How to observe cyclocross: Live streams, TV channels, schedule for 2024/25 season

The 2024-25 cyclocross season intensifies this week, with a packed festive schedule over the Christmas interval, with races from all the foremost sequence and the most important stars, akin to Mathieu van der Poel, within the thick of the motion. 

This season, there are 4 massive competitions to observe, with the Belgium- and Netherlands-based Superprestige, X2O Trofee and Exact Cross sequence joined by the UCI World Cup, which additionally options upcoming occasions in France and Spain.

The motion runs all the best way to February, with the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships going down in Liévin, France on February 1-2, 2025.

Riders together with Fem van Empel, Lars van der Haar, Lucinda Brand, Eli Iserbyt, Annemarie Worst, Ceylin Del Carmen Alvarado, Michael Vanthourenhout and Thibau Nys have all been exhausting at it because the begin of the season again in November. 

However, pleasure has solely simply ramped up, with the late arrival of the game’s two greatest stars, Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert. 

Van der Poel gained on the first time of asking on his season debut on the World Cup in Zonhoven on December 22, whereas Van Aert was presupposed to return at Superprestige Mol on December 23 however sickness has pressured him to reschedule for the Exact Cross Loenhout on December 27 – the place a gathering with Van der Poel awaits. 

Read on for our information on how one can watch cyclocross on-line, on TV, and from anyplace on the earth. 

What cyclocross races are on TV this week?

Cyclocross free streams

Good information for biking followers: you may watch cyclocross without cost, in lots of elements of the world.

The sport’s governing physique, the UCI, hosts free streams for the UCI World Cup sequence and UCI World Championships by itself UCI YouTube channel. Coverage is, nevertheless, geo-restricted, and is barely out there in nations the place a TV deal hasn’t been struck with an exterior broadcaster. 

Geo-restrictions fluctuate by occasion, however followers within the UK and Ireland will all the time be blocked from the feed given Eurosport and Discovery+ present all World Cup and World Championship races. The feed is, nevertheless, typically freely out there within the US, Canada, and Australia. 

Given cyclocross’ sturdy roots in Belgium, races from all of the sequence are frequently proven by the free-to-air public broadcasters – VRT / Sporza within the Flemish-speaking north and RTBF within the French-speaking south. The Superprestige, X2O Trofee, and Exact Cross sequence are all lined. Likewise, over the border the Dutch public broadcaster NOS typically has free reside streams on its platform, NPO Start.

Coverage varies by occasion, however we’ll maintain you updated all through the cyclocross season with our devoted How To Watch pages for all the massive races.

Away from dwelling? You can nonetheless entry your common streams, by utilizing a VPN – extra on that under.

Watch cyclocross from anyplace

If you’re outdoors of your property area and must entry your reside streaming companies to observe the motion, chances are you’ll discover your entry to be geo-restricted. But that does not imply you may’t watch the races. 

In this case, a VPN will come in useful. A Virtual Private Network – to provide it its full identify – permits your laptop to fake it is in a special nation, letting you log into your streaming accounts to catch the entire racing motion.

Our professional colleagues at TechRadar suggest utilizing a VPN for streaming in addition to enhanced cyber-security – they know a factor or two about VPNs and proper now they charge NordVPN because the best VPN available on the market. 

Watch cyclocross reside streams within the US

Cyclocross protection within the US is slightly patchy, with protection cut up between Flobikes and Max. 

FloBikes is a cycling-specific streaming platform that provides cyclocross motion from numerous sequence, together with the World Cups. However, its schedule doesn’t cowl the whole sequence, and is liable to modifications, so it is price maintaining a tally of what they’ve arising. A subscription to Flobikes will set you again $149.99  for the yr or $29.99 on a month-to-month foundation. 

Max, in the meantime, is the US-based streaming platform owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, which began including biking rights in 2024. That contains some cyclocross protection throughout the Superprestige, Exact Cross, and X2O Trofee sequence, however doesn’t embrace the UCI World Cup sequence or the UCI World Championships. Max subscriptions begin from $10 a month however you will want the B/R Sports add-on, which prices an additional $10 a month.

That stated, you would discover the top-level motion without cost, with the UCI YouTube cyclocross World Cup free reside stream not all the time geo-restricted within the US. 

Watch cyclocross in Canada

FloBikes additionally operates in Canada and shall be carrying a lot of the protection they provide within the US. Check their schedule for the newest up-to-date info.

A FloBikes subscription will set you again CAN$150 for the yr or CAN$29.99 on a month-to-month foundation. 

Some UCI World Cup occasions will even be aired in Canada without cost on the UCI Youtube web page.

Watch cyclocross reside streams within the UK & Ireland

Eurosport and Discovery+ invoice themselves because the ‘dwelling of biking’ within the UK and so they as soon as once more have a packed programme for the 2024-2025 cyclocross season. You can watch all of the UCI World Cup rounds, the UCI World Championships, and motion from the Superprestige, X2O Trofee, and Exact Cross sequence, as properly. 

Eurosport is the TV channel, out there on most packages, whereas Discovery+ is the net streaming platform, the place you will discover all of the cyclocross racing extra constantly out there. 

A ‘customary’ subscription to Discovery+, which is all it’s essential get Eurosport’s biking protection, will set you again £6.99 / €4.99 per 30 days or £59.99 / €49.99 per yr. 

Fans within the UK, in different phrases, have it good, however will discover themselves locked out of the UCI’s free stream, as outlined above. If you are a Discovery+ subscriber desirous to get your protection outdoors the UK, otherwise you’re visiting the UK and need your common UCI YouTube feed, in each circumstances you’d want a VPN, akin to NordVPN.

Watch cyclocross world wide

For Belgian commentary and protection of the entire prime cyclocross sequence from the nation that is aware of cyclocross finest, head to Sporza or RTBF – without cost. Just over within the Netherlands, it is on NOS.

As within the UK, Eurosport’s protection goes out throughout most of Europe. Somewhat confusingly, you get this in two totally different locations relying on the place you’re, so for some nations it is Discovery+ and in others it is Max (however separate from the US Max). 

It’s the World Cup that pulls the most important vary of worldwide broadcasters, and you will find most races on RAI in Italy, TV2 in Denmark, J Sports in Japan, Astro in Malaysia, STVR in Slovakia, and CT Sport within the Czech Republic. 

For a full checklist of worldwide broadcasters for the World Cup occasions, the UCI publishes a listing every spherical on the UCI website.

Don’t overlook, the cyclocross is on the market completely without cost within the nations that do not have a broadcaster, hosted on the UCI YouTube channel. And do not forget, you may tune in from anyplace for those who’re on the transfer, by utilizing a VPN.

2024-25 cyclocross schedule