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.
New Zealand won in the Final against Australia 21–14.
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:
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). 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.
Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts330011221+919320110643+637 31023457–235 30030131–1313
Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts3300910+91932014036+4731022962–33530031476–623
Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33006919+50932015338+15731025248+4530032695–693
Ranking of third-placed teams TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts31025248+4531023457–235 31022962–335
Knockout stage 9th–12th playoffs
MatchesSemi-finals
11th place Final
9th place Final
5th–8th playoffs
MatchesSemi-finals
7th place Final
5th place Final
Cup playoffs
MatchesQuarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place
Cup Final
Placings
PlaceTeam Points 20 18 16 4 14 5 12 6 10
PlaceTeam Points 7 8 8 6 9 4 10 3 11 2 12 1
Source: World Rugby
See also 2022 France Sevens (for men)
References
External links Tournament site