First month of racing sees UAE Team Emirates score the most UCI points, Alpecin-Deceuninck score the least
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Now a month in, the 2024 season begins to gain meaningful depth. UAE Team Emirates has already scored over 1600 points so far this season and is in the lead of the UCI ranks, whilst Tudor Pro Cycling Team has had a fantastic start to the year and is fighting for the wildcards in the 2025 season.
The Emirati team has this as a big goal for the season and began to make the difference early. Team Visma | Lease a Bike, expected to be the main rival team for the season, has only 758 points to date.
In the bottom we have, surprisingly, Alpecin-Deceuninc. The Belgian team has only scored 258 points so far this season and is well below the rest of it's competition. It is in fact only the 27th best scoring team, and has less than half the points of Astana Qazaqstan Team - the penultimate team, scoring wise. Mathieu van der Poel, Jasper Philipsen and Kaden Groves are all yet to start their season.
The fight for the maintenance at the end of the 2025 season continues and every point means something. At the time being, Arkéa - B&B Hotels and Astana Qazaqstan Team remain around 2000 points below the red line. Decathlon AG2R La Moniale Team and Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL are the two teams just above the line, in their own internal competition. Both Lotto Dstny and Israel - Premier Tech are above the line and in position to regain their World Tour status.
The two teams also score the most points out of all ProTeam outfits so far this season and are in position to get automatic wildcards for all World Tour events next season. Tudor Pro Cycling Team closely follows the Belgian team however. The three are, for the time being, above the rest of the competition head and shoulders.
UCI points scored in 2024 (up until 13/2):
1 UAE Team Emirates WT 1601
2 Team Jayco AlUla WT 1473
3 INEOS Grenadiers WT 1407
4 EF Education - EasyPost WT 1332
5 Israel - Premier Tech PRT 1270
6 Intermarché - Wanty WT 1162
7 BORA - hansgrohe WT 1128
8 Soudal - Quick Step WT 1078
9 Movistar Team WT 1046
10 Lidl - Trek WT 1045
11 Groupama - FDJ WT 990
12 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team WT 931
13 Cofidis WT 924
14 Lotto Dstny PRT 824
15 Team Visma | Lease a Bike WT 758
16 Arkéa - B&B Hotels WT 715
17 Tudor Pro Cycling Team PRT 702
18 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL WT 616
19 Bahrain - Victorious WT 601
20 Astana Qazaqstan Team WT 549
21 Burgos - BH PRT 485
22 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA PRT 472
23 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team PRT 414
24 VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè PRT 363
25 Uno-X Mobility PRT 352
26 Team Polti Kometa PRT 331
27 Alpecin - Deceuninck WT 258
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After the first month of racing in 2024, Arkéa and Astana remain in the WorldTour relegation zone with a 2000 point deficit. As for the battle for the 2025 wildcards, Tudor is in contention thanks to a solid start to the season.
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