Women's WorldTour – The definitive guide for 2025

Overview

Professional cycling showcases 28 top-tier women's events that comprise the 2025 Women's WorldTour calendar. 

In previous seasons, riders and teams competed for top-tier racing points to put toward the individual, youth and team standings. However, in 2025, there is no longer a leader's jersey for the individual and youth standings. Instead, all points go toward the UCI Road World Rankings for individuals, teams and nations.

The Women's WorldTour season starts annually at the Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race as part of a packed season of Australian summer racing that began the New Year.

The series then headed to the Middle East for the UAE Tour Women, a four-day stage race held in February, before landing on European soil to start the Spring Classics at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, which kicked off 'opening weekend' in early March. 

A new addition was included in the calendar in 2025 with the revived Milan-San Remo Women, adding a fourth Monument for the women's peloton to contest.

The next one-day races annually included highlights at the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix Femmes before culminating at the Ardennes Classics final at Liège-Bastogne-Liège at the end of in April.

The late-spring stage racing season annually begins in May with three back-to-back top-tier events, including the La Vuelta Femenina, Itzulia Women and Vuelta a Burgos Feminas. The series then moves to the UK for The Women's Tour of Britain, and then back to Europe for the Tour de Suisse.

There's a new short stopover in Denmark for the one-day Copenhagen Sprint before summer stage racing moves into full swing in July and early August with the Giro d'Italia Women and Tour de France Femmes.

Late-season racing begins with the Tour de Romandie in August. While the Tour of Scandinavia was cancelled, there are the autumn races in September and October: one-day GP de Plouay, Simac Ladies Tour, Tour of Chongming Island and finally the one-day Tour of Guangxi.

Check in after the 2025 Women's WorldTour races for our full reports, results, galleries, news, features and analysis. Subscribe to Cyclingnews.

Rankings

UCI Road World Ranking - Individual, as of April 14

UCI Road World Ranking - Teams, as of April 14

History

Women's WorldTour - History

The Women's WorldTour series replaced the former one-day World Cup in 2016 and has grown to include 28 races – with a mix of one-day and stage races – to offer the women’s peloton and cycling fans 10 months of professional bike racing. 

An exceptional season saw Lotte Kopecky win the individual overall series at the end of last year when she also claimed her second elite women's world title in 2024. Her former teammate Demi Vollering took the top honours the year before, in 2023, the year she won the Tour de France Femmes.

Now-retired Annemiek van Vleuten won the series title three times – 2018, 2021 and 2022. Previous winners of the individual elite women's ranking also include Lizzie Deignan in 2020, Marianne Vos in 2019, Anna van der Breggen in 2017 and inaugural champion Megan Guarnier in 2016.

Many familiar faces have left their marks as winners of the best young rider classification, including Shirin van Anrooij, Niamh Fisher-Black, Liane Lippert, Lorena Wiebes, Sofia Bertizzolo, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, and Kasia Niewiadoma, and all have gone on to become leading contenders in the elite women's ranks over the years.

The teams' classification has been dominated by one team, SD Worx-ProTime (formerly Boels Dolmans), which won the series eight times in the last eight seasons from 2016 to 2019 and again from 2021 to 2024. Trek-Segafredo, now called Lidl-Trek, is the only team to have broken their winning streak, taking victory in 2020.

Calendar

2025 Women's WorldTour - Calendar

Teams

2025 Women's WorldTour - Teams

• AG Insurance-Soudal
• Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto
• Ceratizit-WNT
• Team Picnic-PostNL
• FDJ-SUEZ
• Fenix-Deceuninck
• Human Powered Health
• Lidl-Trek
• Liv-AlUla Jayco
• Movistar
• Roland Cycling
• Team SD Worx-Protime
• Visma-Lease a Bike
• UAE Team ADQ
• Uno-X Pro Cycling

In a reset of the Women's WorldTeams, the UCI has awarded 15 licences for the 2024-2025 seasons.

