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 girls’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 girls’s groups utilized for the newly launched ProTeam standing.
Ceratizit-WNT didn’t meet the deadline however the crew acknowledged to Cyclingnews that their utility was held up by an administrative situation that has since been corrected, and so they 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 language carbon product producer XDS Carbon-Tech as a sponsor to help “important adjustments” within the crew.
Crew supervisor Alexandre Vinokourov performed down the missed deadline in an announcement 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 had 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 listing revealed by the UCI immediately. In any case, the registration and license affirmation course of with the UCI is continuing in accordance with the necessities, and our crew isn’t going through 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’ resembling UAE Crew Emirates and Visma-Lease a Bike.
By lacking the deadline, the crew might start shedding riders as UCI guidelines now permit them to terminate their contracts early. Nevertheless, if the crew can finalize their registration, the riders would lose the precise 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 didn’t 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 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 utility 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 Crew
- Roland
- Crew DSM-Firmenich
- Crew SD Worx-Protime
- Crew Visma-Lease a Bike
- UAE Crew ADQ
- Uno-X Mobility
Males’s WorldTeams
- Alpecin-Deceuninck
- Arkea-B&B Inns
- Bahrain Victorious
- Cofidis
- Decathlon AG2R la Mondiale Crew
- EF Schooling-Easypost
- Groupama-FDJ
- Ineos Grenadiers
- Intermarche-Wanty
- Lidl-Trek
- Movistar Crew
- Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
- Soudal Fast-Step
- Crew DSM-Firmenich Postnl
- Crew Jayco Alula
- Crew Visma-Lease a Bike
- UAE Crew Emirates
Males’s ProTeams
- Burgos BH
- Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
- Equipo Kern Pharma
- Euskaltel-Euskadi
- Israel-Premier Tech
- Lotto
- 5 Professional Biking Crew
- Crew Flanders-Baloise
- Crew Novo Nordisk
- Crew Polti Visitmalta
- Toscana Manufacturing unit Crew Vini Fantini
- Totalenergies
- Tudor Professional Biking Crew
- Unibet Tietema Rockets
- Uno-X Mobility
- VF Group Bardiani CSF-Faizane’
- Wagner Bazin WB
Ladies’s ProTeams
- Arkea B&B Inns Ladies
- Cofidis Ladies Crew
- EF Schooling-Oatly
- Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
- St Michel Mavic Auber93
- Volkerwessels Ladies’s Professional Biking Crew
