The UCI issued an inventory of 58 groups who’ve submitted all of their paperwork supporting their registration for the 2025 season, with 18 males’s groups and 15 ladies’s groups assembly the October 15 deadline to resume for the approaching season.
All 17 of the present males’s ProTeams utilized for a similar licence for subsequent season, whereas eight ladies’s groups utilized for the newly launched ProTeam standing.
Ceratizit-WNT didn’t meet the deadline however the crew said to Cyclingnews that their software was held up by an administrative problem that has since been corrected, they usually intend to stay within the WorldTour.
Astana Qazaqstan missed the deadline, too, and as of publication had not answered inquiries into their standing. The crew from Kazakhstan had been as a result of welcome Chinese carbon product producer XDS Carbon-Tech as a sponsor to assist “important adjustments” within the crew.
Astana have lagged behind their fellow WorldTour groups within the UCI Rankings since 2023. They are nicely behind within the World Rankings that can decide which groups will meet the sporting standards within the subsequent spherical of promotion and relegation in 2026.
The crew anticipated a long-term partnership with XDS Carbon-Tech to assist them regain their standing and compete with ‘tremendous groups’ equivalent to UAE Team Emirates and Visma-Lease a Bike.
By lacking the deadline, the crew may start shedding riders as UCI guidelines now permit them to terminate their contracts early. However, if the crew can finalize their registration, the riders would lose the precise to depart prematurely.
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Most usually, groups miss the deadline as a result of a lacking doc or element and the registration is resolved earlier than the subsequent deadline. However, generally the crew lacking the October 15 deadline is an indication of main issues, as was the case for Qhubeka-Nexthash in 2022. That crew did not register and dissolved, with supervisor Doug Ryder forming the Q36.5 crew in 2023.
Astana missed the deadline in 2009, resulting in hypothesis that then-star rider Alberto Contador would go away the crew. However, the outfit finally registered for the highest tier and Contador remained with the squad in 2010.
The UCI will finalize the registration of 2025 groups on December 10, 2024, after their exterior auditing agency PwC assesses every software to make sure groups meet the required moral, monetary and administrative standards.
Women’s WorldTeams
- AG Insurance Soudal
- Canyon-SRAM Racing
- FDJ-Suez
- Fenix-Deceuninck
- Human Powered Health
- Lidl-Trek
- Liv-Alula-Jayco
- Movistar Team
- Roland
- Team DSM-Firmenich
- Team SD Worx-Protime
- Team Visma-Lease a Bike
- UAE Team ADQ
- Uno-X Mobility
Men’s WorldTeams
- Alpecin-Deceuninck
- Arkea-B&B Hotels
- Bahrain Victorious
- Cofidis
- Decathlon AG2R la Mondiale Team
- EF Education-Easypost
- Groupama-FDJ
- Ineos Grenadiers
- Intermarche-Wanty
- Lidl-Trek
- Movistar Team
- Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
- Soudal Quick-Step
- Team DSM-Firmenich Postnl
- Team Jayco Alula
- Team Visma-Lease a Bike
- UAE Team Emirates
Men’s ProTeams
- Burgos BH
- Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
- Equipo Kern Pharma
- Euskaltel-Euskadi
- Israel-Premier Tech
- Lotto
- 5 Pro Cycling Team
- Team Flanders-Baloise
- Team Novo Nordisk
- Team Polti Visitmalta
- Toscana Factory Team Vini Fantini
- Totalenergies
- Tudor Pro Cycling Team
- Unibet Tietema Rockets
- Uno-X Mobility
- VF Group Bardiani CSF-Faizane’
- Wagner Bazin WB
Women’s ProTeams
- Arkea B&B Hotels Women
- Cofidis Women Team
- EF Education-Oatly
- Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
- St Michel Mavic Auber93
- Volkerwessels Women’s Pro Cycling Team