
After five years of presence at the highest level in the world, the northern team was overtaken at the end of the season by Uno-X.
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Cofidis leaves the World Tour. The French team was mathematically relegated to the ProTour due to insufficient results on Sunday October 19. Ensure completion in 20th place in the UCI rankings cumulatively over the last three seasons, it does not appear in the Top 18 which ensures an automatic place at the first international level. Finishing in 19th place could have allowed him to hope to grab a place at the last minute if the merger between the Lotto and Intermarché-Wanty teams (both qualified in the World Tour) is formalized.
This relegation is still subject to validation of the various licenses by the International Cycling Union (UCI). But the end of the season did not go ideally for Cofidis, overtaken by the Norwegian team Uno-X in a battle for UCI points. Sakarias Loland's victory on Sunday in the Veneto classic, the very last race of the season, as well as Soren Waerenskjold's fifth place in the Chrono des Nations definitively sealed the breakthrough for the team led by Thor Hushovd.
Cofidis, however, saved the essential by securing an automatic invitation to the main races, as the French team is one of the three best teams at the ProTour level. On the other hand, this remains a hard blow for France which only has two teams in the World Tour for the 2026-2029 cycle (Decathlon CMA-GGM and Groupama-FDJ) while it was the only nation to have four. Last week, the disappearance of Arkéa-B&B Hotels was also recorded.