# 2025 UCI World Tour
The 2025 [UCI World Tour](https://www.edgepedia.org/uci-world-tour) was the elite men's professional road cycling series sanctioned by the [Union Cycliste Internationale](https://www.edgepedia.org/union-cycliste-internationale) (UCI), comprising 36 events, from the Santos Tour Down Under to the Gree-Tour of Guangxi.[1](https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-rolls-out-2025-road-calendar-with-copenhagen-sprint-added-to-mens-and-womens-worldtour/) The season was dominated by Tadej Pogačar of UAE Team Emirates-XRG, who topped the UCI World Ranking for a fifth consecutive year, and it closed a three-year licensing cycle whose end reallocated all 18 WorldTeam licenses for 2026–2028.[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) • [3](https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/registration-of-uci-professional-teams-for-the-2025-season/4Wja2JGilXFVzM2zZga3Ba)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Calendar | 36 men's events, opening at the Tour Down Under and closing at the Tour of Guangxi[1](https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-rolls-out-2025-road-calendar-with-copenhagen-sprint-added-to-mens-and-womens-worldtour/) |
| Teams | 18 UCI WorldTeams and 17 UCI ProTeams registered for 2025[3](https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/registration-of-uci-professional-teams-for-the-2025-season/4Wja2JGilXFVzM2zZga3Ba) |
| Individual ranking | Tadej Pogačar, 11,680 points, fifth consecutive year, 20 wins including a fourth Tour de France and the world road title[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) |
| Team ranking | UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 40,637.65 points and 95 wins, ahead of Team Visma \| Lease a Bike (22,876.74) and Lidl-Trek (21,267.43)[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) |
| Nations ranking | Belgium, 17,986.29 points, ahead of Denmark (17,191.16) and Slovenia (14,953)[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) |
| Grand Tours | Three different Grand Tour winners, including Pogačar (Tour) and Jonas Vingegaard (Vuelta)[4](https://www.bikeradar.com/features/racing/2025-mens-worldtour-in-numbers) • [2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) |
| Licence outcomes | Cofidis and Arkéa-B&B Hotels relegated; Lotto and Israel-Premier Tech promoted; Uno-X Mobility took the 19th-place license freed by the Lotto-Intermarché-Wanty merger[5](https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/uci-rankings-team-update-uno-x-secures-world-tour-licence-cofidis-is-relegated) |
## Teams
The UCI registered 18 UCI WorldTeams and 17 UCI ProTeams for the 2025 season, alongside 15 UCI Women's WorldTeams and 7 UCI Women's ProTeams, 57 professional teams in total.[3](https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/registration-of-uci-professional-teams-for-the-2025-season/4Wja2JGilXFVzM2zZga3Ba) Thirteen men's teams already held a UCI WorldTour license for 2025: Alpecin-Deceuninck, Bahrain Victorious, Cofidis, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, EF Education-EasyPost, Groupama-FDJ, Ineos Grenadiers, Lidl-Trek, Movistar, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Team Jayco AlUla, Team Visma | Lease a Bike, and UAE Team Emirates.[3](https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/registration-of-uci-professional-teams-for-the-2025-season/4Wja2JGilXFVzM2zZga3Ba)
As the top two UCI ProTeams of the 2024 ranking, two teams were entitled to invitations to all UCI WorldTour events in 2025.[3](https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/registration-of-uci-professional-teams-for-the-2025-season/4Wja2JGilXFVzM2zZga3Ba)
## Calendar
The men's series ran 36 events; the Women's WorldTour remained at 30, with both calendars opening at the Tour Down Under and closing at the Tour of Guangxi.[1](https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-rolls-out-2025-road-calendar-with-copenhagen-sprint-added-to-mens-and-womens-worldtour/) The Grand Tours were scheduled as the [Tour de France](https://www.edgepedia.org/tour-de-france) 5–27 July and the [Vuelta a España](https://www.edgepedia.org/vuelta-a-espana) 23 August–14 September.[6](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/road-cycling-uci-world-tour-2025-key-dates-and-complete-calendar-schedule)