In the final year of that two-year block, however, the women's teams now face a relegation system that will be decided by five criteria: a new 'sporting' requirement (an accumulation of points), along with demonstrated and documented administrative, ethical, financial, and organizational standards. 

Get to know the top-tier squad in Cyclingnews' complete guide to the 2025 Women's WorldTeams.

That means that 2025 is a decisive year for the 15 teams if they want to renew their top-tier licences as they face steep competition from emerging teams, especially those that now make up the newly introduced second-tier of Women's ProTeams.

This new level of women’s teams was introduced with seven teams: Arkea-B&B Hotels Woman, Cofidis Women Team, EF Education-Oatly, Laboral Kutxa Fundacion Euskadi, St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93, Volkerwessels Cycling Team, Winspace Orange Seal, and they have strong ambitions to move up to UCI Women’s WorldTeam level from 2026.

There are currently 36 third-tier Continental Women's Teams registered with the UCI.

Historical moments of note on the Women's WorldTour: The UCI introduced minimum salaries for Women's WorldTeams in 2020, which have gradually increased over the previous five seasons. That same year, the UCI also introduced a maternity leave clause that allows women to take the time needed away from competition during pregnancy. The UCI also introduced mandatory live television and live streaming for all events that are part of the Women's WorldTour, increasing visibility of the sport and building new audiences.

For stage races of six stages and more of the UCI Women’s WorldTour, such as the Giro d'Italia Women, Tour de France Femmes, La Vuelta Femenina, Simac Ladies Tour, and Women's Tour, teams will start with seven riders and two team support vehicles.

Races

Women's WorldTour - Guide to the races

Women's Tour Down Under - Australia

The Women's Tour Down Under, which was cancelled in 2021 and 2022 due to the pandemic - was the season opener in January and has been elevated to the top tier of races for the first time since it began in 2016. The three-day race is held annually in and around Adelaide and, for the first time, includes the iconic Willunga Hill.

Cadel Evans Road Race - Australia

The Victorian race was first held in 2015, and the Deakin University Elite Women’s Road Race was added to the Women’s WorldTour calendar in 2020. The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race returned in 2023 after two years of absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

UAE Tour Women - United Arab Emirates

The inaugural event was held in 2023 as the women's peloton headed to the Middle East for the four-day race, which offered three sprint opportunities and a summit finish on stage 3 atop Jebel Hafeet.

Spring Classics

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - Belgium

The long-running Classics curtain-raiser Omloop het Nieuwsblad joined the WorldTour for its 18th edition as part of the 'opening weekend' in 2024. Flanders Classics currently oversees six of the most popular Spring Classics, beginning with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs and Brabantse Pijl. 

Strade Bianche Women - Italy

After the Spring Classics opener at Omloop het Nieuwsblad, the Women’s WorldTour resumes at Strade Bianche in Siena, Italy. The race takes riders onto the white gravel roads routed throughout the scenic Tuscany region and finishing at the Piazza del Campo in Siena. 

Ronde van Drenthe Women -  Netherlands

The sprinter-friendly route between Assen and Hoogeveen was a staple on the Women's WorldTour but was cancelled in 2025. Its route was made up of a series of loops over cobbled sectors and four trips up the VAM Berg, with 50km to the finish line. Riders who have historically done well in this race are powerful one-day specialists on flatter terrain.

Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio - Italy

The series headed back to Italy for the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio. The women's field traditionally races through the hills surrounding Cittiglio before finishing on 17.8-kilometre circuits around the city. Each lap includes a climb through Orino, but the wide-open roads to the finish line often cater to a reduced group sprint.

Milan-San Remo Women - Italy

The top-tier peloton lineed up in Genoa along the picturesque coast of the Mediterranean for what marked a historic moment in women's cycling, the return of Milan-San Remo Women in 2025. It had been 20 years since the women's field has been offered the opportunity to compete in the race that was formerly called La Primavera Rosa held from 1999 to 2005.

