2021 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series Explained

Countries: Lebanon (Trophy)
Uzbekistan (Trophy)
Thailand (Trophy)
Date:10 September – 26 November
Prevseason:2019 (II)
Nextseason:2022

The 2021 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series was hosted as two tournament events in the United Arab Emirates in late November 2021. Following the cancellation of the 2020 series due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the twelfth edition of Asia's continental sevens circuit. The first leg of the tournament was a qualifier for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in South Africa. Japan and China qualified for the World Cup.[1]

The lower-tier Trophy tournaments, hosted in Lebanon, Uzbekistan and Thailand served as qualifiers, with the winners eligible to compete in the main series.

Teams

8 teams competed in the main series.

Schedule

Incheon, Huizhou and Colombo were originally scheduled as legs of the 2021 series,[2] but all were eventually cancelled due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and replaced by two events in the United Arab Emirates.[3] [4] The official schedule for the 2021 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series is:[5]

Standings

Legend
Qualified to 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens
Relegated for 2022 Series
width=40Rankwidth=180Teamwidth=120Dubaiwidth=100Points
12 12
10 10
8 8
4 7 7
5 4 4
6 3 3
7 2 2
8 1 1

Tournaments

Dubai

The Tournament was held from the 19 to 20 November in Dubai.

Pool stage

Legend
Advances to Cup
Advances to Plate
Pool A
Teams +/-
3 3 0 0 99 12 87 9
3 1 1 1 60 26 34 6
3 1 1 1 45 27 18 6
3 0 0 3 5 144 -139 3
Pool B
Teams +/-
3 3 0 0 114 15 99 9
3 2 0 1 97 32 65 7
3 1 0 2 17 95 -78 5
3 0 0 3 25 111 -86 3

Knockout stage

Plate

Cup[6]

Trophy

The women's trophy events were supposed to be held in three places. The Trophy events scheduled for Central and South Asia, and, East and South East Asia appear to have been cancelled.[7]

Trophy West Asia

Round-robin
Team
4 3 1 0 131 19 +112 21 3 18 -->11
4 3 0 1 85 41 +44 13 8 5 -->10
4 2 0 2 6959 +10 11 9 2 -->8
4 1 1 2 37 31 +6 7 5 2 -->7
4 0 4 0 7 176 −169 1 28 −27 -->4
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-11-21. Four Asian teams book their berths at Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 in Cape Town. 2021-11-23. Asia Rugby. en-US.
  2. Web site: Asia Rugby Competitions 2021 . Asia Rugby . 13 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201213162106/https://www.asiarugby.com/asia-rugby-calendar-2021/ . 13 December 2020.
  3. Web site: Asia Rugby Sevens Series 2021 Update . https://web.archive.org/web/20210822092807/https://www.asiarugby.com/2021/08/06/sevens-series-2021-update/ . 22 August 2021 . 6 August 2021.
  4. Web site: Asia Rugby Competitions 2021 . Asia Rugby . 20 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210720094906/https://www.asiarugby.com/asia-rugby-calendar-2021/ . 20 July 2021.
  5. Web site: Asia Rugby Competitions 2021. Asia Rugby. 4 July 2021. 17 July 2021.
  6. Web site: Dialog Asia Rugby Women's Seven Series 2021. 2021-11-23. Asia Rugby. en-US.
  7. Web site: 2021-09-10. Your Guide to the Asia Rugby 2021 Competitions. 2021-11-12. RugbyAsia247. en-US.
  8. News: UAE gets double victory at the restart of Asia Rugby Sevens Series . 7 November 2021 . PlanetSevnes . 12 October 2021.
  9. Web site: 2021 Asia Rugby West Asia 7s Trophy Womens - Results . Asia Rugby . 7 November 2021.
  10. Web site: 2021 Asia Rugby West Asia 7s Trophy Womens - Table . Asia Rugby . 7 November 2021.
  11. Web site: 2021 Asia Rugby West Asia 7s Trophy Womens - Statistics . Asia Rugby.