The Giro d’Italia was a boon for Picnic-PostNL and XDS Astana however a bust for Cofidis and Arkéa-B&B Lodges in the case of the end-of-season WorldTour relegation watch.
The Giro d’Italia was essentially the most profitable race of the season up to now, and overlooked three of the highest groups, Lotto, who declined their automatic invitation, and Uno-X Mobility and TotalEnergies, who weren’t granted wildcard invites.
Cofidis may have made up plenty of floor through the Giro d’Italia, and wanted to as a result of they began the race 33 factors outdoors of the highest 18 of the 2023-2025 UCI Staff Rankings.
Nevertheless, the French group had a dismal efficiency within the Italian Grand Tour. They scored the least of any group within the race with simply 15 factors for Sergio Samitier’s 52nd place within the closing total classification.
The group had been additionally denied on residence turf within the Boucles de la Mayenne, the place they solely managed 90 factors. In the meantime. XDS Astana received the race with Aaron Gate, additional compounding Cofidis’ woes.
Cofidis didn’t compete within the Tour of Norway, which they may remorse come October, because the Professional Sequence race offered an honest factors haul.
Cofidis are actually 183 factors outdoors of the highest 18 and might be underneath stress to attain factors on French soil through the Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de France to stay within the WorldTour in 2026.
In the meantime, Picnic-PostNL had an honest Giro d’Italia, with a win by Casper van Uden on stage 4, in addition to eleventh total by Max Poole. Romain Bardet helped the German group’s trigger by scoring 130 factors for second place on stage 17 and a handful extra for twenty sixth on GC, and different minor outcomes for the group introduced the whole to 512 factors.
They weren’t as sturdy as XDS Astana, nonetheless, and the Kazakh group jumped forward of them into seventeenth place within the three-year rankings with a 455-point benefit on Picnic-PostNl.
XDS Astana went 1-2 on stage 16 with Christian Scaroni and Lorenzo Fortunato, and the pair reversed positions within the closing mountains classification. These feats had been value 620 factors of the group’s whole of 795 for the Giro.
The underdog of the Giro d’Italia, EF Training-EasyPost, could not have achieved their aim of successful the general with Richard Carapaz, however the group had a superteam-level haul with 1,045 factors, the third-most behind Visma-Lease a Bike and UAE Staff Emirates-XRG.
That buoyed the group to tenth within the 2025 UCI Staff Rankings and moved them again up forward of Lotto into eleventh within the three-year rankings – a much more snug place than what they faced in the last relegation cycle.
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Factors scored since final rating
| Staff |
Giro factors |
Non-Giro factors |
Complete |
| Visma-Lease a Bike |
1871 |
320 |
2191 |
| UAE Staff Emirates XRG |
1930 |
168 |
2098 |
| EF Training-Easypost |
1045 |
78 |
1123 |
| XDS Astana Staff |
855 |
260 |
1115 |
| Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe |
815 |
48 |
863 |
| Bahrain Victorious |
832 |
0 |
832 |
| Israel-Premier Tech |
775 |
10 |
785 |
| Picnic PostNL |
517 |
145 |
662 |
| Ineos Grenadiers |
450 |
170 |
620 |
| Movistar |
520 |
5 |
525 |
| Decathlon AG2R la Mondiale |
440 |
0 |
440 |
| Tudor |
375 |
45 |
420 |
| Lidl-Trek |
365 |
45 |
410 |
| Alpecin-Deceuninck |
225 |
101 |
326 |
| Q36.5 |
225 |
86 |
311 |
| Arkea-B&B Lodges |
220 |
85 |
305 |
| Groupama-FDJ |
110 |
168 |
278 |
| Jayco Alula |
275 |
0 |
275 |
| Soudal Quickstep |
240 |
0 |
240 |
| Intermarché-Wanty |
95 |
116 |
211 |
| Totalenergies |
0 |
195 |
195 |
| Uno-X Mobility |
0 |
185 |
185 |
| Cofidis |
15 |
90 |
105 |
| Lotto |
0 |
35 |
35 |
2025 Staff Rankings – The battle for 2026 wildcards
Virtually as urgent because the WorldTour relegation battle is the battle between the ProTeams – in addition to groups who get relegated – for the 2 computerized invites to the 2026 Grand Excursions for the highest ProTeams of 2025.
Lotto and Israel-Premier Tech, who misplaced out within the 2023 relegation race, stand to rejoin the WorldTour in 2026 if their fortunes proceed on as they’ve over the previous two seasons.
That can go away two new WorldTour groups out of the working for 2026. In the mean time, Arkéa-B&B Lodges are the group who have to be involved essentially the most. Not solely are they lagging far behind in twenty first, however they’re dealing with funding points and needed to let go of a number of prime riders within the low season. This has put them in a good worse place to attain factors.
Much more dire is their place within the 2025 rankings, nonetheless. Arkéa are twenty second this 12 months and means behind Uno-X Mobility and Tudor Professional Biking. They’re additionally behind Cofidis and Picnic-PostNL, who’re additionally on the cusp of relegation.
Of the present ProTeams, Uno-X Mobility is over 2,000 factors behind of their aim of promotion to the WorldTour, however are main the way in which towards the automated WorldTour invites for 2026.
If Cofidis and Picnic-PostNL get relegated, the Norwegian group are in a main place as the highest ProTeam of 2025 up to now. Second on the listing is Tudor, who maintain a slim lead on Q36.5.
Lotto, ought to they fail to carry onto their prime 18 place, could be in a horrible spot as they’re in lifeless final on this 12 months’s rankings and a couple of,000 factors behind Tudor.
2023-2025 Staff Rankings
With the Dauphiné, Tour de Suisse and Tour de France arising, the standings are by removed from set in stone, however the weekly common of factors gained up to now this season – and over a wide range of occasions – provides a robust trace of how the following month will go.
XDS Astana are on a path to overhaul Intermarché-Wanty within the subsequent two months of racing, ought to they proceed on the identical trajectory.
Picnic-PostNL are locked in a good battle with Cofidis, whereas Uno-X Mobility and Arkéa-B&B Lodges will want a minor miracle to get into the highest 18.
The German outfit lose Romain Bardet, who’s retiring with out racing the Tour de France, and are lacking sprinter Fabio Jakobsen, out with iliac artery endofibrosis. However Bardet can have his final hurrah on the Dauphiné and race alongside the in-form Poole.
Oscar Onley will lead their group for the Tour, with stage hunters Julius van den Berg and Tobias Andresen within the combine.
Cofidis might be investing closely within the upcoming Dauphiné and Tour de France, with riders like Dylan Teuns, Emanuel Buchmann aiming on the former and Ion Izagirre, Benjamin Thomas and Alex Aranburu for the Tour.
