Biking transfers – All the newest information and bulletins for the 2026 season

With the switch window formally opening on August 1, we’re now deep into biking’s switch season, with a lot of the high-profile offers and strikes already performed.

For riders who have not but made their plans for 2026, the tip of the street season will mark the start of a little bit of a scramble to signal, as groups’ begin to shut their books with rosters crammed for subsequent 12 months.

There could also be nonetheless a number of large bulletins to return, however the switch interval thus far has been outlined by some dramatic mid-contract strikes, together with Remco Evenepoel’s swap from Soudal-QuickStep to Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Juan Ayuso’s exit from UAE Crew Emirates-XRG to Lidl-Trek, and Cian Uijtdebroeks’ out-of-the-blue departure from Visma-Lease a Bike to Movistar.

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Elsewhere, the budget-boosted Decathlon-CMA CGM crew have secured star sprinter Olav Kooij, and are constructing a powerful crew round him, together with snapping up Cees Bol and Daan Hoole.

On the ladies’s aspect, final 12 months’s main merry-go-round of strikes implies that we’re seeing fewer actually big-name transfers this autumn, however some essential adjustments are nonetheless occurring. Charlotte Kool made a mid-season contract to Fenix-Deceuninck, while Lidl-Trek have continued their pattern of signing spectacular up-and-coming riders. SD Worx-Protime have been conspicuously quiet thus far, and we’re nonetheless ready for them to announce any new riders for 2026.

Regardless of the dearth of big-name strikes, there are quite a lot of riders in the marketplace nonetheless, owing to the closure of Ceratizit, the probably merger of Lotto and Intermarché-Wanty and anticipated folding of Arkéa-B&B Resorts. Moreover, the WorldTour relegation and promotion is but to be confirmed and the ladies’s market could rumble on even later than the lads’s this 12 months.

There are nonetheless quite a lot of bulletins to return, and loads of large rumours, too, for instance surrounding Derek Gee’s supposed departure from Israel-Premier Tech, although the crew nonetheless say he has a contract.

There’s additionally the carousel of stagiaires – younger, non-professional riders who’re getting trial runs with WorldTour groups in August and the autumn. And out of doors of the riders transferring, employees transfers are essential too, with sports activities director Zak Dempster leaving Ineos for Pink Bull one of the fascinating personnel adjustments thus far. However there are a lot extra.

Cyclingnews is monitoring all actions through the switch season – the whole lot from contract renewals to extensions to retirements – with our devoted switch index throughout the lads’s and ladies’s WorldTeams and ProTeams.

We’ll replace this web page by means of the remainder of the 12 months with each confirmed signing for 2026, constructing a team-by-team checklist of ins and outs, whereas additionally monitoring the newest switch information from the skilled biking peloton.

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Rumours and hypothesis

It’s common for rumours and hypothesis to flow into by means of the peloton at the moment of 12 months, even after the August 1 announcement window opens.

Many of those transform fully true – Evenepoel’s transfer, Ayuso’s departure and Olav Kooij’s arrival at Decathlon had been all reported by varied retailers earlier than they had been formally confirmed.

By October, the hearsay mill is slowing down, however there are nonetheless some query marks, akin to whether or not Biniam Girmay will make a transfer to Israel-Premier Tech for 2026.

There are additionally crew issues which might be but to be resolved, akin to Arkéa-B&B Resorts’ survival, and the doable merger between Intermarché-Wanty and Lotto.

On the ladies’s aspect, high crew SD Worx-Protime are nonetheless but to make any signings for 2026, and hypothesis is mounting over who they could have signed, or why they have not made many strikes.

Riders nonetheless with out a contract

Now in October, a lot of the offers for 2026 have already been introduced, and if not then they’ve at the very least been signed behind the scenes, however there are nonetheless plenty of riders with out an formally confirmed contract for subsequent season.

Riders like Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) and Tim Wellens (UAE Crew Emirates-XRG) have not formally introduced any extensions, however are probably to stick with their present groups. Different riders are very a lot nonetheless in the marketplace, like Sam Welsford (Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), who reportedly had a cope with Ineos fall by means of, and Clément Venturini (Arkéa-B&B Resorts) who’s with out a crew as his squad is poised to fold, regardless of profitable the Coupe de France sequence this 12 months.

Different riders appear to nonetheless be deciding their future and whether or not they’ll proceed or retire, like Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers) and Victor Lafay (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale).

On the ladies’s aspect, we nonetheless do not know the locations or contract conditions of riders like Alison Jackson (EF Training-EasyPost), Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto) and Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco) amongst a number of others.

A few of these could also be signed however not but introduced, however any rider who truly would not have something signed for 2026 but will likely be beginning to fear now as crew rosters begin to replenish.

With the street racing season wrapping up in mid-October, and groups then beginning pre-season coaching camps as quickly as November, anticipate most offers to be performed and dusted fairly quickly. Nevertheless, strikes can go into December and even the New Yr: signing riders in January and February is in no way unprecedented.

Confirmed transfers – crew by crew

That is our index to all transfers which were formally confirmed by groups.

Males’s WorldTour

Alpecin-Deceuninck

Arkéa-B&B Resorts (ends)

Bahrain Victorious

Cofidis

Decathlon CMA CGM

EF Training-EasyPost

Groupama-FDJ

Ineos Grenadiers

Intermarché-Wanty

Jayco-AlUla

Lidl-Trek

Movistar

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Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

Soudal-QuickStep

UAE Crew Emirates-XRG

Visma-Lease a Bike

XDS Astana Crew

Girls’s WorldTour

AG Insurance coverage-Soudal

Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto

Ceratizit Professional Biking

FDJ-Suez

Fenix-Deceuninck

Human Powered Well being

Lidl-Trek

Liv-AlUla-Jayco

Movistar

Roland

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SD Worx-Protime

UAE Crew ADQ

Uno-X Mobility

Visma-Lease a Bike

Males’s ProTeams

Burgos Burpellet BH

Caja Rural-Seguros RGA

Equipo Kern Pharma

Euskaltel-Euskadi

Flanders-Baloise

Israel-Premier Tech

Lotto

Q36.5 Professional Biking

Novo Nordisk

Polti-VisitMalta

Options Tech – Vini Fantini

TotalEnergies

Tudor Professional Biking

Unibet Tietema Rockets

Uno-X Mobility

VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè

Wagner Bazin WB

Girls’s Professional Groups

Arkea-B&B Resorts Girls

Cofidis

EF Training-Oatly

Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi

St Michel-Choice Residence-Auber93 WE

VolkerWessels Biking Crew

Winspace Orange Seal