The 2025-2026 UCI Cyclocross World Cup calendar will replicate a 12-race sequence for a second season, with a return to Koksijde and a second strive at a brand new spherical in Sardinia after the Italian race was cancelled because of excessive climate final December.
Together with Flanders Classics, the UCI confirmed that races in Bensaçon and Dublin won’t return, and the cease in Hulst was vacated for the Dutch metropolis to host the Cyclocross World Championships, January 30-February 1, 2026.
The calendar will start on the final two weekends of November at Tabor, Czechia, a 16-time World Cup host which final noticed the sequence in 2022, and Flamanville, France, which has hosted a World Cup twice earlier than.
A return to the coastal city of Cabras, Italy is scheduled for December 7 marks the third spherical. Additionally slotted in the identical spot final yr, a storm with heavy rainfall and highly effective winds of greater than 90 kph induced the UCI and race organisers to cancel these races simply hours earlier than the elite girls had been to compete.
Seven of the World Cup races can be held in Belgium, together with Namur on December 14, resulting in a weekend doubleheader on December 20-12 in Antwerp and Koksijde, the latter difficult riders with the massive sand dunes which have seen a three-year absence. A trio of conventional Belgian occasions stretch by means of ‘kerstperiode’ and the beginning of the brand new yr – Gavere, Dendermonde and Zonhoven.
Benidorm, Spain, repeats for a mid-January contest, with the season concluding with a Maasmechelan and Hoogerheide remaining weekend earlier than the World Championships, set for Hulst.
Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) gained his first general World Cup title for elite males, whereas Lucinda Brand (Baloise-Glowi) earned the third elite girls’s general title in her profession.
For the 2024-2025 cyclocross season, the UCI instituted a brand new ‘protected standing’ for a restricted variety of occasions to make sure high riders would deal with World Cups over sequence, which this previous yr included Superprestige, X2O Trophee, Precise Cross and Coupe de France. Rounds in Dublin, Sardinia, Besançon and Benidorm obtained this standing final season.
At this early date, the UCI administration committee had not decided picks for the upcoming season, which an amended rule final March said “won’t concern greater than half of the rounds” of the World Cup calendar.
Cyclocross World Cup 2025-2026 schedule
- Spherical 1 – Sunday, November 23, Tabor, Czechia
- Spherical 2 – Sunday, November 30, Flamanville, France
- Spherical 3 – Sunday, December 7, Cabras, Italy
- Spherical 4 – Sunday, December 14, Namur, Belgium
- Spherical 5 – Saturday, December 20, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Spherical 6 – Sunday, December 21, Koksijde, Belgium
- Spherical 7 – Friday, December 26, Gavere, Belgium
- Spherical 8 – Sunday, December 28, Dendermonde, Belgium
- Spherical 9 – Sunday, January 4, Zonhoven, Belgium
- Spherical 10 – Sunday, January 18, Benidorm, Spain
- Spherical 11 – Saturday, January 24, Maasmechelen, Belgium
- Spherical 12 – Sunday, January 25, Hoogerheide, Netherlands
