Whereas the boys’s battle to keep away from relegation from or achieve promotion to the WorldTour in 2026 wages on, the composition of the Girls’s WorldTour within the coming three years is solidifying.
The ladies’s groups have to fulfill an analogous sporting standards to the boys’s, besides the ladies’s groups should make the highest 15 within the 2024-2025 UCI Group Rankings quite than the highest 18, as their most variety of WorldTour groups is 15.
From 2026 onward, the ladies’s peloton can be on the identical three-year promotion/relegation schedule, and licences awarded for 2026 will final via the tip of the 2028 season. The primary deadline for making use of for 2026 group licences comes on Wednesday, August 15, when groups should state their intent to hunt both a WorldTour or ProTeam licence.
EF Schooling-Oatly confirmed to Cyclingnews their intent to hunt promotion to the WorldTour. The US group are presently twelfth within the two-year standings and in little hazard of dropping out of the highest 15.
In the meantime, the Roland Le Dévoluy group are the one present WorldTour group to overlook out on the highest 15. The group confirmed to Cyclingnews that they won’t proceed within the WorldTour, however intend to use to be a ProTeam. The group are 18th within the 2024-2025 rankings and virtually 3,000 factors away from making the requirement to be within the prime 15.
There’s uncertainty across the Ceratizit group after the title sponsor introduced they are going to finish sponsorship of the group on the finish of this season. The group have been looking for a brand new sponsor, and could be eligible to stay within the WorldTour as they’re ranked eleventh.
Ought to the Ceratizit group finish, the Volkerwessels group could be the Fifteenth-ranked group and, in the event that they maintain this place, they’d be eligible to hitch the WorldTour.
