The UCI issued a listing 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 have been as a result of welcome Chinese language carbon product producer XDS Carbon-Tech as a sponsor to help “important adjustments” within the crew.
Workforce supervisor Alexandre Vinokourov performed down the missed deadline in a press release to Cyclingnews.
“Certainly, in the course of the means of submitting paperwork for the affirmation of our WorldTour license, a query arose concerning the wording of the financial institution assure doc, and clarifications have been requested, which the crew supplied,” Vinokourov mentioned.
“Sadly, extra coordination between the banks required a while, which is why our crew was not included within the checklist printed by the UCI at present. In any case, the registration and license affirmation course of with the UCI is continuing in accordance with the necessities, and our crew is just not dealing with any difficulties.”
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Astana have lagged behind their fellow WorldTour groups within the UCI Rankings since 2023. They’re nicely behind within the World Rankings that may 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’ similar to UAE Workforce Emirates and Visma-Lease a Bike.
By lacking the deadline, the crew might start dropping riders as UCI guidelines now enable them to terminate their contracts early. Nevertheless, if the crew can finalize their registration, the riders would lose the proper to depart prematurely.
Most frequently, groups miss the deadline as a result of a lacking doc or element and the registration is resolved earlier than the subsequent deadline. Nevertheless, 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 depart the crew. Nevertheless, the outfit ultimately 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.
Ladies’s WorldTeams
- AG Insurance coverage Soudal
- Canyon-SRAM Racing
- FDJ-Suez
- Fenix-Deceuninck
- Human Powered Well being
- Lidl-Trek
- Liv-Alula-Jayco
- Movistar Workforce
- Roland
- Workforce DSM-Firmenich
- Workforce SD Worx-Protime
- Workforce Visma-Lease a Bike
- UAE Workforce ADQ
- Uno-X Mobility
Males’s WorldTeams
- Alpecin-Deceuninck
- Arkea-B&B Resorts
- Bahrain Victorious
- Cofidis
- Decathlon AG2R la Mondiale Workforce
- EF Training-Easypost
- Groupama-FDJ
- Ineos Grenadiers
- Intermarche-Wanty
- Lidl-Trek
- Movistar Workforce
- Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
- Soudal Fast-Step
- Workforce DSM-Firmenich Postnl
- Workforce Jayco Alula
- Workforce Visma-Lease a Bike
- UAE Workforce Emirates
Males’s ProTeams
- Burgos BH
- Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
- Equipo Kern Pharma
- Euskaltel-Euskadi
- Israel-Premier Tech
- Lotto
- 5 Professional Biking Workforce
- Workforce Flanders-Baloise
- Workforce Novo Nordisk
- Workforce Polti Visitmalta
- Toscana Manufacturing unit Workforce Vini Fantini
- Totalenergies
- Tudor Professional Biking Workforce
- Unibet Tietema Rockets
- Uno-X Mobility
- VF Group Bardiani CSF-Faizane’
- Wagner Bazin WB
Ladies’s ProTeams
- Arkea B&B Resorts Ladies
- Cofidis Ladies Workforce
- EF Training-Oatly
- Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
- St Michel Mavic Auber93
- Volkerwessels Ladies’s Professional Biking Workforce