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 staff said to Cyclingnews that their software was held up by an administrative subject that has since been corrected, they usually intend to stay within the WorldTour.
Astana Qazaqstan missed the deadline, too. The staff from Kazakhstan have been as a result of welcome Chinese language carbon product producer XDS Carbon-Tech as a sponsor to help “vital adjustments” within the staff.
Crew supervisor Alexandre Vinokourov performed down the missed deadline in an announcement to Cyclingnews.
“Certainly, in the course of the technique of submitting paperwork for the affirmation of our WorldTour license, a query arose relating to the wording of the financial institution assure doc, and clarifications have been requested, which the staff offered,” Vinokourov mentioned.
“Sadly, further coordination between the banks required a while, which is why our staff was not included within the checklist revealed by the UCI in the present day. In any case, the registration and license affirmation course of with the UCI is continuing in accordance with the necessities, and our staff just isn’t dealing with any difficulties.”
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Astana have lagged behind their fellow WorldTour groups within the UCI Rankings since 2023. They’re effectively 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 staff anticipated a long-term partnership with XDS Carbon-Tech to assist them regain their standing and compete with ‘tremendous groups’ similar to UAE Crew Emirates and Visma-Lease a Bike.
By lacking the deadline, the staff might start shedding riders as UCI guidelines now enable them to terminate their contracts early. Nonetheless, if the staff can finalise their registration, the riders would lose the suitable 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 following deadline. Nonetheless, generally the staff lacking the October 15 deadline is an indication of main issues, as was the case for Qhubeka-Nexthash in 2022. That staff didn’t register and dissolved, with supervisor Doug Ryder forming the Q36.5 staff in 2023.
Astana missed the deadline in 2009, resulting in hypothesis that then-star rider Alberto Contador would go away the staff. Nonetheless, the outfit ultimately registered for the highest tier and Contador remained with the squad in 2010.
The UCI will finalise 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 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 Lodges
- Bahrain Victorious
- Cofidis
- Decathlon AG2R la Mondiale Crew
- EF Schooling-Easypost
- Groupama-FDJ
- Ineos Grenadiers
- Intermarche-Wanty
- Lidl-Trek
- Movistar Crew
- Crimson 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 facility 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 Lodges Ladies
- Cofidis Ladies Crew
- EF Schooling-Oatly
- Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
- St Michel Mavic Auber93
- Volkerwessels Ladies’s Professional Biking Crew
