After the Cavendish deal: All official transfers of the top teams for the 2023 season

Top transfers in cycling

Numerous top transfers have been finalised for the 2023 season, such as that of Mark Cavendish (from Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl to Astana Qazaqstan Team), Ruben Guerreiro, Fernando Gaviria (both to Movistar), Wilco Kelderman, Paris-Roubaix winner Dylan van Baarle (both now riding for Jumbo-Visma), Lukas Pöstlberger (to Jayco-AlUla) and Richard Carapaz (to EF Education EasyPost). A lot has also happened in women's cycling. Liane Lippert, for example, now rides for Movistar.

Here is an overview of all the teams competing in the 2023 World Tour and their personal details. The German riders are highlighted in bold.

UCI World Tour: licences awarded for 2023 - these teams are involved

Departures & new additions to the World Tour teams*

AG2R-CITROËN TEAM

Additions

• Alex Baudin (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
• Bastien Tronchon (AG2R Citröen U23 Team)
• Pierre Gautherat (SCO Dijon - Team Materiel - Velo.com)
• Franck Bonnamour (B&B Hotels-KTM)

Departures

• Clement Champoussin (Arkea-Samsic)
• Bob Jungels (Bora-Hansgrohe)
• Lilian Calmejane (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
• Gijs Van Hoecke (Human Powered Health)
• Anthony Julien (end of career)

Alpecin-Deceuninck

Additions

• Sören Kragh Andersen (Team DSM)
• Ramon Sinkeldam (Groupama-FDJ)
• Quinten Hermans (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert)
• Kaden Groves (BikeExchange-Jayco)
• Nicola Conci (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development Team)
• Robbie Ghys (Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
• Jensen Plowright (Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ)
• Jason Osborne (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development Team)

Departures

• Tim Merlier (Soudal - Quick Step)
• Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB)
• Floris De Tier (Bingoal WB)
• Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates)
• Sjoerd Bax (UAE Team Emirates)
• David van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development Team)
• Julien Vermote
• Scott Thwaites (end of career)
• Edward Anderson

Arkea-Samsic

Additions

• Luca Mozzato (B&B Hotels-KTM)
• Clement Champoussin (AG2R-CITROËN TEAM)
• Cristian Rodriguez (TotalEnergies)
• Jenthe Biermans (Israel-Premier Tech)
• David Dekker (Jumbo-Visma)
• Andrii Ponomar (Drone Hopper - Androni Giocattoli)
• Mathis Le Berre (Cotes d'Armor-Marie Morin-U)
• Ewen Costiou (Cotes d'Armor-Marie Morin-U)

Departures

• Romain Hardy (UC Briochine - Bleu Mercure)
• Winner Anacona (Colombia Pacto por el Deporte)
• Dayer Quintana (Colombia Pacto por el Deporte)
• Connor Swift (Ineos Grenadiers)
• Christophe Noppe (Cofidis)
• Miguel Eduardo Flores (GW Shimano-Sidermec)
• Markus Pajur (Tartu2024 Cycling Team)
• Nairo Quintana
• Benjamin Declercq (end of career)

Astana Qazaqstan Team

Additions

• Luis Leon Sanchez (Bahrain-Victorious)
• Martin Laas (Bora-Hansgrohe)
• Igor Chzhan (Almaty Cycling Team)
• Gleb Syritsa (previously stagiaire with Astana Qazaqstan Team)
• Gianmarco Garofoli (Astana Qazaqstan Development Team)
• Mark Cavendish (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl)
• Cees Bol (Team DSM)

Departures

• Vincenzo Nibali (end of career)
• Valerio Conti (Team Corratec)
• Stefan de Bod (EF Education EasyPost)
• Miguel Angel Lopez (Team Medellin - EPM)
• Artyom Zakharov (Astana Qazaqstan Development Team)

