2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series

The 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series is the ninth edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. The ninth edition was meant to be played a year earlier, but the 2021 Series was officially cancelled due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and just two invitational four-team tournaments were played during the season instead.

2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens
Series IX
Hosts
Date26 November 2021 – 22 May 2022
← ← 2021 (cancelled)
2019–20

Core teams

Due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the core teams remained unchanged from the shortened 2019–20 series (and continuing through the cancelled 2021 season).[1][2] The eleven core teams qualified to participate in all events for 2021–22 are:

Notes
  1. Brazil had core team status for the cancelled 2020–21 series, after winning the qualifier event at Hong Kong in 2019,[3] and retained that status for 2021–22.

Tour venues

The schedule for the series is:[4][5]

2021–22 Itinerary
Leg Stadium City Dates Winner
Dubai (2 events) The SevensDubai 26–27 November 2021 Australia
3–4 December 2021 Australia
Spain (2 events) Estadio Ciudad de MálagaMálaga 21–23 January 2022
Estadio de La CartujaSeville 28–30 January 2022
Canada Westhills StadiumLangford 30 April – 1 May 2022
France Stade Ernest-Wallon [6]Toulouse 20–22 May 2022

Standings
For the tie-breaker rules, see World Rugby Women's 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.[7]

  • This system excludes the two lowest-scored rounds from each team in the overall standings.
  • So, with six tournaments in the series, only the best four results for each team will contribute to the final standings.[7]

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 team's overall points total. A dash (—) is recorded in the event column if a team did not compete at a tournament.

2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens – Series IX
 
Pos
Event 
Team
Dubai I
Dubai II
Má­laga
Se­ville
Lang­ford
Tou­louse		 Points
total
1  Australia 202040
2  Fiji 181836
3  France 161632
4  Russia 141428
5  United States 81220
6 Great Britain[lower-alpha 1] 123————15
7  Brazil 10414
8  Spain 31013
9  Ireland 4812[lower-alpha 2]
10  Canada 6612[lower-alpha 2]
11  England[lower-alpha 1] —6—8[lower-alpha 3]
12* New Zealand ——0
12* Poland ——0

Source: World Rugby

Legend
No colour Core team in 2021–22 and re-qualified as a core team for the following season
Pink Relegated as the lowest placed core team at the end of the 2021–22 series [7]
Yellow Invited team

Detailed standings
Statistical standings – Series IX
 
Pos		 Team Pld W D L PF PA P ± Avg pts TF Avg T Win % Avg pts[lower-alpha 4]
1  Australia 10 10 0 0 331 68 263 33.1 53 5.2 100% 20
2  Fiji 10 7 0 3 194 165 29 19.4 30 3.0 70% 18
3  France 10 7 0 3 268 103 165 26.8 42 4.2 70% 16
4  Russia 10 6 0 4 156 174 –18 15.6 26 2.6 60% 14
5  United States 10 6 0 4 151 178 –27 15.1 25 2.5 60% 10
6  Great Britain 10 4 0 6 174 218 –44 17.4 30 3.0 40% 7.5
7  Brazil 10 3 0 7 149 222 –73 14.9 23 2.3 30% 7
8  Spain 10 2 0 8 93 248 –155 9.3 15 1.5 20% 6.5
9  Ireland 10 3 0 7 161 204 –43 16.1 27 2.7 30% 6
10  Canada 10 2 0 8 122 219 –97 12.2 20 2.0 20% 6

Source: World Rugby Stats Centre

Notes
  1. For the first two events held in Dubai, the Great Britain team represented England, Scotland and Wales. For the remaining events, England (as well as Scotland and Wales, if invited) competed as separate national unions.[5]
  2. Point differential: Ireland –43, Canada –97.
  3. England, a core team for the last four series events, were given points accumulated by Great Britain in Dubai I and Dubai II. The points listed by World Rugby state "Total Points: 8", however a methodology has yet to be explained.
  4. Average placing points, not match points.

Placings summary

Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2021–22 series, by team:

Team Gold Silver Bronze Fourth Total
 Australia 2———2
 Fiji —2——2
 France ——2—2
 Russia ———22

See also

References
  1. "World Rugby cancels Sevens events in Cape Town and Singapore". ESPN. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021.
  2. "HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series to double-up in Canada and Dubai". World Rugby. 3 September 2021. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021.
  3. "Brazil win Core Qualifiers in Hong Kong". Americas Rugby. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  4. "HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series". World.Rugby. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  5. "HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2022 schedule unveiled". World Rugby. 12 October 2021.
  6. "Toulouse to host World Rugby Sevens date". Barrons. 12 October 2021.
  7. "Everything you need to know about the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2022". World Rugby. 1 December 2021. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021.
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