In January of 2017, the UCI introduced the creation of cyclocross specific teams. If everyone will please turn to article 5.5.001 in their UCI cyclocross bible, you will see that 5.5.001 defines a cyclocross team as “an entity consisting of a minimum of three riders, each of whom must be of the age of 19 years and older.” A UCI cyclocross team must include a minimum of one women rider. There is no minimum for the number of men on the team, which means an all-women squad is possible.

A rider who is already a member of another discipline’s UCI registered team, may be registered in a UCI cyclocross team if there is a signed agreement between the rider, the UCI cyclocross team and the “other discipline” team. The members of a UCI cyclocross team are employed or sponsored by the same entity, for the purpose of taking part in cyclocross events on the UCI international CX calendar.

The first question that seems to come up when seeing the list of UCI cyclocross teams is “hey, I don’t see ___________ on there. Can they no longer race UCI races?” The answer is that you do not need to be a registered team to participate, but registering will garner benefits that non-registered teams do not enjoy. These benefits are found in article 5.5.017. Let’s go there now:

UCI cyclocross teams registered with UCI receive benefits which include:

(a) advertising on leader’s jersey of the UCI cyclo-cross world cup as per article 5.3.023;

(b) name of the team on the entry / start lists and results / rankings edited during a UCI cyclo-cross world cup;

(c) 2 accreditations for the team managers zone in the pit area and 2 parking passes per UCI cyclo-cross team during UCI cyclo-cross world championships and UCI cyclo-cross world cup;

(d) mailing list providing a direct information from UCI;

(e) publication of the team’s name, composition, geographical and digital addresses on the UCI website;

(f) publication of the UCI cyclo-cross team ranking.

Riders who are members of a UCI registered team must be given a written contract that contains, as a minimum, the provisions of the standard contract that can be found in Annex 5 of the cyclocross regulations.

Now that the nuts and bolts are out of the way, here are a few interesting tidbits that can be gleaned from the team rosters listed below. First off, Tom Pidcock, who entered into a two year contract with the Telenet Fidea Lions, last year, has started his own team. Sven Nys and Pidcock separated amicably. According to a team statement, Nys said that from the very first meetings with Tom we knew how he would like his career to build up and that he is a rider who is sought after by WorldTour teams. We have worked together in a nice way in the past year and we would have preferred it for another year. But when a team of that allure makes an offer, we do not want to stop Tom.” So it looks like by doing this, Pidcock is keeping his options open for his road racing career.

The other notable addition to the registered teams is the Trek Factory Racing CX team, the first-ever all women UCI registered cyclocross team. TFR CX will field a roster of three women: two-time world champ Evie Richards, world champ silver medalist Ellen Noble, and Trek Cyclocross Collective graduate Emma Swartz.

There are 17 registered teams. Seven from Belgium, three from France, two from Spain, two from the United States, two from Italy and one from Great Britain.

And without further ado, get ready to peruse some rosters because here are your 2018-2019 Season teams:

Corendon-Circus (BEL)

CANT Sanne 08.10.1990 BEL DEKKER Jens 13.12.1998 NED DEL CARMEN ALVARADO Ceylin 06.08.1998 NED MEEUSEN Tom 07.11.1988 BEL MEISEN Marcel 08.01.1989 GER TURNER Ben 28.05.1999 GBR VAN DER POEL David 15.06.1992 NED VAN DER POEL Mathieu 19.01.1995 NED

Crelan-Charles (BEL)

GODRIE Stan 09.01.1993 NED KAPTHEIJNS Maud 28.09.1994 NED MERLIER Tim 30.10.1992 BEL VAN AERT Wout 15.09.1994 BEL

Delikia-Ginestar (ESP)

ESTEBAN AGUERO Ismael 16.09.1983 ESP IBARROLA ALBIZUA Luisa 13.03.2000 ESP ORTS LLORET Felipe 01.04.1995 ESP

GARNEAU-EASTON p/b TRANSITIONS LIFECARE (USA)

GOMEZ VILLAFANE Benjamin 18.06.2000 USA KISSEBERTH Jack 09.03.1993 USA POSTIER Dylan 05.11.1991 USA RICHEY Craig 24.06.1984 CAN VAN DEN HAM Michael 02.08.1992 CAN ZAVETA Erica 06.09.1989 USA

KEMPENSE CXV (BEL)

BOROŠ Michael 09.08.1992 CZE HOEKE Geerte 14.07.1990 NED JACOBS Johan 01.03.1997 SUI LOOCKX Lander 25.04.1997 BEL MERLIER Braam 11.02.1994 BEL ROMBOUTS Seppe 14.05.1998 BEL VERMEERSCH Florian 12.03.1999 BEL WOUTERS Sieben 23.06.1996 NED