Bahrain-Victorious

Additions

• Fran Miholjevic (Cyclin Team Friuli ASD)
• Cameron Scott (ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast)
• Rainer Kepplinger (Hrinkow Advarics Cycleang)
• Andrea Pasqualon (Intermarche- Wanty-Gobert)
• Dusan Rajovic (Team Corratec)
• Nikias Arndt (Team DSM)
• Sergio Tu (Cycling Team Friuli ASD)

Departures

• Domen Novak (UAE Team Emirates)
• Jan Tratnik (Jumbo-Visma)
• Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana Qazaqstan Team)
• Chun Kai Feng (Utsunomiya Blitzen)
• Sonny Colbrelli (end of career)
• Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech)

Bora-Hansgrohe

Additions

• Bob Jungels (AG2R-CITROËN TEAM)
• Nico Denz (Team DSM)
• Florian Lipowitz (Tirol KTM Cycling Team)
• Victor Koretzky (B&B Hotels-KTM)

The details on the signing of Bob Jungels

• More information on the signing of Nico Denz
• Anton Palzer extends contract with Bora-Hansgrohe
• More information on the Koretzky transfer

Departures

• Felix Großschartner (UAE Team Emirates)
• Wilco Kelderman (Jumbo-Visma)
• Lukas Pöstlberger (Jayco-AlUla)
• Martin Laas (Astana Qazaqstan Team)

Cofidis

Additions

• Jonathan Lastra (Caja Rural)
• Axel Mariault (Team U Nantes Atlantique)
• Christophe Noppe (Arkea-Samsic)
• Harrison Wood (AVC Aix-en-Provence)

Departures

• Szymon Sajnok (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Tom Bohli (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
• Davide Villella (end of career)
• Sander Armee (end of career)
• Kenneth Vanbilsen (end of career)

EF Education EasyPost

Additions

• Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) - More information on the Carapaz transfer
• Andrey Amador (Ineos Grenadiers)
• Mikkel Frölich Honore (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl)
• Stefan de Bod (Astana Qazaqstan Team)

Departures

• Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar)
• Michael Valgren (EF Education-NIPPO Development Team)
• Daniel Arroyave (Equipe Continental Orgullo Paisa)
• Sebastian Langeveld (end of career)
• Hideto Nakane (end of career)
• Alex Howes (end of career)
• Lachlan Morton

Groupama-FDJ

Additions

• Reuben Thompson (Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ)
• Lorenzo Germani (Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ)
• Lenny Martinez (Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ)
• Romain Gregoire (Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ)
• Enzo Paleni (Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ)
• Laurence Pithie (Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ)
• Samuel Watson (Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ)

Departures

• Jacopo Guarnieri (Lotto-Dstny)
• Attila Valter (Jumbo-Visma)
• Anthony Roux (end of career)
• Antoine Duchesne (end of career)
• Matteo Badilatti (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Tobias Ludvigsson (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Ramon Sinkeldam (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Sebastien Reichenbach (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)

Ineos Grenadiers

Additions

• Leo Hayter (Hagens Berman Axeon)
• Connor Swift (Arkea-Samsic)
• Thymen Arensman (Team DSM)
• Joshua Tarling
• Michael Leonard

Ineos Grenadiers signs Ferrand-Prevot

Departures

• Richie Porte (End of career)
• Eddie Dunbar (Jayco-AlUla)
• Dylan van Baarle (Jumbo-Visma)
• Richard Carapaz (EF Education EasyPost)
• Andrey Amador (EF Education EasyPost)
• Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates)

Intermarche-Circus-Wanty

Additions

• Madis Mihkels (Team Ampler - Tartu2024)
• Dries De Pooter (Hagens Berman Axeon)
• Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma)
• Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates)
• Laurenz Rex (Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB)
• Tom Paquot (Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB)
• Arne Marit (Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
• Rune Herregodts (Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise)
• Dion Smith (BikeExchange-Jayco)
• Lilian Calmejane (AG2R-CITROËN TEAM)
• Niccolo Bonifazio (TotalEnergies)

