| UCI World Tour | |
| Current Season: | 2024 UCI World Tour |
| Pixels: | 280px |
| Sport: | Cycling |
| Founded: | 2009 |
| Organiser: | Union Cycliste Internationale |
| Teams: | 18 (Others invited on race by race basis) |
| Countries: | International |
| Champion: | Rider: Simon Yates (2018) Team: Quick Step (2018) |
The UCI WorldTour is the premier men's elite road cycling tour, sitting above the UCI ProSeries and various regional UCI Continental Circuits. It refers to both the tour of 38 events and, until 2019, an annual ranking system based upon performances in these. The World Ranking was launched in 2009, (known from 2009–2010 as the UCI World Ranking) and merged fully with its predecessor the UCI ProTour in 2011. UCI WorldTeams must compete at all events that were part of the tour prior to the 2017 expansion.
Until the end of 2004, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) maintained both the UCI Road World Rankings, which awarded results for all its sanctioned races, and the UCI Road World Cup, which was awarded on the basis of performance in ten selected one-day events. Both were replaced from the 2005 season by the UCI ProTour and UCI Continental Circuits. However, disputes between the UCI and ASO, the organisers of the Tour de France and other classics, and eventually with the organisers of the Tours of Italy and Spain, meant that by 2008 the ProTour was devalued as a ranking method, as only one of the Monument events, and three other classics, remained under the auspices of the UCI. As a result, the UCI World Ranking was introduced, merging performances from both the ProTour and other prestigious events.[1]
At the start of 2011, the ProTour and World Ranking were fully merged again.[2] The ranking system was re-branded as the 'World Tour', whilst 'ProTeam' [3] was retained as a registration category for professional teams. All ProTeams gain automatic entry to World Tour events.
Despite finishing second in the team rankings in 2012, were initially refused a place in the top tier for 2013.[4] After appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, they were reinstated in February 2013, having already missed the 2013 Tour Down Under.[5] Although the UCI had earlier asserted that the reinstatement of Katusha would result in demotion of another team, they eventually announced that there would be 19 ProTour teams for that one season.[6] In 2015, there are only 17 teams, as there was no applicant for the 18th slot.
For the 2017 season the UCI added 10 new events to the calendar, bringing the total number of events to 38. The new events are: Tour of California, Tour of Qatar, Abu Dhabi Tour, Tour of Turkey, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, London–Surrey Classic, Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop and Strade Bianche.
In 2019, the Three Days of De Panne (a one-day race, although its name retains a description of its former format) was added to the tour, and the Abu Dhabi Tour, having merged with the 2.HC ranked Dubai Tour, was rebranded as the UAE Tour. The World Tour ceased to be a ranking series, replaced in this regard by the UCI World Ranking.
The UCI World Tour consists of 36 events. These events are made up from:
In 2009 and 2010, only riders for ProTour teams and Professional Continental teams could earn points. When a national squad, that is not a UCI registered team, participated in a race, its members were not eligible to receive points. In 2011, a rule change meant that only riders on ProTeam squads were eligible for points.
From 2012 to 2015, the team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships contributed points to the team classification only.
Since 2019, the UCI Men's road racing world ranking, which includes points earned in races that are not part of the WorldTour, has superseded the points allocations for this series of races as the official rankings table for the sport.
| Year | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Tour Down Under | Porte (4/8) | Impey (1/2) | Impey (2/2) | Porte (7/8) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center colspan=2 | Cancelled | Vine | |
| Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race |  Viviani (4/6) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center colspan=2 | Cancelled | Mayrhofer | ||||
| UAE Tour | Costa (5/5) |  Valverde (13/14) | Roglič (3/17) |  A Yates (2/6) | Pogačar (3/24) | Pogačar (8/24) |  Evenepoel (6/8) | |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | Van Avermaet (3/7) | Valgren (1/2) |  Štybar (2/3) | Stuyven (1/2) | van Aert (5/8) | van Baarle (3/3) | ||
| Strade Bianche |  Kwiatkowski (3/8) |  Alaphilippe (3/6) | van Aert (1/8) | van der Poel (5/12) | Pogačar (9/24) | Pidcock (1/2) | ||
| Paris–Nice |  Bernal (2/5) | Schachmann (1/2) | Schachmann (2/2) | Roglič (11/17) | Pogačar (13/24) | |||
