With just one month left of the 2025 road season, it’s relegation watch time – the teams hoping to remain or be promoted to the men’s WorldTour for the next three years are running out of time to score points. Only the teams in the top 18 of the combined points from the 2023, 2024, and 2025 seasons will make the cut, and this week, Uno-X Mobility are one step closer to meeting that goal.
The Norwegian team surpassed Cofidis over the past few weeks and are now 140 points ahead and gaining momentum. However, because they are in 19th place and 1,104 points behind 18th, they are still heavily dependent on the proposed Intermarché-Wanty merger with Lotto to have a hope of reaching the WorldTour.
If the merger doesn’t go through, Intermarché appear to be relatively safe against relegation with only four weeks of racing to go. Cofidis has averaged less than 200 points per week for most of the year, while Uno-X Mobility have averaged 260 points per week to Intermarché’s 160.
Uno-X had a hugely successful August and September so far, winning the Deutschland Tour and two stages with Søren Wærenskjold, plus the Circuit Franco Belge and Muur Classic Geraardsbergen with Jonas Abrahamsen. Abrahamsen also landed on the podium in the Maryland Cycling Classic. Andreas Leknessund’s sixth place in the UCI Road World Championships time trial netted the team 130 points, too.
That momentum will come in handy in their upcoming races which include the World Championships, three 1.1-ranked one-day races (125 points for the win), four 1.Pro races and the 2.Pro Tour de Langkawi (200 points for the win) and Il Lombardia (275 points for the win).
They’ll need every result, because Cofidis have two WorldTour races – Il Lombardia and the Tour of Guangxi – five 1.1, six 1.Pro and the 2.Pro Tour of Taihu Lake for superior points-scoring opportunities.
Even if Uno-X Mobility remain as a ProTeam, their prospects are still good. After Lotto and Israel-Premier Tech were relegated in 2022, they benefited from the UCI’s rule that requires the top ProTeams to be invited to WorldTour races. Both teams are sitting comfortably in 12th and 13th overall in the three-year rankings this time around.
Uno-X Mobility are solidly the top ProTeam of 2025 in 11th in the 2025 UCI Team Rankings, but the team’s sporting director Gabriel Rasch explained to Cyclingnews that being a WorldTour…
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