Departures

• Dimitri Claeys (end of career)
• Kevin Van Melsen (end of career)
• Jan Bakelants (end of career)
• Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
• Quinten Hermans (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Jan Hirt (Soudal - Quick Step)
• Andrea Pasqualon (Bahrain-Victorious)
• Barnabas Peak (Human Powered Health)
• Theo Delacroix (St Michel Auber 93)
• Tom Devriendt (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Corne van Kessel (Team Deschacht - Group Hens - Containers Maers)
• Domenico Pozzovivo

Jayco-AlUla

Additions

• Blake Quick (Trinity Racing)
• Rudy Porter (Trinity Racing)
• Eddie Dunbar (Ineos Grenadiers)
• Chris Harper (Jumbo-Visma)
• Filippo Zana (Bardiani-CSF-Faizane)
• Felix Engelhardt (Tirol KTM Cycling Team)
• Welay Hagos Berhe (EF Education-NIPPO Development Team)
• Zdenek Stybar (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl)
• Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe)
• Alessandro De Marchi (Israel-Premier Tech)

Departures

• Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Sam Bewley (end of career)
• Cameron Meyer (end of career)
• Dion Smith (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
• Tanel Kangert (end of career)
• Alex Edmondson (Team DSM)
• Jack Bauer (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Damien Howson (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Alexander Konychev (Team Corratec)
• Nick Schultz (Israel-Premier Tech)

Jumbo-Visma

Additions

• Dylan van Baarle (Ineos Grenadiers)
• Wilco Kelderman (Bora-Hansgrohe)
• Attila Valter (Groupama-FDJ)
• Thomas Gloag (Trinity Racing)
• Jan Tratnik (Bahrain-Victorious)

Departures

• Tom Dumoulin (end of career)
• Mike Teunissen (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
• Chris Harper (Jayco-AlUla)
• Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto-Dstny)
• David Dekker (Arkea-Samsic)

Movistar

Additions

• Ruben Guerreiro (EF Education EasyPost)
• Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates)
• Ivan Romeo (Hagens Berman Axeon)

Departures

• Alejandro Valverde (end of career)
• Inigo Elosegui (Equipo Kern Pharma)

Soudal - Quick Step

Additions

• Casper Pedersen (Team DSM)
• Jan Hirt (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert)
• Tim Merlier (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

Departures

• Iljo Keisse (end of career)
• Stijn Steels (end of career)
• Zdenek Stybar (Jayco-AlUla)
• Mikkel Frölich Honore (EF Education EasyPost)
• Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan Team)

Team DSM

Additions

• Max Poole (Development Team DSM)
• Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal)
• Patrick Bevin (Israel-Premier Tech)
• Alex Edmondson (BikeExchange-Jayco)
• Sean Flynn (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
• Matthew Dinham (Team BridgeLane)
• Lorenzo Milesi (Development Team DSM)
• Tobias Lund Andresen (Development Team DSM)
• Oscar Onley (Development Team DSM)

Departures

• Sören Kragh Andersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Casper Pedersen (Soudal - Quick-Step)
• Nikias Arndt (Bahrain-Victorious)
• Nico Denz (Bora-Hansgrohe)
• Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers)
• Joris Nieuwenhuis (Baloise-Trek Lions)
• Mark Donovan (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Asbjörn Kragh Andersen (end of career)
• Cees Bol (Astana Qazaqstan Team)

Trek-Segafredo

Additions

• Thibau Nys (Baloise - Trek Lions)
• Mathias Vacek (previously stagiaire at Trek-Segafredo)
• Natnael Tesfatsion (Drone Hopper - Androni Giocattoli)

Departures

• Jakob Egholm (Restaurant Suri - Carl Ras)
• Gianluca Brambilla (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Matteo Moschetti (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
• Simon Pellaud (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
• Alexander Kamp (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)

UAE Team Emirates

Additions

• Tim Wellens (Lotto Soudal)
• Felix Großschartner (Bora-Hansgrohe)
• Domen Novak (Bahrain-Victorious)
• Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers)
• Sjoerd Bax (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
• Michael Vink (Bolton Equities Black Spoke Pro Cycling)
• Jay Vine (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

Departures

• Rui Costa (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
• Fernando Gaviria (Movistar)
• Alexys Brunel (Uni Sports Lamentinois)
• Andres Camilo Ardila (Burgos-BH)
• Joel Sutter (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
• Maximiliano Richeze
• Yousif Mirza (end of career)
• Oliviero Troia

Women's cycling: UCI Women's WorldTour

There has also been a lot of shuffling in women's cycling. Here is an overview of all the teams in the UCI Women's World Tour for the 2023 season.