**New and lost races.** A Copenhagen Sprint was added to both calendars, the first edition of the event: 21 June 2025 for women, over 160 km from Roskilde to Copenhagen with three 10 km local circuits, and 22 June for men, over 230 km with five local circuits.[1](https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-rolls-out-2025-road-calendar-with-copenhagen-sprint-added-to-mens-and-womens-worldtour/) The women's calendar lost the RideLondon Classique, canceled after the UCI moved its date from late May to early June because of a conflict with the Vuelta a Burgos Femeninas, and the Ronde van Drenthe and Drentse 8 van Westerveld ended after 65 years, citing loss of police escorts, regulatory restrictions, and rising costs.[1](https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-rolls-out-2025-road-calendar-with-copenhagen-sprint-added-to-mens-and-womens-worldtour/) In a move toward unifying the calendars, 21 races on the 2025 program had both men's and women's categories, including the three Grand Tours; Milano-Sanremo held its first women's edition.[6](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/road-cycling-uci-world-tour-2025-key-dates-and-complete-calendar-schedule)
## Points system and rankings
Under the points structure in force since 2023, WorldTour race victories were worth 1,300 points for the Tour de France, 1,100 for the [Giro d'Italia](https://www.edgepedia.org/giro-ditalia) and Vuelta a España, 800 for any Monument (The five most prestigious one-day races in cycling), down to 300 for lesser races, scaled by historical importance.[7](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/i-spent-three-years-tracking-cyclings-team-rankings-for-worldtour-promotion-relegation-and-the-data-is-fascinating/) Points run 15-deep for [Grand Tour](https://www.edgepedia.org/grand-tour) stages and 60-deep for general classification or one-day races; a Tour de France stage is worth 210 points, with Grand Tour stage points going down to 15th place each day and to 10th for other stage races.[7](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/i-spent-three-years-tracking-cyclings-team-rankings-for-worldtour-promotion-relegation-and-the-data-is-fascinating/) • [8](https://inrng.com/2025/01/uci-points-rankings-2025/) Team rankings count each team's top 20 riders rather than the top 10, a change that benefits deeper rosters.[7](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/i-spent-three-years-tracking-cyclings-team-rankings-for-worldtour-promotion-relegation-and-the-data-is-fascinating/)
**Reweighting.** One-day races accounted for almost half of available points in the 2020–2022 cycle but about a third in 2023–2025, with Grand Tours taking a much larger share.[7](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/i-spent-three-years-tracking-cyclings-team-rankings-for-worldtour-promotion-relegation-and-the-data-is-fascinating/) Outside the WorldTour, winning a stage race overall or a one-day race brings the same points haul, which makes one-day races important for teams fighting relegation; the Challenge Mallorca opener awards 125 points to each daily winner.[8](https://inrng.com/2025/01/uci-points-rankings-2025/) The women's WorldTour scale awarded 400 points for a final-classification win, 320 for second, 260 for third, down to 8 points for positions 31–40, with stage winners receiving 50 points down to 6 for tenth; in team time trials, points go to the team and are divided equally between riders finishing the event or stage.[9](https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6GSzTd683WWyl46h5azM9z/ac3485743933cb16809f3eb95e299930/2-ROA-20250101-E_amendments_on_01.01.2025_-_updated_23.12.24_EN_WWT_Regulation_Changes.pdf)
## Season summary
**Pogačar's season** set the terms of the year. He amassed 20 wins, including renewed conquests of the rainbow jersey at the UCI World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, and a fourth Tour de France, and accumulated 11,680 ranking points, 25 more than in 2024, despite completing only 50 race days.[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) • [4](https://www.bikeradar.com/features/racing/2025-mens-worldtour-in-numbers) In one-day racing he took 12 top-three results in 13 starts, including eight victories, and became the first rider to step on the podium of all five Monuments in a single season, winning [Strade Bianche](https://www.edgepedia.org/strade-bianche), the Ronde van Vlaanderen, La Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and a fifth consecutive Il Lombardia; he led the one-day ranking with 6,725 points.[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) He also won the UAE Tour for a third time and the Critérium du Dauphiné.