2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series the 23rd annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. South Africa opened the series by winning the first four tournaments in the Series, with a 36 match winning streak that lasted until the 2022 Singapore Sevens where they were beaten by the United States in pool play. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999. Core teams. The core teams remained unchanged from the previous series due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic which curtailed the last two seasons . The sixteen core teams qualified to participate in all 2021–22 tournaments : Tour venues. The schedule for the series : 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. 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 where a team did not compete. Placings summary. Tallies of top-four placings in tournaments during the 2021–22 series, by team: Player statistics. Scoring. Updated: 17 April 2022 Performance. Key: (T) = 1 point, (B) = 3 points, (O) = 2 points, (C) = 1 point Updated: 17 April 2022