| Tirreno–Adriatico | Quintana (7/7) | Kwiatkowski (6/8) | Roglič (4/17) | S Yates (2/2) | Pogačar (4/24) | Pogačar (10/24) | Roglič (13/17) | |
| Milan–San Remo | Kwiatkowski (4/8) | Nibali (9/9) | Alaphilippe (4/6) | van Aert (2/8) | Stuyven (2/2) | Mohorič (2/3) | van der Poel (8/12) | |
| Classic Brugge-De Panne | bgcolor=#ececec colspan=2 align=center | Part of the UCI Europe Tour | Lampaert (3/3) |  S Bennett (1/2) | Philipsen (2/4) | |||
| E3 BinckBank Classic | Van Avermaet (4/7) | Terpstra (3/4) | Štybar (3/3) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | Asgreen (1/2) | van Aert (6/8) | van Aert (8/8) |
| Volta a Catalunya | Valverde (9/14) | Valverde (14/14) | López (2/2) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | A Yates (3/6) | Roglič (14/17) | |
| Gent–Wevelgem | Van Avermaet (5/7) |  Sagan (9/10) |  Kristoff (8/8) | Pedersen (1/3) | van Aert (3/8) | Laporte (1/2) | ||
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | Lampaert (1/3) | Lampaert (2/3) | van der Poel (1/12) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | van Baarle (1/3) | van der Poel (6/12) | Laporte (2/2) |
| Ronde van Vlaanderen | Gilbert (11/13) | Terpstra (4/4) | van der Poel (4/12) | Asgreen (2/2) | van der Poel (7/12) | Pogačar (14/24) | ||
| Itzulia Basque Country | Valverde (10/14) | Roglič (1/17) | Izagirre (2/2) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | Roglič (9/17) | Martínez (2/2) | Vingegaard (2/6) |
| Paris–Roubaix | Van Avermaet (6/7) | Sagan (10/10) | Gilbert (13/13) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | Colbrelli (2/2) | van Baarle (2/3) | van der Poel (9/12) |
 Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey | Ulissi (2/2) | bgcolor=#ececec colspan=4 align=center | Part of the UCI ProSeries | |||||
| Amstel Gold Race | Gilbert (12/13) | Valgren (2/2) | van der Poel (2/12) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | van Aert (4/8) | Kwiatkowski (8/8) | Pogačar (15/24) |
| La Flèche Wallonne | Valverde (11/14) | Alaphilippe (1/6) | Alaphilippe (5/6) | Hirschi (1/3) | Alaphilippe (6/6) | Teuns (2/2) | Pogačar (16/24) | |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Valverde (12/14) | Fuglsang (2/4) | Roglič (7/17) | Pogačar (5/24) | Evenepoel (3/8) | Evenepoel (7/8) | ||
| Eschborn–Frankfurt | Kristoff (5/8) | Kristoff (7/8) | Ackermann (2/2) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | Philipsen (1/4) | S Bennett (2/2) | Kragh Andersen |
| Tour de Romandie | Porte (5/8) | Roglič (2/17) | Roglič (5/17) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | Thomas (5/6) | A Yates (4/6) | |
 Tour of California | Bernal (1/5) | Pogačar (1/24) | bgcolor=#ececec colspan=4 align=center | Not on calendar | ||||
| Giro d'Italia | Dumoulin (1/2) | Froome (12/12) |  Carapaz (1/2) | Bernal (5/5) | Roglič (15/17) | |||
| Critérium du Dauphiné | Fuglsang (1/4) | Thomas (3/6) | Fuglsang (3/4) | Martínez (1/2) | Porte (8/8) | Roglič (12/17) | Vingegaard (3/6) | |
| Tour de Suisse | Špilak (3/3) | Porte (6/8) | Bernal (3/5) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | Carapaz (2/2) | Thomas (6/6) | Skjelmose |
| Tour de France | Froome (10/12) | Thomas (4/6) | Bernal (4/5) | Pogačar (2/24) | Pogačar (6/24) | Vingegaard (1/6) | Vingegaard (4/6) | |
| Clásica San Sebastián | Kwiatkowski (5/8) | Alaphilippe (2/6) | Evenepoel (1/8) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | Evenepoel (4/8) | Evenepoel (8/8) | |
| London–Surrey Classic | Kristoff (6/8) | Ackermann (1/2) | Viviani (5/6) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | bgcolor=#ececec colspan=3 align=center | Not on calendar | |
| Tour de Pologne | Teuns (1/2) | Kwiatkowski (7/8) | Evenepoel (2/8) | Mohorič (3/3) | ||||
| Benelux Tour | Dumoulin (2/2) | Mohorič (1/3) | van der Poel (3/12) | Colbrelli (1/2) | bgcolor=#ececec align=center | Cancelled | Wellens (6/7) | |
| Hamburg Cyclassics | Viviani (1/6) | Viviani (3/6) | Viviani (6/6) | bgcolor=#ececec colspan=2 align=center | Cancelled | Pedersen (2/3) | ||
| Bretagne Classic-Ouest-France | Viviani (2/6) | Naesen (2/2) | Matthews (4/5) | Cosnefroy (1/2) | van Aert (7/8) | Madouas | ||
| Vuelta a España | Froome (11/12) | S Yates (1/2) | Roglič (6/17) | Roglič (8/17) | Roglič (10/17) | Evenepoel (5/8) | Kuss | |
 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | Sagan (8/10) | Matthews (1/5) | Matthews (3/5) | bgcolor=#ececec colspan=2 align=center | Cancelled | Cosnefroy (2/2) | De Lie | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | Ulissi (1/2) | Matthews (2/5) | Van Avermaet (7/7) | bgcolor=#ececec colspan=2 align=center | Cancelled | Pogačar (11/24) | A Yates (5/6) | |
| Il Lombardia | Nibali (8/9) | Mollema (2/2) | Fuglsang (4/4) | Pogačar (7/24) | Pogačar (12/24) | Pogačar (17/24) | ||
 Tour of Guangxi | Wellens (5/7) | bgcolor=#ececec colspan=3 align=center | Cancelled | Vader |
Riders in bold are still active.
