The 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 23rd annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999.

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2021–22 World Rugby Sevens
Series XXIII
Hosts	United Arab Emirates Spain Singapore Canada France England United States
Date	26 November 2021 – 28 August 2022
Final positions
Champions	Australia
Runners-up	South Africa
Third	Fiji
Series details
Top try scorer	Terry Kennedy (50)
Top point scorer	Dietrich Roache (343)
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The series was won by Australia 7s, claiming their first World Series title. Second-placed South Africa opened the competition by winning the first four tournaments, with a 36-match winning streak that lasted until the 2022 Singapore Sevens where they were beaten by the United States in pool play,^[1] but they did not make the semifinals in any of the remaining events.

There was no relegation required at the end of the season as the number of core teams was reduced when England, Scotland and Wales were combined to play as Great Britain for the 2022–23 series.^[2]

The core teams remained unchanged from the previous series due to the impact 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:

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

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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

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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.

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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

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Source: World Rugby

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Tallies of top-four placings in tournaments during the 2021–22 series, by team:

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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

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• 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)