2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series

The 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 24th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for men's national teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999. This series doubled as a qualifier for the 2024 Olympic Games, with the top four countries, excluding hosts France, qualifying automatically.^[1]

2022–23 World Rugby Sevens
Series XXIV
Hosts	Hong Kong (2 events) United Arab Emirates South Africa New Zealand Australia United States Canada Singapore France England
Date	4 November 2022 – 21 May 2023
Nations	15 core
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (14th title)
Runners-up	Argentina
Third	Fiji
Series details
Top try scorer	Vaa Apelu Maliko (50)
Top point scorer	Akuila Rokolisoa (415)
← 2021–22 2023–24 →

The series was won by New Zealand, winning five of the eleven tour events held during the season on their way to claiming their fourteenth World Series title. The next placed teams were, in order, Argentina, Fiji, France, Australia.

Core teams

The core teams eligible to participate in all tournaments for 2022–23 were:^[2]

•  Argentina
•  Australia
•  Canada
•  Fiji
•  France
•  Great Britain
•  Ireland
•  Japan
•  Kenya
•  New Zealand
•  Samoa
•  South Africa
•  Spain
•  United States
•  Uruguay

Uruguay 7s was promoted to core team status by winning the 2022 Challenger Series.^[3] The unions of England, Scotland and Wales agreed to merge their teams to compete as Great Britain 7s for the 2022–23 series onward.^[4][5]

Tour venues

The eleven-event schedule for the series was:^[6]

2022–23 Itinerary

Leg	Stadium	City	Dates	Winner
Hong Kong 2022	Hong Kong Stadium	Hong Kong	4–6 November 2022	Australia
Dubai	The Sevens Stadium	Dubai	2–3 December 2022	South Africa
South Africa	DHL Stadium	Cape Town	9–11 December 2022	Samoa
New Zealand	Waikato Stadium	Hamilton	21–22 January 2023	Argentina
Australia	Sydney Football Stadium	Sydney	27–29 January 2023	New Zealand
United States	Dignity Health Sports Park	Los Angeles	25–26 February 2023	New Zealand
Canada	BC Place	Vancouver	3–5 March 2023	Argentina
Hong Kong 2023	Hong Kong Stadium	Hong Kong	31 March – 2 April 2023	New Zealand
Singapore	National Stadium	Singapore	8–9 April 2023	New Zealand
France	Stade Ernest-Wallon	Toulouse	12–14 May 2023	New Zealand
England	Twickenham Stadium	London	20–21 May 2023	Argentina

Standings

For the tie-breaker rules, see World Rugby Sevens Series § Tiebreakers.

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. A dash (—) is recorded where a team did not compete.

2022–23 World Rugby Sevens – Men's Series XXIV

Pos	Event  Team	Hong Kong I	Dubai	Cape Town	Hamilton	Sydney	Los Angeles	Vancouver	Hong Kong II	Singapore	Toulouse	London	Total points
1	New Zealand	8	17	19	19	22	22	13	22	22	22	14	200
2	Argentina	13	12	12	22	8	19	22	13	19	19	20	179
3	Fiji	19	8	13	10	17	17	10	19	17	8	18	156
4	France	17	13	8	15	15	8	19	17	10	17	12	151
5	Australia	22	10	7	13	10	15	17	5	13	13	8	133
6	Samoa	15	10	22	8	13	13	8	7	15	5	16	132
7	South Africa	10	22	15	10	19	10	3	12	5	10	4	120
8	Ireland	10	19	5	12	12	10	15	8	1	12	10	114
9	Great Britain	5	5	10	5	10	12	10	15	12	10	6	100
10	United States	12	15	17	17	5	3	12	10	3	1	3	98
11	Spain	5	3	5	3	2	7	5	10	8	7	2	57
12	Uruguay	3	7	10	1	3	5	5	5	10	5	0	54
13	Kenya	1	5	3	7	5	1	7	1	7	3	0	40
14	Canada	7	2	2	2	1	5	1	2	2	15	0	39
15	Japan	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	5	2	0	18
16	Tonga	—	—	—	5	7	—	—	—	—	—	0	12
17	Hong Kong	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	1	—	—	5
18	Chile	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	—	2
19	Uganda	—	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2
20	Germany	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	1

Source: World Rugby at archive.today (archived 2023-05-23)

Legend
Qualification for the 2024 Olympic Sevens
Qualified as one of the four highest-placed eligible teams in the 2022–23 World Sevens Series [1]
Automatically qualified (host country France)
Qualification for the 2023–24 World Sevens Series
Participated in the final round play-offs for core team status on the 2023–24 World Sevens Series
No colour	Core team and re-qualified as a core team for the 2023–24 World Sevens Series
Pink	Relegated from core team status for 2023–24 [7]
Yellow	Invited team

Placings summary

Tallies of top-four placings in tournaments during the 2022–23 series, by team:

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth	Total
New Zealand	5	2	1	1	9
Argentina	3	3	—	—	6
South Africa	1	1	—	1	3
Samoa	1	—	1	2	4
Australia	1	—	1	1	3
Fiji	—	3	3	—	6
France	—	1	3	2	6
Ireland	—	1	—	1	2
United States	—	—	2	1	3
Canada	—	—	—	1	1
Great Britain	—	—	—	1	1

Player statistics

Dream Team

Rodrigo Isgró Leroy Carter Akuila Rojolisoa Marcos Moneta Luciano González Rizzoni Vaa Apelu Maliko Henry Paterson

Reference:^[8]

