2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series

The core teams remained unchanged from the previous series due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic which curtailed the last two seasons.[3][4] The sixteen core teams qualified to participate in all 2021–22 tournaments were:

Notes

The schedule for the series was:[7][8]

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[lower-alpha 1]	Argentina
France	Stade Ernest-Wallon[10]	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[lower-alpha 2]	New Zealand

Notes

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.[11] 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.[11]

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[lower-alpha 1]	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[lower-alpha 2]	—†	—†	—	—	19	12	8	19	22	80	80
9	Samoa[lower-alpha 1]	—†	—†	—	—1	10	15	15	15	15	71	71[lower-alpha 3]
10	England[lower-alpha 4]	—4†	—5	17	12	3†	10	12	10	5	78	71[lower-alpha 3]
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[lower-alpha 4]	—4†	—5	5	10	1†	5	7	5	7	49	44
14	Canada	6	5	10	2	1†	7	1†	3	1†	36	34[lower-alpha 5]
15	Wales[lower-alpha 4]	—4	—5	7	3	5	5	2†	1†	5	37	34[lower-alpha 5]
16	Japan	5	6	3	5	2†	1†	3	2	2	29	26
17	Great Britain[lower-alpha 4]	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

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

• 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)

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