UCI Points (relegation/promotion) '23-'25

[Milzy]

📊Japan Cup UCI Points
🇫🇷Cofidis +180
🇮🇹Solution Tech +8
Cofidis are now 221 points behind Uno-X. It is NOT mathematically over, but with the Norwegian team expected to score in @ChronoNations & @VenetoClassic. Solution Tech still require 200 points if they want a Giro invite.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Uno-X take the advantage in Chrono des Nations, Wærenskjolds 5th and Carl-Frederik Bévort's 8th easily outscoring Oliver Knight's 7th and the three point hauls of the other two Cofidis.

Uno-X: 26.054
Cofidis: 25.846

Gap in points: 208

With only the Veneto Classic to come in that's not mathematically impossible but a massive ask

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Sakarias Koller Løland wins the Veneto Classic for Uno-X, and rockets them into the WT. What a finish to the season - his first pro win as well!

 

[Milzy]

Cofidis may be down but will be invited to the TDF no doubt. Shame for Oliver Knight.

 

[Adam4868]

Cofidis may be down but will be invited to the TDF no doubt. Shame for Oliver Knight.

I thought Cofidis was able to race every WT event anyway...auto wildcards ?

 

[Milzy]

I thought Cofidis was able to race every WT event anyway...auto wildcards ?

Sure they’ll get a few wild card invites but will
still miss out on a lot of good events. They had my favourite bike & Campag set up too.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Sure they’ll get a few wild card invites but will
still miss out on a lot of good events. They had my favourite bike & Campag set up too.

They've got the third automatic invite spot (not wildcard, I think that was just a terminology confusion). They'll get to race all the WT races they want this season. Tudor and Q36.5 are the two others. Next season might be different.

 

[mjr]

World Tour Promotion and Relegation
https://inrng.com/2025/10/world-tou...campaign=world-tour-2026-promotion-relegation

It notes that there are admin checks going on, so this isn't certain yet. There's also some interesting implications lower down the league with both Solutions Tech-Vini Fantini and Euskatel-Euskadei missing a new 30th place division line for grand tour invites.

 

[mjr]

Credit to Inrng for admitting how wrong they were about Astana getting relegated in How the Predictions for 2025 Fared
https://inrng.com/2025/10/predictions-for-2025-review/

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Credit to Inrng for admitting how wrong they were about Astana getting relegated in How the Predictions for 2025 Fared
https://inrng.com/2025/10/predictions-for-2025-review/

To be fair, Astana were so far back and looking so disjointed other than the Cav Project 35 last year (which looked like it had taken far too many resources for UCI point gain - though undeniably an incredible and worthwhile feat) that pretty much everyone would have them pegged to go down. It's easy to say "go to 1.Pro and 1.1 races and farm points" but it's not exactly a secret method and everyone was trying to do it. UAE were arguably most successful, though they also farmed monuments....

 

[T4tomo]

Premier Tech have pulled their sponsorship of whatever IPT is now called. I doubt there will be many sponsors lining up to take its place so there may well be a final twist in the tail.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Premier Tech have pulled their sponsorship of whatever IPT is now called. I doubt there will be many sponsors lining up to take its place so there may well be a final twist in the tail.

On the UCI Points Promotion/Relegation thread there seems to be evidence that they'll be continuing, potentially with new sponsors

 

[T4tomo]

On the UCI Points Promotion/Relegation thread there seems to be evidence that they'll be continuing, potentially with new sponsors

Yes I saw that after I'd posted the above. I guess billy big pockets will keep funding it whilst searching for sponsors, but I just think the whole brand is now toxic, only a pro Israel brand would want to come in and that would attract same protests. Any other brand coming in is going to get associated with Adams which presumably isnt what they want. we'll see....

 

[Dogtrousers]

Yes I saw that after I'd posted the above. I guess billy big pockets will keep funding it whilst searching for sponsors, but I just think the whole brand is now toxic, only a pro Israel brand would want to come in and that would attract same protests. Any other brand coming in is going to get associated with Adams which presumably isnt what they want. we'll see....

I posted this link in the transfers & rumours thread. https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections...continue-racing-in-2026-despite-sponsor-exit/

I guess we won't have a terribly long time to wait to find out what's going to happen. I'd be amused if Cofidis got an utterly undeserved reprieve. I suspect it won't happen.

 

[T4tomo]

One option would be to sell the team to someone morally less repugnant. Having the UCI ranking must make it worth something