Whereas the lads’s battle to keep away from relegation from or acquire promotion to the WorldTour in 2026 wages on, the composition of the Ladies’s WorldTour within the coming three years is solidifying.
The ladies’s groups have to satisfy an analogous sporting standards to the lads’s, besides the ladies’s groups should make the highest 15 within the 2024-2025 UCI Group Rankings fairly than the highest 18, as their most variety of WorldTour groups is 15.
From 2026 onward, the ladies’s peloton will likely 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 crew 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 crew 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 crew are the one present WorldTour crew to overlook out on the highest 15. The crew confirmed to Cyclingnews that they won’t proceed within the WorldTour, however intend to use to be a ProTeam. The crew 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 crew after the title sponsor introduced they’ll finish sponsorship of the crew on the finish of this season. The crew 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 crew finish, the Volkerwessels crew could be the Fifteenth-ranked crew and, in the event that they maintain this place, they might be eligible to affix the WorldTour.
