{"id":221666,"date":"2025-10-24T02:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221666\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T02:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:30:14","slug":"uci-rankings-team-update-uno-x-secures-world-tour-licence-cofidis-is-relegated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221666\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI Rankings Team Update | UNO-X secures World Tour licence; Cofidis is relegated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ark\u00e9a &#8211; B&amp;B Hotels, on the other hand, never really had a good season points-wise. Despite granted access to the Grand Tours and other major races, it was never really able to capitalize on that, sinking on the classification and finishing more than 3.000 points off the 18th place.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the team has been economically struggling in the recent times. Losing the WT license <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/official-arkea-bb-hotels-to-end-at-the-end-of-2025-french-team-unable-to-secure-its-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">put an end to the team<\/a>, as it was not able to attract new sponsors for the upcoming season. It will be one less team in 2026, a sad but recurring situation in cycling.<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/uno-x-mobility\" title=\"Uno-X Mobility\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uno-X Mobility<\/a> finished 19th, just ahead of the aforementioned Cofidis and Ark\u00e9a- B&amp;B Hotels. While this should imply a pro team licence once again, the final outcome will be their first experience at the World Tour thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/lotto\" title=\"Lotto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lotto<\/a> and Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty merger.These two Belgian teams have finished 12th and 18th respectively, but they officially announced that both structures will <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/official-lotto-and-intermarche-wanty-make-bid-to-merge-and-form-new-world-tour-team-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">merge ahead of the 2026 season<\/a>, which means they will just take one WT licence. The remaining will be awarded to the team finishing in 19th, which is Uno &#8211; X. A historic and well-deserved feat for the Norewgian squad, whose 2025 performance (10.816 points compared to 7.599 scored by Cofidis) was decisive to secure the right to ride all the best races.<\/p>\n<p>Two WT teams losing the licence implies that there are two pro teams being promoted. It is the case of Lotto, despite 2025 being a season to forget for the team (only 6.547 points, and they even gave up the Giro d&#8217;Italia), and also Israel-Premier Tech, which had three solid seasons and comfortably finished in 13th place.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli team had to skip several races at the end of this season, including Il Lombardia, and they also announced they will drop the name of Israel in an attempt to avoid hostilities towards the team, although their official name for 2026 has yet to be revealed. Anyways, they have a guaranteed spot in the World Tour for the next 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the leaderboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/uae-team-emirates-xrg\" title=\"UAE Team Emirates - XRG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG<\/a> finished with 109.173 points, well ahead the second team,\u00a0Team Visma | Lease a Bike, which ended with 72.939 units. Lidl &#8211; Trek closes the podium with 55.311 points, beating other super teams such as Soudal Quick-Step, INEOS Grenadiers and Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Tudor Pro Cycling Team deserves a special mention. The team has grown exponentially in the 2023-2025 period, going from just 2.766 points in 2023 to 10.026 in 2025. They have invested a big amount of money and signed some top riders such as Marc Hirschi, Julian Alaphilippe or Michael Storer, who all have performed great. If they continue like this, they will most likely become a new World Tour member in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Final UCI Teams Update; Date: 21\/10\/2025<\/p>\n<p>*This ranking represents the UCI points scored in 2025 among the team&#8217;s top 20 riders; and how the 2023-2025 rankings stand.<\/p>\n<p>PositionTeamTotal points202520242023Division1\u00a0UAE Team Emirates-XRG109.17340.80337.40830.963WT2\u00a0Team Visma | Lease a Bike72.93922.85720.42829.654WT3\u00a0Lidl-Trek55.31121.26717.98916.054WT4\u00a0Soudal Quick-Step51.79714.92018.15418.723WT5\u00a0INEOS Grenadiers45.40912.10015.54817.761WT6\u00a0Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe44.36014.14016.89413.325WT7\u00a0Alpecin-Deceuninck41.27611.73715.02014.519WT8\u00a0Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale37.65412.62715.9319.096WT9\u00a0Bahrain Victorious36.24710.9129.54715.788WT10\u00a0Groupama-FDJ35.8708.67812.35714.835WT11\u00a0EF Education-EasyPost34.09210.78911.48511.819WT12\u00a0Lotto33.1496.54712.48914.113PT13\u00a0Israel-Premier Tech31.5819.57611.72310.281PT14\u00a0Movistar Team31.0169.14810.87910.990WT15\u00a0XDS Astana Team30.32316.7046.5757.044WT16\u00a0Team Jayco-AlUla30.1358.77510.62210.738WT17\u00a0Team Picnic PostNL27.4498.7009.6479.102WT18\u00a0Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty26.7176.3099.91510.492WT19\u00a0Uno-X Mobility26.32410.8168.9396.569PT20\u00a0Cofidis25.9267.5997.89010.437WT21\u00a0ARKEA-B&amp;B HOTELS23.1747.2358.7107.229WT22\u00a0Tudor Pro Cycling Team18.54610.0265.7532.766PT23\u00a0Team TotalEnergies17.6747.0054.9045.765PT24\u00a0Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team15.1758.1733.6043.398PT25\u00a0Caja Rural-Seguros RGA9.9623.9223.9122.128PT26\u00a0VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizan\u00e89.2612.5503.1653.546PT27\u00a0Team Polti VisitMalta8.1283.0852.6262.417PT28\u00a0Equipo Kern Pharma8.0142.9673.3461.700PT29\u00a0Burgos Burpellet BH7.6693.1572.9161.596PT30\u00a0Unibet Tietema Rockets5.4213.2251.381815PT31\u00a0Solution Tech-Vini Fantini5.1442.3101.2171.617PT32\u00a0Euskaltel-Euskadi4.2271.3871.3341.506PT33\u00a0Wagner Bazin WB3.1874791.3571.351PT34\u00a0Team Flanders-Baloise2.5307926721.066PT35\u00a0Team Novo Nordisk1.108468254386PT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Ark\u00e9a &#8211; B&amp;B Hotels, on the other hand, never really had a good season points-wise. 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