Women's WorldTour 2025 - A complete guide to the 15 teams of the peloton

Heading into the 10th year of the Women’s WorldTour, the 2025 season in women’s cycling looks to be one of the biggest yet, with more WWT events than ever, and a full complement of 15 WWT teams with top talent spread across the peloton.

After a period of SD Worx-Protime domination, a raft of big-name transfers this off-season have seen several stars change team, and likely the most even distribution of talent the sport has seen for a long time. The days of one dominant outfit appear to be over, with various teams now boasting riders who can win Grand Tours and Spring Classics.

With the promotion and relegation system now in place for the Women’s WorldTour, those around the bottom of the rankings will have an eye on scoring all-important points to secure their licence when renewals come around again at the end of next year. With WorldTour status securing invites to all the biggest races, including the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, so staying at this level is very important.

Long heralded as the number one team in women’s cycling, SD Worx-Protime might be challenged for that status in 2025, with various high-profile transfers spreading the talent around the peloton. Most notably, SD Worx have let go of their star rider Demi Vollering, who heads to FDJ-SUEZ. Though a loss on paper, there could be some positives in this, as it will give world champion Lotte Kopecky clearer leadership on the team – she’s already the best Classics rider in the peloton, and is growing her GC credentials too.

The leadership questions may be far from over, though, with Anna van der Breggen returning from retirement and taking aim at the Tour de France Femmes, but it remains to be seen where her level will be. The team will also still boast the peloton’s best sprinter, Lorena Wiebes, and we can expect her to take aim at some of the flatter Classics. The team may not have super team status anymore, but with those leaders and the likes of Mischa Bredewold, Blanka Vas and Marta Lach, they remain incredibly strong on all terrains.

In 2024, a large crop of neo-pros and some injuries slightly hindered Trek as they had fewer riders to rely on for big races, so it’s no surprise that they’ve brought in a raft of consistent and experienced talent. With no Longo Borghini, they no longer have one obvious leader for the biggest races, but with riders like Elisa Balsamo and Norsgaard in the Classics, Gaia Realini, Fisher-Black and Markus in stage races, and Shirin van Anrooij for seemingly anything, they have plenty of options to still contend for the win.

Kasia Niewiadoma will remain leader, and is expected to focus on the Tour again, but she’ll share the onus of leadership with new recruit Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, which will be good for the team that has heavily relied on Niewiadoma for a long time. The pair should be formidable in the Classics, whilst the likes of Neve Bradbury, Antonia Niedermaier and Ricarda Bauernfeind offer stage racing reinforcement.

The newly named Team Picnic PostN (previously Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) will be focusing on continuation rather than transformation in 2025, with few changes to their roster and a longer-term focus on development and talent. At the core of their operation will be Charlotte Kool, with the sprinter returning to her best and winning two stages of the Tour de France Femmes in 2024. The team have put a lot into her lead-out, which has also freed up Pfeiffer Georgi for more opportunities, and she will lead their Classics efforts.

When it comes to climbers and GC riders, the team have swapped Juliette Labous for Marta Cavalli, but it’s not clear what level Cavalli will return to, and the Dutch outfit may focus their stage racing more on the likes of development and learning for promising talents Nienke Vinke and Francesca Barale. They’re still a big and well-resourced team, though, so securing top results will also be key alongside their development aims.

UAE Team ADQ have been consistent but not quite top-level players for the last couple of seasons, but they’ve bolstered their assets for 2025 with the arrival of Elisa Longo Borghini from Lidl-Trek. The Tour of Flanders and Giro d’Italia winner brings with her a wealth of success, plus reinforcements from Trek in the form of Elynor Bäckstedt and Brodie Chapman, and looks well placed to build upon her 2024 successes.

As well as securing the Italian star, the team have retained much of their core and consistent squad, including Silvia Persico, Erica Magnaldi and Eleonora Gasparrini – riders who can mix it themselves in big races, too. They’re losing a sprinter in Chiara Consonni, but riders like Tereza Neumanová and Sofie van Rooijen can step into that role, and in any case, having a rider like Longo Borghini will mean the team is looking at bigger goals.

Team stalwart Marianne Vos will remain at the centre of their operations for 2025, and she proved this year that she still has a lot to give. The headline rider for next year, however, will be Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, the former road world champion who is making a return from mountain biking with eyes on winning the Tour de France Femmes. The team have also brought on talented climber Marion Bunel, and cyclo-cross world champion Fem van Empel is expected to focus heavily on the road next year, where her specialities are yet to be finalised.

FDJ-SUEZ have gradually built into being one of the top teams over the last few years, and they’ll take another big leap in 2025 with the arrival of several top riders, most notably Demi Vollering and Juliette Labous, as well as Elise Chabbey and Ally Wollaston. Losing the core trio of Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, Grace Brown and Marta Cavalli would be a blow to any other team, but FDJ seem to have filled that gap and more with some astute signings and a reported injection of cash from Specialized.