KTM ALCHEMIST RACING TEAM (ITA)

HEIGL Nadja 15.02.1996 AUT SAMPARISI Lorenzo 21.08.1993 ITA SAMPARISI Nicolas 01.04.1992 ITA SPADONI Gabriele 19.08.2000 ITA

Marlux-Bingoal (BEL)

DE CLERCQ Angelo 10.12.1991 BEL DEBEIR Arno 12.07.1999 BEL FRANCK Alicia 04.12.1994 BEL ISERBYT Eli 22.10.1997 BEL JOSEPH Thomas 06.12.1996 BEL PAUWELS Kevin 12.04.1984 BEL PAUWELS Tijl 24.08.1998 BEL VANTHOURENHOUT Dieter 20.06.1985 BEL VANTHOURENHOUT Michael 10.12.1993 BEL VERDONSCHOT Laura 04.12.1996 BEL

NESTA CX TEAM (ESP)

ANIA GONZALEZ Daniel 14.08.1987 ESP GONZALEZ BLANCO Lucia 09.07.1990 ESP SUAREZ FERNANDEZ Kevin 14.06.1994 ESP

PAUWELS SAUZEN – VASTGOEDSERVICE (BEL)

ADAMS Jens 05.06.1992 BEL BELLENS Jarno 18.07.2000 BEL CAMPS Jelle 05.04.1999 BEL KOPECKY Tomas 08.04.2000 CZE PEETERS Jinse 26.05.1999 BEL PEETERS Yannick 15.11.1996 BEL SELS Loes 25.07.1985 BEL SOETE Daan 19.12.1994 BEL SWEECK Diether 17.12.1993 BEL SWEECK Laurens 17.12.1993 BEL VANDEBOSCH Toon 19.06.1999 BEL VERSCHUEREN Jolien 07.05.1990 BEL

S1NEO CONNECT CYCLING TEAM (FRA)

DELBOVE Joris 15.07.2000 FRA HUMBERT Valentin 03.09.1996 FRA MOREL PETITGIRARD Marlène 02.05.1988 FRA MOUREY Francis 08.12.1980 FRA NAVARRO Quentin 09.03.1998 FRA

SELLE ITALIA – GUERCIOTTI – ELITE (ITA)

BARONI Francesca 04.11.1999 ITA BERTOLINI Gioele 26.04.1995 ITA DORIGONI Jakob 10.03.1998 ITA SALA Stefano 25.03.1997 ITA

TARTELETTO – ISOREX (BEL)

BONNE Jenko 22.04.1997 BEL DERVEAUX Niels 17.03.1997 BEL KUYPERS Gerben 01.02.2000 BEL MUSEEUW Stefano 01.06.1997 BEL UYTDEWILLIGEN Ingmar 08.10.1991 BEL VAN COMPERNOLLE Kenneth 30.03.1988 BEL VAN DE KERCKHOVE Nick 13.03.1996 BEL VAN DE STEENE Kim 08.07.1986 BEL VAN DEN EYNDE Vince 10.02.2000 BEL VRACHTEN Arne 23.02.1999 BEL

TEAM CHAZAL CANYON (FRA)

BENOIST Antoine 06.08.1999 FRA CHAINEL Steve 06.09.1983 FRA CRISPIN Mickael 07.04.1998 FRA GRAS Yan 07.01.1996 FRA SPATZ Eléonore 27.05.1983 FRA

TEAM CROSS SAFIR GANOVA (FRA)

CANAL Fabien 04.04.1989 FRA FALENTA Alois 23.02.1989 FRA PETIT Marlène 01.04.1991 FRA RIVET Benjamin 01.02.2000 FRA THOMAS Victor 29.04.1998 FRA

TELENET FIDEA LIONS (BEL)

AERNOUTS Jim 23.03.1989 BEL AERTS Thijs 03.11.1996 BEL AERTS Toon 19.10.1993 BEL BEKAERT Yentl 18.07.1999 BEL CLEPPE Nicolas 12.12.1995 BEL GOEMAN Andreas 07.08.1999 BEL HERMANS Quinten 29.07.1995 BEL NAGENGAST Fleur 28.01.1998 NED TRUYEN Marthe 30.09.1999 BEL VAN DER HAAR Lars 23.07.1991 NED VAN KESSEL Corne 07.08.1991 NED VAN LOY Ellen 16.09.1980 BEL

TP Racing (GBR)

PIDCOCK Thomas 30.07.1999 GBR TULETT Daniel 03.07.1999 GBR WADSWORTH Emily 08.08.1999 GBR

Trek Factory Racing CX (USA)

NOBLE Ellen 03.12.1995 USA RICHARDS Evie 11.03.1997 GBR SWARTZ Emma 18.02.1997 USA

Feature photo: © 2017 Brett Rothmeyer