Further back, Cofidis delivers one of the week’s biggest jumps among the top 20. The French team climbs from 4,848 to 5,174 points (mainly thanks to Milan Fretin’s back-to-back podium results on home roads), moving up two spots to 14th.
In the opposite direction, Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team slips two places despite adding a few points, while NSN Cycling Team keeps growing and nears the 5,200-point mark.
Bigger changes are expected at the end of this week thanks to WorldTour stage race Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and also the Copenhagen Sprint on Sunday.
However even greater movements are to come right ahead of the Tour de France, mainly thanks to national championships where the more-international lineups can take spotlight. In addition, Tour de Suisse, Tour of Slovenia and Baloise Belgium Tour will bring a hefty amount of points to the table.
The fight to enter the top 18
With passage of weeks, the situation around relegation zone has not become any clearer as teams from 13th to 21st are less than 900 points apart. And the 12th Uno-X Mobility need to maintain a steady pace as well only 300 points further ahead of Movistar Team in 13th.
In order to secure a WorldTour license in 2029, teams need to finish among the best 18 teams in UCI’s three-year cycle ranking, and there seems to be at the very least 21 teams interested to be part of this group. At the moment, the short straw would be bestowed upon Tudor Pro Cycling, EF Education-EasyPost, and Unibet Rose Rockets.
The immediate target for these teams is to catch up to Groupama – FDJ United, which currently sets the top-18 cut at 4,842 points. The gap is especially narrow for Tudor, just 142 points away. EF Education is under 400 points back and Unibet Rose Rockets under 500, margins that can be flipped with one or two standout rides.
Meanwhile, Team Picnic PostNL remains buried deep down the ranking in 28th position, having only just surpassed Euskaltel-Euskadi and the continental lineup Roojai Insurance Winspace. But they still miss 3,400 points to catch Groupama – FDJ United.
No one can match UAE at the top of the UCI WorldTour Ranking
UCI WorldTour Teams Ranking Position Team Class Points 1 UAE Team Emirates – XRG WT 15,084 2 Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe WT 13,042 3 Team Visma | Lease a Bike WT 12,738 4 Decathlon CMA CGM Team WT 10,775 5 XDS Astana Team WT 8,325 6 Bahrain – Victorious WT 8,237 7 Lidl – Trek WT 7,594 8 Netcompany INEOS WT 7,222 9 Soudal Quick-Step WT 6,732 10 Team Jayco AlUla WT 6,417 11 Alpecin – Premier Tech WT 6,301 12 Uno-X Mobility WT 5,563 13 Movistar Team WT 5,251 14 Cofidis PRT 5,174 15 NSN Cycling Team WT 5,116 16 Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team PRT 4,984 17 Lotto Intermarché WT 4,977 18 Groupama – FDJ United WT 4,842 19 Tudor Pro Cycling Team PRT 4,700 20 EF Education – EasyPost WT 4,443 21 Unibet Rose Rockets PRT 4,364 22 TotalEnergies PRT 3,007 23 Caja Rural – Seguros RGA PRT 2,505 24 Burgos Burpellet BH PRT 2,468 25 Team Polti VisitMalta PRT 2,309 26 Solution Tech NIPPO Rali PRT 2,131 27 Equipo Kern Pharma PRT 1,908 28 Team Picnic PostNL WT 1,474 29 Euskaltel – Euskadi PRT 1,387 30 Bardiani CSF 7 Saber PRT 1,210