Classic Brugge-De Panne Women - Belgium

This is a race traditionally well suited to sprinters. The route begins in Brugge and passes through Leeuw, Koekelare and Schoorbakke, and then the contest moves on to two finishing circuits in De Panne.

Gent-Wevelgem Women - Belgium

The second of six Flanders Classics events after Omloop het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem is one of the flatter one-day races and typically sees a clash of the sprinters. The start of the race was moved from Ypres' Grote Markt to the Menin Gate and included several main climbs, such as the Beneberg, Kemmelberg and Monteberg en route to the finish in Wevelgem.

Tour of Flanders Women - Belgium

The Tour of Flanders, one of the most prestigious of the Spring Classics, begins and ends in Oudenaarde. It covers a combination of cobbled sectors and steep climbs, including the more decisive climbs near the end of the race – Kruisberg/Hotond, Oude Kwaremont, and the Paterberg – before the finish line in Oudenaarde.

Paris-Roubaix Femmes - France

The inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2021 was a day written into the history books for both women's cycling and for the first winner of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes - Lizzie Deignan.  Her teammate, Elisa Longo Borghini, followed up with another win for Trek-Segafredo in the 2022 edition and Alison Jackson (EF) won in 2023. The 116km route from Denain to the Roubaix Velodrome includes 17 sectors of cobbled roads, with two of the pavé sectors rated at the maximum difficulty level – Mons-en-Pévèle and the Carrefour de l'Arbre.

Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition - Netherlands

The first of the three Ardennes Classics. The race starts and finishes in Maastricht and includes a hilly course that finishes on three 17.8-kilometre circuits that feature the Geulhemmerberg, Bemelerberg and Cauberg. From the top of the Cauberg, there is roughly 1.7km to the finish line.

La Flèche Wallonne Femmes - Belgium

La Flèche Wallonne is the oldest and the second of the three one-day races that form the women's Ardennes Classics. The series has only been in place for women since 2017, when Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition made its return after a 14-year hiatus, followed by the long-running La Flèche Wallonne and the debut of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The one-day women's race is famed for its finale on the Mur de Huy, which the women's peloton climbs three times. Now-retired Anna van der Breggen won a record seven consecutive titles at La Flèche Wallonne.

Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes - Belgium

Liège-Bastogne-Liège concludes the Ardennes Classics week before riders turn their attention to the stage racing season. The race started in Bastogne and, for the first time last year, ascended the Côte de Mont-le-Soie, before tackling the Côte de Wanne and Côte de la Haute-Levée. The final climbs, Côte de La Redoute and Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons, were tackled before the finish in Liège.

Stage Races

La Vuelta Femenina - Spain

In a major shake-up for the former Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta, organisers changed its name to La Vuelta Feminina, expanded to seven stages, and moved to May in 2023. The event started as a one-day race in Madrid in 2015 and expanded to two stages in 2018, and a third stage was added in 2020. The race was further expanded in 2021 to four stages, and in 2022 to five stages, and seven stages in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Itzulia Women - Spain

In its third edition of the Women's WorldTour, hosted by the same organiers of the one-day race in Clásica San Sebastián, the race offered three challenging stages through the mountainous Spanish Basque Country. It is organised by OCETA, which also runs the long-standing six-day Itzulia Basque Country men's stage race.

Vuelta a Burgos Feminas - Spain

Vuelta a Burgos Feminas was upgraded to the Women's WorldTour in 2021 and now concludes the triple top-tier stage races offered in May with four hilly stages. The three top-tier stage races are held in conjunction with a magnificent series of one-day races in the country that include Emakumeen Nafarroako Women's Elite Classics, Navarra Women's Elite Classics, Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar, Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria, and more.

Women’s Tour of Britain - Great Britain

Organisers, SweetSpot, brought parity to the event’s prize fund with the men's Tour of Britain, which was set at €97,880 across six days of racing in 2019. They also announced a five-year plan to offer live coverage of the women’s race, which is required to be part of the top-tier series. However, due to challenges surrounding the pandemic, they were forced to reduce the prize fund. Organisers aim to return to prize money parity. The 2023 edition was cancelled, and the four-day race returned under new organisers in 2024 and 2025.

