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UCI confirms WorldTour and ProTeam licences for 2024 season

The full list of UCI teams is largely as expected, with a couple of surprises in the mix

UCI has confirmed the official line-up of WorldTour and ProTour teams for the men’s and women's pelotons

, with no changes to the men’s WorldTour, but two teams stepping up to Women’s WorldTour level for 2024.

 is the main talking point, whilst the UCI also confirmed which ProTeams and women’s Continental squads will receive automatic WorldTour race invites next season.

The most notable changes come in the Women’s WorldTour line-up, with this year marking a promotion and demotion year in the women’s peloton. However, due to the closure of the EF Education-TIBCO-SVB team and the merger between Jayco-AlUla and Liv Racing TeqFind, there was in fact no demotion, with top-ranked Continental teams AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step and Ceratizit-WNT being awarded the two free WorldTour licences.

also applied for a spot in the WorldTour but missed out due to their lower ranking compared to AG Insurance and Ceratizit-WNT.

, a Continental team from Uzbekistan, has earned invitations to all the Women’s WorldTour races in 2024 as the second-best ranked Continental squad, outside of those being promoted. For reference, the other team receiving an invitation to all the WorldTour races is 

, a team that earned 1,975 UCI points. Tashkent City, conversely, earned 1,703 points, with most coming away from European racing.

Absent from the Women’s WorldTour will be the new 

 team, who were unable to take over the licence from the outgoing EF Education-TIBCO-SVB squad and, as a new team, were not in contention for one of the promotion spots.

On the men's side, the only real change comes in the form of the loss of the Australian ProTeam Bolton Equities Black Spoke and the American ProTeam Human Powered Health. Only one team will be replacing the two outgoing squads, with the TDT-Unibet squad ascending to the ProTour level.

The 18 WorldTour teams remain the same, with the men’s current promotion/relegation cycle ending at the end of 2025, where licences will change hands based on rankings.

 will have automatic wild-card invitations to all the WorldTour races in 2024 as the two highest-performing ProTeams in 2023, while 

, as they will be known in 2024, will receive invitations to all the one-day races on the WorldTour.

2024 women’s automatic wildcard selections:

2024 men’s automatic wildcard selections:

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Name	Age	UCI Career Wins	UCI Points
Ane Santesteban	33	1	807
Nadia Quagliotto	27	0	308
Catalina Soto Campos	23	2	237
Eri Yonamine	33	12	208
Usoa Ostolaza Zabala	26	0	170

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