
+Impact Player winner by event Tour Leg Player Pts Ref Hong Kong I Va'a Apelu Maliko 75 Aaron Grandidier 75 Dubai Joseva Talacolo 54 Cape Town Manueli Maisamoa 76 Hamilton Dietrich Roache 70 Sydney Manueli Maisamoa 84 Los Angeles Josiah Morra 59 Vancouver Theo Forner 70 Hong Kong II Andrew Smith 70 Singapore Joseva Talacolo 72 Toulouse Manu Moreno 67 London Akuila Rokolisoa71
+ Overall season Impact Player pointsPlayer 1 Va'a Apelu Maliko 122 41 55 214 569 2 Dietrich Roache 134 32 59 198 546 3 129 29 58 167 499 4 Akuila Rokolisoa 88 37 58 164 479 5 Varian Pasquet 93 16 71 187 470 6 Rodrigo Isgro 104 29 35 192 453 7 Henry Paterson 107 28 29 187 436 8 Luciano Gonzalez 69 32 27 200 419 9 Matías Osadczuk 107 25 37 160 416 10 Josiah Morra 109 26 15 184 401 Key: T: Tackles (1 pt), B: Breaks (3 pts), O: Offloads (2 pts), C: Carries (1 pt)
Source:
Tournaments
Hong Kong 2022
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup20–17 (Bronze)5th place36–09th place33–513th place33–10
Dubai
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup21–5 (Bronze)5th place19–129th place47–013th place38–7
Cape Town
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup12–7 (Bronze)5th place29–59th place24–1213th place21–10
Hamilton
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup14–12 (Bronze)5th place26–179th place26–513th place24–14
Sydney
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup38–0 (Bronze)5th place24–129th place21–1913th place26–5
Los Angeles
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup22–12 (Bronze)5th place24–199th place26–2413th place31–7
Vancouver
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup33–21 (Bronze)5th place50–79th place35–1713th place17–5
Hong Kong 2023
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup24–17 (Bronze)5th place7–59th place19–1713th place17–7
Singapore
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup19–17 (Bronze)5th place24–219th place26–1013th place22–17
Toulouse
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup24–19 (a.e.t.) (Bronze)5th place26–219th place26–1513th place33–12
London
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup35–14 (Bronze)5th place21–19 (7th)9th place47–5 (11th)Relegationplayoffs12–7
See also 2022–23 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
References
External links Official site