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
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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
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for the 2022–23 series.
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.
[ The sixteen core teams qualified to participate in all 2021–22 tournaments were:
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Tour venues
The schedule for the series was:[
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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 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 core team's ranking points. A dash (—) is recorded where a team did not compete.
Source]
World Rugby
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Placings summary
Tallies of top-four placings in tournaments during the 2021–22 series, by team:
Player statistics
Scoring
Updated
29 August 2022
Performance
Key: T = Tackles (1 pt), B = Line breaks (3 pts), O = Offloads (2 pts), C = Carries (1 pt)
Updated
29 August 2022
See also
* 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
* Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 26 July to 31 July 2021 at the Tokyo Stadium. 24 teams (12 each for men and women) competed in the tournament. The dates were modified due to the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 ga ...
(played in 2021)
* Rugby sevens at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Rugby sevens at the 2022 Commonwealth Games was held at the Coventry Stadium from 29 to 31 July 2022.
A total of 16 teams competed in the men's tournament, while eight contested the women's tournament. South Africa won the men's tournament, ...
(only members of the Commonwealth of Nations)
References
External links
Official site
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World Rugby Sevens Series