| Rank | Cyclist | Wins | First win | Latest win |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tadej Pogačar | 24 | 2019 | 2024 |
| 2 | Primož Roglič | 17 | 2018 | 2024 |
| 3 | 14 | 2009 | 2018 | |
| 4 | 13 | 2009 | 2019 | |
| 5 | Chris Froome | 12 | 2011 | 2018 |
| Mathieu van der Poel | 12 | 2019 | 2024 | |
| 7 | 10 | 2011 | 2018 | |
| 8 | 9 | 2009 | 2016 | |
| 9 | 2009 | 2016 | ||
| 9 | 2010 | 2018 | ||
| 11 | Remco Evenepoel | 8 | 2019 | 2023 |
| Alexander Kristoff | 8 | 2014 | 2019 | |
| Michał Kwiatkowski | 8 | 2015 | 2022 | |
| 8 | 2013 | 2021 | ||
| Wout van Aert | 8 | 2020 | 2023 | |
| 16 | 7 | 2009 | 2014 | |
| Nairo Quintana | 7 | 2013 | 2017 | |
| 7 | 2016 | 2019 | ||
| Tim Wellens | 7 | 2014 | 2024 | |
| 20 | Julian Alaphilippe | 6 | 2018 | 2021 |
| 6 | 2009 | 2012 | ||
| 6 | 2010 | 2015 | ||
| Geraint Thomas | 6 | 2015 | 2022 | |
| Jonas Vingegaard | 6 | 2022 | 2024 | |
| Elia Viviani | 6 | 2017 | 2019 | |
| Adam Yates | 6 | 2015 | 2024 |
Teams in italics are no longer active.
See main article: UCI WorldTeam.
| width=15% | Team ! | width=20% | Country ! | Seasons in World Tour | No. of seasons | Previous team names |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009–2024 | 16 | (2009–2020), (2021–2023) | ||||
| 2009–2024 | 16 | (2009–2020), (2021) | ||||
| 2009–2024 | 16 | (2009), (2010), (2011), (2012), (2012–2014), (2015), (2016), (2016–2017), (2018), (2019), (2020), (2021) | ||||
| 2009–2024 | 16 | (2009–2010) | ||||
| 2009–2024 | 16 | (2009–2011), (2012–2014), (2015–2016), (2017–2018), (2019–2021), (2022) | ||||
| 2009–2024 | 16 | (2009–2012), (2013), (2013–2014), (2015–2018), (2019–2023) | ||||
| (2009–2016) (2017–2024) | 2009–2024 | 16 | (2009), (2010), (2010), (2011–2012), (2013–2016), (2017) | |||
| 2009–2010, 2012–2024 | 15 | (2009–2010), (2010, 2013, 2015–2018), (2012), (2013–2014) | ||||
| 2010–2024 | 15 | (2010–2019), (2019–2020) | ||||
| (2011–2013) (2014–2023) | 2011–2024 | 14 | (2011), (2012), (2013), (2014–2015), (2016–2023) | |||
| 2012–2024 | 13 | (2012), (2012–2016), (2016), (2017), (2018–2020), (2021), (2022) | ||||
| (2013–2014, 2022–2024) (2015–2021) | 2013–2024 | 12 | (2013), (2014), (2015–2016), (2017–2020), (2021–2023), (2023) | |||
| 2017–2024 | 8 | (2017–2019), (2020) | ||||
| 2017–2024 | 8 | (2017–2024) | ||||
| 2009, 2020–2024 | 6 | |||||
| 2021–2024 | 4 | (2021–2022), (2023) | ||||
| 2023–2024 | 2 | |||||
| 2023–2024 | 2 | (2023) |
Teams in italics are no longer active.
| width=15% | Team ! | width=20% | Country ! | Seasons in World Tour | No. of seasons | Previous team names |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009–2022 | 14 | (2009), (2010–2011), (2012–2014) | ||||
| (2009–2016) (2017–2019) | 2009–2019 | 11 | (2009–2016) | |||
| (2011–2018) (2019–2020) | 2011–2020 | 10 | (2011–2018) | |||
| (2009–2013) (2014–2016) | 2009–2016 | 8 | (2009–2010, 2012), (2011), (2012), (2013), (2014–2015) | |||
| 2016–2021 | 6 | (2016–2019), (2020), (2021) | ||||
| 2009–2014 | 6 | (2009), (2009–2010), (2011–2012) | ||||
| 2009–2013 | 5 | |||||
| 2009–2011 | 3 | (2009), (2009), (2010) | ||||
| 2011–2013 | 3 | |||||
| 2020–2022 | 3 | (2020–2021) | ||||
| 2009–2010 | 2 | (2009) | ||||
| 2015–2016 | 2 | |||||
| 2009, 2014 | 2 | (2009) | ||||
| 2009–2010 | 2 | |||||
| 2010–2011 | 2 |