With Vollering and Labous joining Évita Muzic, the team’s focus on 2025 will be the Grand Tours, and they’re capable of winning any of them, though the Tour de France will be the focus for Vollering and the French team. They don’t have a stand-out Classics star, but riders like Chabbey, Wollaston and Amber Kraak should be competitive in one-day races, and with so much depth and talent in their roster, FDJ are likely to be protagonists in every race they start next year.

Ceratizit-WNT are the newest members of the Women’s WorldTour, having secured promotion at the end of 2023 after a long tenure as one of the strongest outfits at Continental level. They had a successful first WorldTour season, most notably winning a stage of the Tour de France Femmes with Cedrine Kerbaol, but they’ll have a big task to replicate that kind of success in 2025 with several of their key riders departing.

Among the seven incoming riders, dsm-firmenich PostNL’s Daniek Hengeveld stands out as a rider with potential, as does sprinter Sara Fiorin. However, it’s likely the team will rely on a few existing riders for results: Mylène de Zoete is becoming a challenger in the sprints, whilst Sandra Alonso brings experience and versatility in a lot of different races. Big successes won’t be the goal for Ceratizit in 2025, but rather rebuilding and securing enough points to stay in the WorldTour.

The Australian team also boasts a handful of consistent, experienced opportunists, so expect to see the likes of Jeanne Korevaar, Quinty Ton and Silke Smulders representing the team in breakaways and smaller races. The outfit also has a development squad riding at Continental level, so we may see some of those riders crop up in races for the WorldTour team as they look to build their next generation of talent.

Since saying goodbye to their talisman Annemiek van Vleuten at the end of 2023, Movistar have been on a journey of reinvention, and that continues into 2025. Liane Lippert was billed to fill that role in 2024, but injury hampered her season, so eyes will be on her and what she can deliver as a leader at full fitness. Despite losing core rider Emma Norsgaard, the team look to be going into 2025 stronger than they have been for a while, with Marlen Reusser joining a roster that already includes Olivia Baril, Arlenis Sierra, and breakthrough rider of 2024 Mareille Meijering. Once Reusser is back to full health, she should be a threat in both the Classics and stage races.

The team have also secured the most exciting junior talent at the moment in Cat Ferguson. Though the 18-year-old is expected to follow a conservative programme as she enters the WorldTour, she’s already won at the senior level and surely will still be racing to win in some of the races she does start. With Carys Lloyd and Paula Ostiz also joining from the junior ranks, Movistar clearly have an eye on the future.

Once considered just the road arm of a cyclo-cross team, Fenix-Deceuninck cemented their status as so much more than that in 2024, taking a stage, third overall and the young rider’s jersey at the Tour de France, as well as other top GC results. Finding her abilities renewed after leaving Canyon-SRAM, Pauliena Rooijakkers goes into 2025 firmly amongst the top GC riders after her Tour podium this summer.

Their star rider Puck Pieterse is also just going from strength to strength, excelling in the few races she did in 2024 and proving at the Tour that she’s definitely not ‘just’ a Classics rider, as might be expected of the mountain bike world champion. The team have only made one signing for 2025 – moving Xaydee Van Sinaey up from their development squad – but with riders like Christina Schweinberger, Yara Kastelijn and Julie De Wilde on their books, they have a formula that works and will take plenty of confidence into 2025.

The team has also picked up Thalita de Jong, a very experienced rider who seems to be in a second wind of her career, and should be a reliable points scorer for a team where ranking is important. For the flatter races, the team will look to track riders Daria Pikulik and Maggie Coles-Lyster whilst Olympic gold medallist Lily Williams is an emerging talent in the Classics. Though a smaller team, Human Powered Health certainly won’t just ghost through 2025.

The biggest revelation of 2024 was Kim Le Court Pienaar, who won a stage of the Giro amongst other successes, and will look to hone her skills in 2025. Other climbers include Sarah Gigante, who is finally finding her way in Europe, Tour stage winner Justine Ghekiere, and new signing Urška Žigart, who will all be supported by team captain Ashleigh Moolman. For the flatter races and Classics, losing Ally Wollaston is a blow, but they’ve found an exciting replacement in Alex Manly, who just needs some support and leadership to unlock her potential.

One rider capable of that is Aniina Ahtosalo, the Finnish sprinter who has been mixing it with the best this year, and is knocking on the door of a breakthrough win. They’ve also secured the signature of Norwegian talent Ingvild Gåskjenn, who looks to be a threat in punchy races after her podium at Amstel Gold Race in 2024. With the likes of Susanne Andersen, Anouska Koster and Elinor Barker in free roles, the team has a solid base to work with and the firepower to be aggressive.

Tamara Dronova is expected to stay with the team, and will be their spearhead in most races – she’s a punchy and capable rider who is often underrated, perhaps due to the team she rides for. Elena Hartmann, Elena Pirrone and Olympic champion Anna Kiesenhofer are other dependable riders that the team would do well to keep for 2025, and ideally they will have picked up a few younger talents from the Continental level, but this is all unclear with only a few months to go until the season starts.

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