Cycling transfers – All the latest news and announcements for the 2026 season

With the switch window formally opening on August 1, we’re now deep into biking’s switch season, with many of the high-profile offers and strikes already achieved.

For riders who have not but made their plans for 2026, the tip of the street season will mark the start of a little bit of a scramble to signal, as groups’ begin to shut their books with rosters stuffed for subsequent 12 months.

There could also be nonetheless a couple of massive bulletins to return, however the switch interval up to now has been outlined by some dramatic mid-contract strikes, together with Remco Evenepoel’s swap from Soudal-QuickStep to Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Juan Ayuso’s exit from UAE Group Emirates-XRG to Lidl-Trek, and Cian Uijtdebroeks’ out-of-the-blue departure from Visma-Lease a Bike to Movistar.

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Elsewhere, the budget-boosted Decathlon-CMA CGM workforce have secured star sprinter Olav Kooij, and are constructing a powerful workforce round him, together with snapping up Cees Bol and Daan Hoole.

On the ladies’s facet, final 12 months’s main merry-go-round of strikes implies that we’re seeing fewer actually big-name transfers this autumn, however some necessary modifications are nonetheless taking place. Charlotte Kool made a mid-season contract to Fenix-Deceuninck, while Lidl-Trek have continued their pattern of signing spectacular up-and-coming riders. SD Worx-Protime have been conspicuously quiet up to now, and we’re nonetheless ready for them to announce any new riders for 2026.

Regardless of the shortage of big-name strikes, there are loads of riders in the marketplace nonetheless, owing to the closure of Ceratizit, the possible merger of Lotto and Intermarché-Wanty and anticipated folding of Arkéa-B&B Lodges. Moreover, the WorldTour relegation and promotion is but to be confirmed and the ladies’s market might rumble on even later than the lads’s this 12 months.

There are nonetheless loads of bulletins to return, and loads of massive rumours, too, for instance surrounding Derek Gee’s supposed departure from Israel-Premier Tech, although the workforce nonetheless say he has a contract.

There’s additionally the carousel of stagiaires – younger, non-professional riders who’re getting trial runs with WorldTour groups in August and the autumn. And outdoors of the riders shifting, workers transfers are necessary too, with sports activities director Zak Dempster leaving Ineos for Purple Bull probably the most fascinating personnel modifications up to now. However there are loads extra.

Cyclingnews is monitoring all actions throughout the switch season – the whole lot from contract renewals to extensions to retirements – with our devoted switch index throughout the lads’s and girls’s WorldTeams and ProTeams.

We’ll replace this web page by way of the remainder of the 12 months with each confirmed signing for 2026, constructing a team-by-team record of ins and outs, whereas additionally monitoring the newest switch information from the skilled biking peloton.

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Rumours and hypothesis

It’s common for rumours and hypothesis to flow into by way of the peloton right now of 12 months, even after the August 1 announcement window opens.

Many of those become fully true – Evenepoel’s transfer, Ayuso’s departure and Olav Kooij’s arrival at Decathlon have been all reported by numerous retailers earlier than they have been formally confirmed.

By October, the hearsay mill is slowing down, however there are nonetheless some query marks, reminiscent of whether or not Biniam Girmay will make a transfer to Israel-Premier Tech for 2026.

There are additionally workforce issues which can be but to be resolved, reminiscent of Arkéa-B&B Lodges’ survival, and the attainable merger between Intermarché-Wanty and Lotto.

On the ladies’s facet, high workforce SD Worx-Protime are nonetheless but to make any signings for 2026, and hypothesis is mounting over who they could have signed, or why they have not made many strikes.

Riders nonetheless with no contract

Now in October, many of the offers for 2026 have already been introduced, and if not then they’ve no less than been signed behind the scenes, however there are nonetheless quite a few riders with out an formally confirmed contract for subsequent season.

Riders like Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) and Tim Wellens (UAE Group Emirates-XRG) have not formally introduced any extensions, however are possible to stick with their present groups. Different riders are very a lot nonetheless in the marketplace, like Sam Welsford (Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), who reportedly had a cope with Ineos fall by way of, and Clément Venturini (Arkéa-B&B Lodges) who’s with no workforce as his squad is poised to fold, regardless of profitable the Coupe de France collection this 12 months.

Different riders appear to nonetheless be deciding their future and whether or not they’ll proceed or retire, like Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers) and Victor Lafay (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale).

On the ladies’s facet, we nonetheless do not know the locations or contract conditions of riders like Alison Jackson (EF Training-EasyPost), Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto) and Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco) amongst a number of others.

A few of these could also be signed however not but introduced, however any rider who really would not have something signed for 2026 but will probably be beginning to fear now as workforce rosters begin to refill.

With the street racing season wrapping up in mid-October, and groups then beginning pre-season coaching camps as quickly as November, count on most offers to be achieved and dusted fairly quickly. Nevertheless, strikes can go into December and even the New 12 months: signing riders in January and February is by no means unprecedented.

Confirmed transfers – workforce by workforce

That is our index to all transfers which have been formally confirmed by groups.

Males’s WorldTour

Alpecin-Deceuninck

Arkéa-B&B Lodges (ends)

Bahrain Victorious

Cofidis

Decathlon CMA CGM

EF Training-EasyPost

Groupama-FDJ

Ineos Grenadiers

Intermarché-Wanty

Jayco-AlUla

Lidl-Trek

Movistar

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Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

Soudal-QuickStep

UAE Group Emirates-XRG

Visma-Lease a Bike

XDS Astana Group

Girls’s WorldTour

AG Insurance coverage-Soudal

Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto

Ceratizit Professional Biking

FDJ-Suez

Fenix-Deceuninck

Human Powered Well being

Lidl-Trek

Liv-AlUla-Jayco

Movistar

Roland

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SD Worx-Protime

UAE Group ADQ

Uno-X Mobility

Visma-Lease a Bike

Males’s ProTeams

Burgos Burpellet BH

Caja Rural-Seguros RGA

Equipo Kern Pharma

Euskaltel-Euskadi

Flanders-Baloise

Israel-Premier Tech

Lotto

Q36.5 Professional Biking

Novo Nordisk

Polti-VisitMalta

Options Tech – Vini Fantini

TotalEnergies

Tudor Professional Biking

Unibet Tietema Rockets

Uno-X Mobility

VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè

Wagner Bazin WB

Girls’s Professional Groups

Arkea-B&B Lodges Girls

Cofidis

EF Training-Oatly

Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi

St Michel-Desire Residence-Auber93 WE

VolkerWessels Biking Group

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