2022 France Women's Sevens Explained

Countries:	France
Series:	Women's Sevens Series IX
Date:	20–22 May 2022
Matches:	34
Tries:	194
Top Point Scorer:	Joanna Grisez (11 tries)
Top Try Scorer:	Joanna Grisez (55 points)
Prevseason:	2019
Nextseason:	2023

The 2022 France Women's Sevens was the final rugby sevens event on the 2021–22 Women's Sevens Series. An annual Series event since 2016, it was the first event to be played since 2019 due to the impacts of COVID-19. The defending champions from the 2019 series event were the United States, whom beat New Zealand 26–10.^[1]

New Zealand won in the Final against Australia 21–14.^[2]

Format

The twelve teams are drawn into three pools of four. Each team will play their other three opponents in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup bracket, with the two best third-placed teams also advancing. The remaining four teams will compete for a 9th–12th placing.

Teams

The twelve national women's teams competing in France were:^[3]

• Scotland returned to the series as an invited team. Their previous appearance as an individual team was also in France, at the most previous event (2019 Biarritz).^[4]
• South Africa was an invited team for the tournament and made their first appearance on the World Series since their home event in 2019, Cape Town.

Pool stage

The team composition of the pool stage was announced on 4 May.^[5]

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Ranking of third-placed teams

width=175	Team	width=25 abbr="Played"	Pld	width=25 abbr="Won"	W	width=25 abbr="Drawn"	D	width=25 abbr="Lost"	L	width=32 abbr="Points for"	PF	width=32 abbr="Points against"	PA	width=32 abbr="Points difference"	PD	width=25 abbr="Points"	Pts
	3	1	0	2	52	48	+4	5
	3	1	0	2	34	57	–23	5
	3	1	0	2	29	62	–33	5

Knockout stage

Placings

Place	Team	Points
		20
		18
		16
4		14
5		12
6		10

Place	Team	Points
7		8
8		6
9		4
10		3
11		2
12		1

Source: World Rugby

See also

• 2022 France Sevens (for men)

External links

• Tournament site

Notes and References

1. Web site: USA claim first Cup title as New Zealand win series in Biarritz . 16 June 2019 . .
2. Web site: Fiji and New Zealand the winners after a brilliant HSBC France Sevens . 22 May 2022 . World Rugby .
3. Web site: Captains ready for lift off at HSBC France Sevens . 18 May 2022 . world.rugby . World Rugby .
4. Web site: Final squads confirmed for HSBC France Women's Sevens . 14 June 2019 . World Rugby .
5. WorldRugby7s . 1521505305636581376 .
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