2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series

2021–22 World Rugby Sevens
Host nations	United Arab Emirates Spain Singapore Canada France England United States
Date	26 November 2021 – 28 August 2022
Final positions
Champions	Australia
Runners-up	South Africa
Third	Fiji
Series details
Top point scorer	Dietrich Roache (343)
Top try scorer	Terry Kennedy (50)
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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 Australia, 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 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:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Canada
• England
• Fiji
• France
• Ireland
• Japan
• Kenya
• New Zealand
• Samoa
• Scotland
• South Africa
• Spain
• United States
• Wales

Notes

Tour venues

The schedule for the series was:

2021–22 Itinerary

Leg	Stadium	City	Dates	Winner
Dubai (2 events)	The Sevens	Dubai	26–27 November 2021	South Africa
			3–4 December 2021	South Africa
Spain (2 events)	Estadio Ciudad de Málaga	Málaga	21–23 January 2022	South Africa
	Estadio de La Cartuja	Seville	28–30 January 2022	South Africa
Singapore	National Stadium	Singapore	9–10 April 2022	Fiji
Canada	BC Place	Vancouver	16–17 April 2022	Argentina
France	Stade Ernest-Wallon	Toulouse	20–22 May 2022	Fiji
England	Twickenham Stadium	London	28–29 May 2022	Australia
United States	Dignity Health Sports Park	Los Angeles	27–28 August 2022	New Zealand

Notes

Standings

For the tie-breaker rules, see World Rugby Sevens Series § Tiebreakers.

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.

2021–22 World Rugby Sevens – Series XXIII

Pos	Event  Team	Dubai I	Dubai II	Má­laga	Se­ville	Singa­pore	Van­cou­ver	Tou­louse	Lon­don	Los Ang­eles	Total points	Rank­ing points
1	Australia	13†	19	15	19	17	17	10†	22	17	149	126
2	South Africa	22	22	22	22	10	13	5†	13	3†	132	124
3	Fiji	15	8	—1†	—†	22	19	22	17	19	123	122
4	Argentina	17	17	19	17	13†	22	13	8†	13	139	118
5	Ireland	11	10†	10	15	15	8†	19	12	10	110	92
6	United States	19	11	12	13	12	3†	10	7†	10	97	87
7	France	8†	15	13	10	8	10	17	5†	8	94	81
8	New Zealand	—†	—†	—	—	19	12	8	19	22	80	80
9	Samoa	—†	—†	—	—1	10	15	15	15	15	71	71
10	England	—4†	—5	17	12	3†	10	12	10	5	78	71
11	Spain	7	7	8	7	7	2†	5	10	1†	54	51
12	Kenya	10	12	1†	8	5	1†	1	1	12	51	49
13	Scotland	—4†	—5	5	10	1†	5	7	5	7	49	44
14	Canada	6	5	10	2	1†	7	1†	3	1†	36	34
15	Wales	—4	—5	7	3	5	5	2†	1†	5	37	34
16	Japan	5	6	3	5	2†	1†	3	2	2	29	26
17	Great Britain	12	13	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	25	25
18	Germany	—	—	5	5	—	—	—	—	—	10	10
19	Jamaica	—	—	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	3	3

Source: World Rugby

Legend
No colour	Core team
Yellow	Invited team

Notes

Placings summary

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

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth	Total
South Africa	4	—	—	—	4
Fiji	2	2	1	1	6
Australia	1	2	3	1	7
New Zealand	1	2	—	—	3
Argentina	1	1	3	—	5
Ireland	—	1	—	2	3
United States	—	1	—	—	1
France	—	—	1	1	2
England	—	—	1	—	1
Samoa	—	—	—	4	4

Player statistics

Scoring

Tries scored

Rank	Player	Tries
1	Terry Kennedy	50
2	Corey Toole	43
3	Marcos Moneta	38
	Nelson Épée	38
5	Kevon Williams	33
6	Luciano González	30
	Siviwe Soyizwapi	30
8	Jordan Sepho	29
9	Viwa Naduvalo	28
10	Joachim Trouabal	27

Points scored

Rank	Player	Points
1	Dietrich Roache	343
2	Terry Kennedy	250
3	Stephen Tomasin	234
4	Waisea Nacuqu	230
5	Corey Toole	215
6	Paulin Riva	202
7	Ronald Brown	194
8	Marcos Moneta	190
	Nelson Épée	190
10	Kevon Williams	167

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	Apelu Maliko	67
Los Angeles	Paul Scanlan	70

Total Impact Player points

Rank	Player	T	B	O	C	Total
1	Corey Toole	75	45	48	161	467
2	Terry Kennedy	52	38	38	220	462
3	Dietrich Roache	80	22	41	164	392
4	Kaminieli Rasaku	73	32	37	129	372
5	Jordan Sepho	50	31	44	117	348
6	Luciano Gonzalez	39	32	10	173	328
7	Billy Odhiambo	59	17	27	156	320
8	Henry Hutchison	106	15	17	134	319
9	Josh Turner	103	19	20	113	313
10	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

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)

External links

• Official site