The 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 23rd annual series of

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tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by

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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

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for the 2022–23 series.

Core teams

The core teams remained unchanged from the previous series due to the

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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: ;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 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
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Placings summary

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

Player statistics

Dream Team

Reference:

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

Tournaments

Dubai I

Dubai II

Malaga

Seville

Singapore

Vancouver

Toulouse

London

Los Angeles

References

External links

Official site
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