Scoring

Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Vaa Apelu Maliko 50 2 Marcos Moneta 47 3 Akuila Rokolisoa 43 4 Perry Baker 35 5 Nathan Lawson 34 Updated: 4 June 2023[9]

Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Akuila Rokolisoa 415 2 Waisea Nacuqu 317 3 Dietrich Roache 262 4 Vaa Apelu Maliko 252 5 Paul Scanlan 246 Updated: 4 June 2023[9]

Performance

Impact Player winner by event Tour Leg Player Pts Ref Hong Kong I Vaa Apelu Maliko 75 [10] Aaron Grandidier 75 Dubai Joseva Talacolo 54 [11] Cape Town Manueli Maisamoa 76 [12] Hamilton Dietrich Roache 70 [13] Sydney Manueli Maisamoa 84 [14] Los Angeles Josiah Morra 59 [15] Vancouver Theo Forner 70 [16] Hong Kong II Andrew Smith 70 [17] Singapore Joseva Talacolo 72 [18] Toulouse Manu Moreno 67 [19] London Akuila Rokolisoa 71 [20]

Overall season Impact Player points # Player T B O C Tot 1 Vaa Apelu Maliko 122 41 55 214 569 2 Dietrich Roache 134 32 59 198 546 3 Manueli Maisamoa 129 29 58 167 499 4 Akuila Rokolisoa 88 37 58 164 479 5 Varian Pasquet 93 16 71 187 470 6 Rodrigo Isgro 104 29 35 192 453 7 Henry Paterson 107 28 29 187 436 8 Luciano Gonzalez 69 32 27 200 419 9 Matías Osadczuk 107 25 37 160 416 10 Josiah Morra 109 26 15 184 401 Key: T: Tackles (1 pt), B: Breaks (3 pts), O: Offloads (2 pts), C: Carries (1 pt) Source: DHL Impact Player Table at archive.today (archived 22 May 2023)

Tournaments

Hong Kong 2022

Main article: 2022 Hong Kong Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	Australia	20–17	Fiji	France (Bronze)  Samoa
5th place	Argentina	36–0	United States	Ireland  South Africa
9th place	New Zealand	33–5	Canada	Great Britain  Spain
13th place	Uruguay	33–10	Japan	Hong Kong  Kenya

Dubai

Main article: 2022 Dubai Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	South Africa	21–5	Ireland	New Zealand (Bronze)  United States
5th place	France	19–12	Argentina	Australia  Samoa
9th place	Fiji	47–0	Uruguay	Great Britain  Kenya
13th place	Spain	38–7	Canada	Japan  Uganda

Cape Town

Main article: 2022 South Africa Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	Samoa	12–7	New Zealand	United States (Bronze)  South Africa
5th place	Fiji	29–5	Argentina	Great Britain  Uruguay
9th place	France	24–12	Australia	Ireland  Spain
13th place	Kenya	21–10	Canada	Japan  Uganda

Hamilton

Main article: 2023 New Zealand Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	Argentina	14–12	New Zealand	United States (Bronze)  France
5th place	Australia	26–17	Ireland	Fiji  South Africa
9th place	Samoa	26–5	Kenya	Great Britain  Tonga
13th place	Spain	24–14	Canada	Japan  Uruguay

Sydney

Main article: 2023 Sydney Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	New Zealand	38–0	South Africa	Fiji (Bronze)  France
5th place	Samoa	24–12	Ireland	Australia  Great Britain
9th place	Argentina	21–19	Tonga	Kenya  United States
13th place	Uruguay	26–5	Spain	Canada  Japan

Los Angeles

Main article: 2023 USA Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	New Zealand	22–12	Argentina	Fiji (Bronze)  Australia
5th place	Samoa	24–19	Great Britain	Ireland  South Africa
9th place	France	26–24	Spain	Canada  Uruguay
13th place	United States	31–7	Japan	Chile  Kenya

Vancouver

Main article: 2023 Canada Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	Argentina	33–21	France	Australia (Bronze)  Ireland
5th place	New Zealand	50–7	United States	Fiji  Great Britain
9th place	Samoa	35–17	Kenya	Spain  Uruguay
13th place	South Africa	17–5	Japan	Canada  Chile

Hong Kong 2023

Main article: 2023 Hong Kong Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	New Zealand	24–17	Fiji	France (Bronze)  Great Britain
5th place	Argentina	7–5	South Africa	Spain  United States
9th place	Ireland	19–17	Samoa	Australia  Uruguay
13th place	Hong Kong	17–7	Canada	Japan  Kenya

Singapore

Main article: 2023 Singapore Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	New Zealand	19–17	Argentina	Fiji (Bronze)  Samoa
5th place	Australia	24–21	Great Britain	France  Uruguay
9th place	Spain	26–10	Kenya	Japan  South Africa
13th place	United States	22–17	Canada	Hong Kong  Ireland

Toulouse

Main article: 2023 France Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	New Zealand	24–19	Argentina	France (Bronze)  Canada
5th place	Australia	26–21	Ireland	Great Britain  South Africa
9th place	Fiji	26–15	Spain	Samoa  Uruguay
13th place	Kenya	33–12	Japan	Germany  United States

London

Main article: 2023 London Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semifinalists
Cup	Argentina	35–14	Fiji	Samoa (Bronze)  New Zealand
5th place	France	21–19	Ireland	Australia (7th)  Great Britain
9th place	South Africa	47–5	United States	Spain (11th)  Japan
Relegation playoffs	Canada	12–7	Kenya	Tonga  Uruguay

See also

• 2022–23 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series