UCI Rankings 2023-2025 | Mark Cavendish and Arnaud Démare's teams remain at risk of relegation

We are currently in the middle of the 2023-2025 UCI Rankings cycle, which will decide the 18 teams that will be attributed a World Tour license from the 2026 season onwards. Whilst UAE Team Emirates largely dominates the rankings, at the bottom the Tour de France has not seen life get any easier for Astana Qazaqstan Team and Arkéa - B&B Hotels that continue to be in serious risk of relegation at the end of next year.

At the top is UAE, who was largely matched with Team Visma | Lease a Bike at the end of last season, but has completely dominated the 2024 season so far and is almost 15.000 points ahead (a gap almost completely created over the past 7 months). INEOS Grenadiers, Soudal - Quick-Step and Lidl-Trek following (not closely) as the next best teams. We have Lotto Dstny in 9th place and Israel - Premier Tech in 14th place. If nothing weird happens, both teams (who were relegated at the end of 2022) will get a World Tour license once again in 2026 as both have consistently been performing strongly and area ahead of the teams in the battle.

This means two teams will lose their license at the highest level of the sport - unless meaningful changes occur in the next months. The situation grows increasingly dramatic for Astana Qazaqstan Team who, despite reportedly having a big investment coming from a Chinese sponsor, has 11.711 points only. It is now in 21st place, having been overtaken by Uno-X Mobility, the third ProTeam which may even enter the fight to enter the World Tour.

Uno-X has 12.880 points and in 19th place is the other World Tour team at risk of losing their status: Arkéa - B&B Hotels, with 13.493 points. The French team is also in a dramatic position, but one that can be fixed, as they are around 1500 points behind Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL who holds the last World Tour spot. The Dutch team and Cofidis (17th place) are separated by less than 700 points, and Cofidis is around 1300 points behind Intermarché - Wanty who have scored significant points now at the Tour de France. As the gaps grow at the bottom, it becomes increasingly more difficult for these teams to close them down.

*Note: These are the UCI points scored in total throughout the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons (as 24/07/2024). At the end, the Top18 teams will receive a World Tour license for 2026; others will receive a ProTeam license.

Order Team Current Team Status Points (2023-2025)
1  UAE Team Emirates WT 57031
2  Team Visma | Lease a Bike WT 42226
3  INEOS Grenadiers WT 30034
4  Soudal Quick-Step WT 29774
5  Lidl - Trek WT 27651
6  Alpecin - Deceuninck WT 25077
7  Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe WT 23660
8  Bahrain - Victorious WT 22778
9  Lotto Dstny PRT 22231
10  Groupama - FDJ WT 22061
11  Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team WT 20197
12  EF Education - EasyPost WT 19759
13  Movistar Team WT 18163
14  Israel - Premier Tech PRT 18074
15  Team Jayco AlUla WT 17557
16  Intermarché - Wanty WT 16954
17  Cofidis WT 15635
18  Team dsm-firmenich PostNL WT 14994
19  Arkéa - B&B Hotels WT 13493
20  Uno-X Mobility PRT 12880
21  Astana Qazaqstan Team WT 11711
22  TotalEnergies PRT 8995
23  Tudor Pro Cycling Team PRT 6235
24  Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team PRT 5839
25  VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè PRT 5601
26  Caja Rural - Seguros RGA PRT 4658
27  Team Polti Kometa PRT 4176
28  Burgos - BH PRT 3842
29  Equipo Kern Pharma PRT 2761
31  Bingoal WB PRT 2348
32  Team Corratec - Vini Fantini PRT 2138
33  Euskaltel - Euskadi PRT 2127
34  TDT - Unibet Cycling Team PRT 1814
36  Team Flanders - Baloise PRT 1374
37  Team Novo Nordisk PRT 597

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