UCI Points system

[Netserk]

The real battle as I see it for next year is between Uno-X and Tudor for the auto-wild card for WT one day races.

Not just one-day races. Uno-X is likely to secure GT wildcards too for 2026.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The real battle as I see it for next year is between Uno-X and Tudor for the auto-wild card for WT one day races. I think Uno-X got the edge but Hirschi and Alaphilippe may make it close if they are on form all year.

If Uno-X lose that battle, they they are cooked. Probably no TDF invite from 2026 onwards and riders will leave.

This assumes that a) Arkéa survives into 2026 and b) neither them nor Chinastana find themselves in the battle with Uno-X and Tudor (or simply well below them).

 

[Libertine Seguros]

"Wildcards to all WT events"

That's not a f***ing wildcard.

Stop pretending and be honest with us, just go full mask off and tell us you want to play the "rich people only, no riff-raff allowed" card, UCI.

 

[Samamba]

"Wildcards to all WT events"

That's not a f***ing wildcard.

Stop pretending and be honest with us, just go full mask off and tell us you want to play the "rich people only, no riff-raff allowed" card, UCI.

We get it man, you don't like the system, you repeat it 50 times a year

 

[Pozzovivo]

Not just one-day races. Uno-X is likely to secure GT wildcards too for 2026.

In what way are they likely to get that? They need to beat who?

 

[Peyroteo94]

We get it man, you don't like the system, you repeat it 50 times a year

Your forgot two letters (Wo)

 

[Devil's Elbow]

In what way are they likely to get that? They need to beat who?

Assuming no changes to the provisional WT license winners, all but one of Arkéa (assuming they survive), Chinastana and the existing PCTs minus Lotto and Israel (of which only Tudor seems a major threat.

In other words, if next season were to be an exact repeat of this one, Uno-X and Arkéa would take first and second with Astana snagging the one-day race wildcards. The problem for all three teams is that Tudor weren't far off this year and should do much better next season.

 

[Potomac]

So after two complete years, 18,000 points is safe, so it isn't a too far fetched to predict that 27,000 points or so will be needed to stay up at the end of the 2025 season

#	Team	Class	Points
1	UAE Team Emirates	WT	68248
2	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	WT	50039
3	Soudal Quick-Step	WT	36862
4	Lidl - Trek	WT	33995
5	INEOS Grenadiers	WT	33353
6	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	WT	30212
7	Alpecin - Deceuninck	WT	29509
8	Groupama - FDJ	WT	27182
9	Lotto Dstny	PRT	26625
10	Bahrain - Victorious	WT	25213
11	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	WT	25135
12	EF Education - EasyPost	WT	23302
13	Movistar Team	WT	21858
14	Israel - Premier Tech	PRT	21666
15	Team Jayco AlUla	WT	21323
16	Intermarché - Wanty	WT	20290
17	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	WT	18721
18	Cofidis	WT	18233
19	Arkéa - B&B Hotels	WT	15859
20	Uno-X Mobility	PRT	15500
21	Astana Qazaqstan Team	WT	13563
22	TotalEnergies	PRT	10667
23	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	PRT	8527
24	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	PRT	6988
25	VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè	PRT	6530

 

[Potomac]

Using 27 000 as a goal, Astana would need to score 14 000 points in 2025.

I'm singling out Astana because there was speculation the new ownership might be very aggressive in the transfer season in hopes of staying up.

 

[Netserk]

Assuming no changes to the provisional WT license winners, all but one of Arkéa (assuming they survive), Chinastana and the existing PCTs minus Lotto and Israel (of which only Tudor seems a major threat.

In other words, if next season were to be an exact repeat of this one, Uno-X and Arkéa would take first and second with Astana snagging the one-day race wildcards. The problem for all three teams is that Tudor weren't far off this year and should do much better next season.

Yep.

This year's scores:

18	Uno-X Mobility	PRT	8938.7
19	Arkéa - B&B Hotels	WT	8735
21	Astana Qazaqstan Team	WT	6563.2
22	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	PRT	5753.3
23	TotalEnergies	PRT	4897

Uno-X, Astana and Tudor will likely all improve more than Arkéa and Total, so I think the top-2 spots are between the first three. Tudor and Astana have much better transfers for next year, but I still favour Uno-X as they can get their riders to perform (to be seen for Astana) and they know how to ride for points.

 

[Samamba]

Yep.

This year's scores:

18	Uno-X Mobility	PRT	8938.7
19	Arkéa - B&B Hotels	WT	8735
21	Astana Qazaqstan Team	WT	6563.2
22	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	PRT	5753.3
23	TotalEnergies	PRT	4897

Uno-X, Astana and Tudor will likely all improve more than Arkéa and Total, so I think the top-2 spots are between the first three. Tudor and Astana have much better transfers for next year, but I still favour Uno-X as they can get their riders to perform (to be seen for Astana) and they know how to ride for points.

UNO X having only 26 riders and no devo team will hinder them massively tho. They can't just spam races, they won't be able to ride as much as this year. I doubt they'll improve a lot.

 

[Samamba]

Did the math, based on this years results of Astana's riders they have the possibility to score over 11000 points, that would definitely give them a top 2 Pro Team spot. Of course there's riders that might underperform at Astana, given it is ... well Astana. But on the other hand they have some riders coming in that were working for others a lot past year or come out of a bad season so have the opportunity to do better than they did.

Obviously will never be enough to stay in the WT, they need all their top riders to at least equal their best season for that. For having a shot at WT they really needed to get a Groves (who denied their offer), Van Gils (same) or Ayuso.

 

[Leadbelly]

Going by this year's scoring, Euskaltel will have to do ~500 points better to have a chance at getting in the top-30 for next year. I'm not sure I see it happening unless they really target the low hanging fruit.

Conversely Polti in 29th (and others above them) have a cushion of over 1000 points back to the team in 31st place. That doesn't guarantee anything of course, but it should mean they'll be okay even if they have lost big riders. (Castrillo at Kern and Pellizzari at VF).

 

[aruipksni]

the all point system is not working very well. you have a 3 year league (why????) , without championship prize. all the point battle is between a few low tear teams squabbling for peanuts, while the rest of the teams collect the big prizes.

 

[Pozzovivo]

UNO X having only 26 riders and no devo team will hinder them massively tho. They can't just spam races, they won't be able to ride as much as this year. I doubt they'll improve a lot.

They make themselves very vulnerable to injuries for sure. If they stay healthy I think they can still race as much since many of the worst riders on Uno-X hardly races at all. Losing two of the three sons of the Uno-X CEO Kulset will not impact them at all for instance. I think with Kron coming in and THJ having a better season they can increase points by about 1500 reaching around 10.500 if all goes well.