[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3)
**Grand Tours and Monuments.** Jonas Vingegaard won the Vuelta a España, his third Grand Tour, and also took the Volta ao Algarve; he topped the stage-race ranking with 5,944.14 points ahead of Pogačar (4,955) and João Almeida (4,326.07).[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) [Mathieu van der Poel](https://www.edgepedia.org/mathieu-van-der-poel) won Milano-Sanremo for a second time and Paris-Roubaix for a third consecutive year, finishing fourth in the one-day ranking.[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) The season produced three different Grand Tour winners and the emergence of a new wave of general classification contenders led by Oscar Onley, Tom Pidcock, and Florian Lipowitz; Isaac Del Toro, 21, won 11 one-day races and finished third in the individual ranking, while [Remco Evenepoel](https://www.edgepedia.org/remco-evenepoel) dropped to sixth after an injury-marked year despite winning national, continental, and world time trial titles. [Geraint Thomas](https://www.edgepedia.org/geraint-thomas) retired.[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) • [4](https://www.bikeradar.com/features/racing/2025-mens-worldtour-in-numbers)
## By the numbers
UAE Team Emirates-XRG claimed a historic 95 victories in the 2025 road season and reached 40,637.65 points, against 37,407 the previous year, leading the team ranking for a third straight year.[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) Belgium's 17,986.29 points won the nations ranking for a fifth consecutive year.[2](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3) In the 2023–2025 three-year team ranking, the totals on which licenses were assigned, the two available tallies differ: Cycling Up To Date records UAE Team Emirates-XRG with 109,173 points ahead of Team Visma | Lease a Bike (72,939) and Lidl-Trek (55,311),[5](https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/uci-rankings-team-update-uno-x-secures-world-tour-licence-cofidis-is-relegated) while ProCyclingStats lists UAE on 80,069 ahead of Visma (55,912), Lidl-Trek (41,915), and Soudal Quick-Step (41,682).[10](https://www.procyclingstats.com/rankings/me/ranking-2023-2025)
## Promotion, relegation and how the tiers compare
The 2025 season was the last of the current licensing cycle; at its end, all UCI WorldTour and Women's WorldTour licenses were reallocated for 2026–2028 on the three-year rolling ranking, computed from the consolidated points of each team's 20 best riders per year, with 18 WorldTour licenses to distribute.[3](https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/registration-of-uci-professional-teams-for-the-2025-season/4Wja2JGilXFVzM2zZga3Ba) • [10](https://www.procyclingstats.com/rankings/me/ranking-2023-2025)
**Outcomes.** Cofidis and Arkéa-B&B Hotels fell outside the top 18 and lost WorldTour status for 2026–2028.[5](https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/uci-rankings-team-update-uno-x-secures-world-tour-licence-cofidis-is-relegated) The relegation battle came down to a few hundred points over three years, with Cofidis on the losing side; Arkéa and Cofidis had the highest percentage of Class 1 races in their totals, and Uno-X Mobility scored most of its points in the ProSeries.[7](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/i-spent-three-years-tracking-cyclings-team-rankings-for-worldtour-promotion-relegation-and-the-data-is-fascinating/) Uno-X Mobility finished 19th, and its 2025 performance (10,816 points against Cofidis's 7,599) proved decisive: because the merger of Lotto and Intermarché-Wanty, which finished 12th and 18th, freed one license, Uno-X received a WorldTour license.[5](https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/uci-rankings-team-update-uno-x-secures-world-tour-licence-cofidis-is-relegated) Lotto and Israel-Premier Tech were promoted, Israel-Premier Tech finishing 13th over three seasons, while Lotto scored only 6,547 points in 2025; Israel-Premier Tech skipped several late-2025 races including Il Lombardia and announced it would drop the name Israel for 2026.[5](https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/uci-rankings-team-update-uno-x-secures-world-tour-licence-cofidis-is-relegated) XDS Astana's 16,712 points in 2025 lifted it from 21st to 15th in the three-year ranking and out of the relegation zone.[7](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/i-spent-three-years-tracking-cyclings-team-rankings-for-worldtour-promotion-relegation-and-the-data-is-fascinating/)
**Tiers.