2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Explained

2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens
Series:Series IX
Countries:
Date:26 November 2021 – 22 May 2022
Champions: (3rd title)
Top Point Scorer: Jade Ulutule (226 points)
Top Try Scorer: Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe (36 tries)
Nextseason:2022–23

The 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was 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 cancelled due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Australia won the series at the second-last event in Canada,[1] winning four out of the six events on the tour to claim their third World Series title.[2] France, Fiji and Ireland placed second, third and fourth, respectively, which was the best finish achieved by all three teams in the World Series.

The 2021–22 series was affected by ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with two of the eleven core teams not able to compete in all six events as a result. The defending series champions New Zealand missed the first four events due to travel-related restrictions, and Fiji was forced to withdraw from both tournaments in Spain due to positive COVID-19 tests in their squad.

A further two core teams also only played in four of the six events. England was replaced by a united Great Britain team for the first two tournaments in Dubai, and Russia was banned from competing following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Core teams

Due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the core teams were unchanged from the shortened 2019–20 series and cancelled 2021 season. The eleven core teams qualified to participate in all events for 2021–22 were:

Notes

Tour venues

The schedule for the series was:

2021–22 Itinerary
LegStadiumCityDatesWinner
DubaiDubai26–27 November 2021
3–4 December 2021
SpainMálaga21–23 January 2022
Seville28–30 January 2022
CanadaLangford30 April – 1 May 2022
FranceStade Ernest-Wallon[3] Toulouse20–22 May 2022

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 six tournaments in the series, only the best four 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 in the event column if a team did not compete at a tournament.

2021–22 World Rugby Sevens – Women's Series IX

Pos
Dubai I
Dubai II
Málaga
Seville
Langford
Toulouse		Total
points		Ranking
points
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1202016†202018†11480
216161412†1412†8460
31818—1†—†8166160
44†8†121816147260
5—†—†——18203857
68†122014108†7256
76†6†10812105240
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9—6—2†81631†4033
103†104662†3126
11 104†2†4463024
bgcolor=#ffc12 123————1515
bgcolor=#ffc13 ——63——99
bgcolor=#ffc14 ——32——55
bgcolor=#ffc15 —————444
bgcolor=#ffc16 —————333
bgcolor=#ffc17 ————2—22
bgcolor=#ffc18 ———1——11
bgcolor=#ffc19 ————1—11

Source: World Rugby[4]

Notes

Placings summary

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

Team Gold Silver BronzeFourthTotal <--1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total -->
4 1 1 — 6
1 1 — — 2
1 — — 1 2
— 2 1 — 3
— 1 — 2 3
— 1 1 1 3
— — 2 2 4
— — 1 — 1

Statistics

Points

+Tries scored
RankPlayerTries
136
2 Charlotte Caslick31
329
4 Thalia Costa26
5 Maddison Levi24
Joanna Grisez
7 Alowesi Nakoci23
8 Jade Ulutule20
9 Jaz Gray18
+Points scored
RankPlayerPoints
1 226
2 180
3169
4 Charlotte Caslick155
5 Faith Nathan145
6 Thalia Costa130
7 Sharni Williams121
8 Maddison Levi120
Joanna Grisez
10 Alowesi Nakoci115
Updated: 22 May 2022

Performance

+Impact Player winner
EventPlayerPoints
Dubai I Charlotte Caslick55
Dubai II Charlotte Caslick75
Málaga Séraphine Okemba71
Karolina Jaszczyszyn92
Reapi Ulunisau80
Charlotte Caslick75
+Total Impact Player pointsRankPlayerTotal
1 Charlotte Caslick87 27 38 159 403
2 Lucy Mulhall84 18 15 160 328
3 Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe48 37 21 121 322
4 Faith Nathan68 30 9 85 261
5 Ilona Maher58 16 20 109 255
6 Reapi Ulunisau43 18 25 82 229
7 Madison Ashby81 10 16 84 227
8 Thalia Costa38 24 9 94 222
9 Jade Ulutule58 17 17 72 215
10 Alowesi Nakoci38 23 1866 209
Key: T = Tackles (1 pt), B = Line breaks (3 pts), O = Offloads (2 pts), C = Carries (1 pt)Updated: 22 May 2022

Tournaments

Dubai I

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup22–7 (Bronze)
5th Place22–21 (7th)
9th Place31–14

Dubai II

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup15–5 (Bronze)
5th Place7–5 (7th)
9th Place26–24

Malaga

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup35–10 (Bronze)
5th Place26–5 (7th)
9th Place17–5 (11th)

Seville

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup17–12 (Bronze)
5th Place26–10 (7th)
9th Place17–5 (11th)

Langford

See main article: 2022 Canada Women's Sevens.

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup21–17 (Bronze)
5th Place12–7 (7th)
9th Place24–7 (11th)

Toulouse

See main article: 2022 France Women's Sevens.

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup21–14 (Bronze)
5th Place19–14 (7th)
9th Place24–10 (11th)

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Australia clinch overall 2022 series title while late Lily Dick try gives them Cup win in Langford . 2 May 2022 . World Rugby .
  2. Web site: Aussies win World Title in Sevens power shift . 2 May 2022 . .
  3. Web site: Toulouse to host World Rugby Sevens date . Barrons . 12 October 2021.
  4. Web site: Women's Standings . 23 March 2022. world.rugby . https://archive.today/20220523064852/https://www.world.rugby/sevens-series/standings/womens . 23 May 2022.

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