The UCI has revealed the listing {of professional} groups who’ve asked to sign in for the 2024 season, with the similar 18 2023 males’s WorldTour groups making use of for licences for 2024, 16 ladies’s groups making use of for the 15 to be had puts as Ladies’s WorldTour groups, and 17 males’s groups making use of for Professional Workforce standing.
The UCI announcement confirms that Jumbo-Visma and Soudal-QuickStep intend to proceed as separate entities after negotiations to shape a mega group led to early October.
Jumbo-Visma are indexed as Blanco Professional Biking Workforce within the UCI listing of groups. That’s the identify of the group’s control corporate, with Visma and Rent a Motorbike anticipated to be named as identify sponsors.
The entire different groups glance set to proceed their 2023 WorldTour standing, with Arkea including B&B Lodges as a 2d sponsor, whilst Intermarché-Wanty have misplaced Circus as a identify sponsor.
Plenty of group adjustments are anticipated for the Ladies’s WorldTour in 2024. EF Schooling-TIBCO SVB are folding and Jayco AlUla and Liv-TeqFind have merged into one group beneath the previous’s identify. That has created slots for brand spanking new groups.
AG Insurance coverage-Soudal Fast-Step, Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking and Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi are the 3 groups seeking to transfer up from the Continental stage.
Scores-wise, Ceratizit-WNT carried out best possible of the 3 in 2023, completing eleventh general within the group score, with AG Insurance coverage in thirteenth and the Basque group down in twenty fifth.
3 of this yr’s groups have been indexed at the press free up with other names with Jumbo-Visma ladies now beneath Blanco Professional Biking Ladies, Israel-Premier Tech Roland simply as Roland and Uno-X as Uno-X Mobility.
Human Powered Well being and Bolton Equities Black Spoke absent from 2024 males’s ProTeam listing
There have been 18 males’s ProTeams in 2023 however the US-registered Human Powered Well being group and New Zealand’s Bolton Equities Black Spoke group are absent from the 2024 listing.
Each groups have struggled to seek out new sponsors. TDT-Unibet had been added to the listing as they paintings to step up from Continental to ProTeam stage.
Different groups might nonetheless observe for ProTeam standing for 2024 prior to the general closing date however face a race towards time and further prices. Continental groups are registered with nationwide federations and apply a simplified procedure.
The UCI listing of groups is essential for riders beneath contract with the groups no longer indexed. Beneath the UCI’s laws, they may be able to now terminate their contracts in advance and signal with different groups. We will be expecting quite a lot of WorldTour and ProTeams to conclude offers with riders and announce some last-minute signings as they entire their rosters.
The groups’ licence packages come with sponsorship data, budgets, financial institution promises, rider contracts and workforce construction. They’ll all now be studied intimately via the UCI Licence Fee and exterior auditor PwC to test they appreciate the wearing, administrative, moral, monetary and organisational standards and the UCI laws.
The UCI stated it is going to factor a press free up on 12 December, when the selections of the Licence Fee had been communicated to the UCI and the groups.
Because of the issues scored in 2023, Lotto-Dstny and Israel-PremierTech will obtain computerized invites to all of the WorldTour races, together with the Excursion de France, with Uno-X invited to the one-day WorldTour races.
The opposite ProTeams, together with TotalEnergies, Tudor Professional Biking and Q36.5 must pitch to race organisers for the general two or 3 Grand Excursion wild card puts and different race invites.