** The WorldTour differs from the UCI ProSeries in points value, invitations, and relegation exposure: WorldTour teams hold licenses decided by the three-year ranking, while the top two ProTeams of the annual ranking earn invitations to all WorldTour events the following season.[3](https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/registration-of-uci-professional-teams-for-the-2025-season/4Wja2JGilXFVzM2zZga3Ba) For Grand Tour wild cards, only the 40 best-ranked teams on the UCI World ranking by teams of the 2024 season were entitled to receive an invitation from a Grand Tour organizer in 2025; from 2026 onwards, only the 30 best-ranked teams qualify.[11](https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6FEzFHeA2oKMBGb5sdIvQ7/53c10e62ef7ab10a527ca2a561895533/2-ROA-20250401-E.pdf)
## What changed for 2025
The season operated under rules settled between late 2023 and the start of 2025. The reweighted points scale, the 60-deep and 15-deep tables, and the 20-rider team rankings date from 2023, and the reweighting shifted one-day races from roughly half of available points to about a third.[7](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/i-spent-three-years-tracking-cyclings-team-rankings-for-worldtour-promotion-relegation-and-the-data-is-fascinating/) The wild-card entitlement narrowed from 40 to 30 teams from 2026.[11](https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6FEzFHeA2oKMBGb5sdIvQ7/53c10e62ef7ab10a527ca2a561895533/2-ROA-20250401-E.pdf) On radio communication, the regulations prohibit radio links or other remote communication by or with riders during events, except in UCI WorldTour, UCI ProSeries, and Class 1 events for Men Elite and Women Elite, and in time trial events.[11](https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6FEzFHeA2oKMBGb5sdIvQ7/53c10e62ef7ab10a527ca2a561895533/2-ROA-20250401-E.pdf) The calendar continued its unification with the women's series, with 21 shared events and the first women's Milano-Sanremo.[6](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/road-cycling-uci-world-tour-2025-key-dates-and-complete-calendar-schedule)
## References
1. [UCI rolls out 2025 road calendar with Copenhagen Sprint added to men's and women's WorldTour, Cyclingnews](https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-rolls-out-2025-road-calendar-with-copenhagen-sprint-added-to-mens-and-womens-worldtour/)
2. [Men's road cycling: Pogačar headlines a star-studded UCI World Ranking, UCI](https://www.uci.org/article/mens-road-cycling-pogacar-headlines-a-star-studded-uci-world-ranking/6ZFJXgMqo20eQmUEYXSOK3)
3. [Registration of UCI professional teams for the 2025 season, UCI](https://www.uci.org/pressrelease/registration-of-uci-professional-teams-for-the-2025-season/4Wja2JGilXFVzM2zZga3Ba)
4. [42.9kph and 365 injuries: the men's 2025 WorldTour season in numbers, BikeRadar](https://www.bikeradar.com/features/racing/2025-mens-worldtour-in-numbers)
5. [UCI Rankings Team Update: UNO-X secures World Tour licence; Cofidis is relegated, Cycling Up To Date](https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/uci-rankings-team-update-uno-x-secures-world-tour-licence-cofidis-is-relegated)
6. [Road cycling: UCI World Tour 2025 – Key dates and complete calendar schedule, Olympics.com](https://www.olympics.com/en/news/road-cycling-uci-world-tour-2025-key-dates-and-complete-calendar-schedule)
7. [I spent three years tracking cycling's team rankings for WorldTour promotion/relegation, Cyclingnews](https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/i-spent-three-years-tracking-cyclings-team-rankings-for-worldtour-promotion-relegation-and-the-data-is-fascinating/)
8. [UCI Points And Rankings Tables, The Inner Ring](https://inrng.com/2025/01/uci-points-rankings-2025/)
9. [UCI Regulations amendments on 01.01.2025 – Women's WorldTour Regulation Changes](https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6GSzTd683WWyl46h5azM9z/ac3485743933cb16809f3eb95e299930/2-ROA-20250101-E_amendments_on_01.01.2025_-_updated_23.12.24_EN_WWT_Regulation_Changes.pdf)
10. [UCI World Ranking 2023-2025 (team ranking for licence assignment), ProCyclingStats](https://www.procyclingstats.com/rankings/me/ranking-2023-2025)
11. [UCI Regulations Part 2 – Road Races](https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6FEzFHeA2oKMBGb5sdIvQ7/53c10e62ef7ab10a527ca2a561895533/2-ROA-20250401-E.pdf)
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