Tour de Suisse Women - Switzerland

Taking place in eastern Switzerland, the Tour de Suisse Women was held in 2023 for the first time in four editions as a Women's WorldTour event. The first Tour de Suisse for women was held i n 2001 as a five-day event, but went away for 20 years before relaunching as a 2.1 ranked women's race taking place on the opening weekend of the men’s eight-day WorldTour Tour de Suisse. In 2021, Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) won the title, followed in 2022 by Lucinda Brand (Trek-Segafredo). Marlen Reusser (Team SD Worx) won the overall title in 2023.

Giro d’Italia Women - Italy

The Giro d'Italia Donne has been officially rebranded as the Giro d'Italia Women in 2024, with new race organiser RCS Sport taking over the management of the race on a four-year contract through 2027. It will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The event traditionally offers 10 days of racing and iconic mountain passes such as the Stelvio, Zoncolan, Gavia, and Mortirolo. In 2024, the race was reduced to seven stages but included a mountaintop finish at Blockhaus. In 2025, the route includes three summit finishes - Aprica, Valdobbiadene and Monte Nerone.

Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift - France

The rebirth of the Tour de France avec Zwift marked a history-making moment in the sport during the 2022 season, and was won by Annemiek van Vleuten at La Planches des Belles Filles. Once again hosting the best riders in the world, in 2023, Demi Vollering secured the overall victory when the route included the Col du Tourmalet, and in 2024, Kasia Niewiadoma won the yellow jersey atop Alpe d'Huez. The fourth edition of the modern incarnation of the women's Tour de France will feature Col de Madeleine, Col de Joux Plane, and a mountaintop finale at Châtel

Late-season rounds

 Tour de Romandie - Switzerland

Now in its fourth edition, the women's version of the Tour de Romandie takes the peloton into the Swiss mountains. The women's four-day event marks the penultimate stage race of the top-tier series in Europe.

Tour of Scandinavia - Norway/Denmark -  [Cancelled]

Organisers of the former Ladies Tour of Norway revealed their plans to move ahead with the long-awaited 'Battle of the North' in 2022. The event takes place across Denmark and Norway with a name change to the Tour of Scandinavia and had risen to become one of the most popular stage races with a mountaintop finish at Norefjell. Organisers cancelled the 2024 edition due to lack of funding, and it was cancelled again in 2025.

GP de Plouay - Classic Lorient Agglomération - Trophée Ceratizit - France

It marks the beginning of the wind-down to the season, Classic Lorient Agglomération - Trophée CERATIZIT - better known as the GP de Plouay. Organisers introduced a new parcour for the 2022 edition with a 159.5km route that included an opening 127km loop. The race then finished on 2.5 laps of an 11.7km local circuit around Plouay.  The laps included three times the climb of Le Lezot (900m at 5.5%, 14% section) and two times la bosse de Rostervel (1,500m at 4.5%, 10% section). 

Simac Ladies Tour - Netherlands

The biggest stage race in the Netherlands, joining the Women’s WorldTour in 2017, is heading into its 27th edition. Organisers annually welcome the top women’s teams to compete in six days of late-season racing. Former winners include Leontien van Moorsel, Petra Rosner, Kristin Armstrong, and Annemiek van Vleuten, Lorena Wiebes, to name a few, while Marianne Vos has won the overall title four times.

Tour of Chongming Island - China 

The Tour of Chongming Island returned after a three-year hiatus in 2023. The race has traditionally been well-suited to sprinters because it includes three flat stages, and that was the case again this year. Although the race was normally held in May, it moved to an October date and was the last stage race of the season.

Tour of Guangxi - China

The Tour of Guangxi, also cancelled in 2020, 2021 and 2022, marked the conclusion of the 2023 Women's WorldTour. In the last edition held in 2019, the women raced 146 kilometres with a start and finish in Guilin. The route was mainly flat, and it catered to the sprinters.