Canyon//SRAM Racing

Additions

• Agnieszka Skalniak-Sojka (ATOM Deweloper Posciellux.pl Wroclaw)
• Maike van der Duin (Le Col - Wahoo)
• Alice Towers (Le Col - Wahoo)
• Ricarda Bauernfeind (Canyon//SRAM Generation)
• Antonia Niedermeier (Canyon//SRAM Generation)
• Alex Morrice

Departures

• Alena Amialiusik (UAE Team ADQ)
• Lisa Klein (Trek-Segafredo)
• Alice Barnes (Human Powered Health)
• Ella Harris (Lifeplus - Wahoo)
• Mikayla Harvey (UAE Team ADQ)
• Maud Oudeman (Team Jumbo-Visma)

EF Education-TIBCO-SVB

Additions

• Zoe Bäckstedt
• Alison Jackson (Liv Racing Xstra)
• Georgia Williams (Team BikeExchange-Jayco)

Departures

• Tanja Erath (end of career)
• Emily Newsom (ROXO Racing)

FDJ-Suez

Additions

• Loes Adegeest (IBCT)
• Gladys Verhulst (Le Col - Wahoo)

Departures

• Brodie Chapman (Trek-Segafredo)

Fenix-Deceuninck

Additions

• Greta Marturano (Top Girls Fassa Bortolo)
• Maria Martins (Le Col - Wahoo)
• Evy Kuijpers (Human Powered Health)
• Sophie Wright (UAE Team ADQ)
• Cecilia van Zuthem
• Petra Stiasny (Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad)
• Carina Schrempf

Departures

• Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance - Soudal Quick-Step)
• Laura Süßemilch (Fenix-Deceuninck Continental)
• Imogen Cotter (Fenix-Deceuninck Continental)
• Manon Bakker (Fenix-Deceuninck Continental)
• Anna Kay (Fenix-Deceuninck Continental)
• Aniek van Alphen (Fenix-Deceuninck Continental)
• Marion Norbert Riberolle (Fenix-Deceuninck Continental)
• Kiona Crabbe

Human Powered Health

Additions

• Daria Pikulik (ATOM Deweloper Posciellux.pl Wroclaw)
• Alice Barnes (Canyon//SRAM Racing)
• Marjolein van't Geloof (Le Col - Wahoo)
• Jesse Vandenbulcke (Le Col - Wahoo)

Departures

• Evy Kuijpers (Fenix-Deceuninck)

Israel Premier Tech Roland

Additions

• Thi That Nguyen
• Lara Vieceli (Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling)
• Nathalie Eklund (Massi - Tactic Women Team)
• Elena Pirrone (Valcar-Travel & Service)
• Fien Delbaere (Multum Accountants Ladies Cycling Team)
• Silvia Magri (Born To Win G20 Ambedo)
• Claire Steels (Sopela Women's Team)
• Mia Griffin (IBCT)
• Sofia Collinelli (Aromitalia - Basso Bikes -Vaiano)
• Fariba Hashimi (Valcar-Travel & Service)
• Anna Kiesenhofer

Departures

• Olga Zabelinskaya (Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team)
• Ines Cantera (Laboral Kutxa Fundacion Euskadi)
• Aline Seitz (Israel Premier Tech Roland Development)
• Lea Stern (Team Komugi - La Fabrique)
• Caroline Chauveau (Israel Premier Tech Roland Development)
• Petra Stiasny (Fenix-Deceuninck)
• Anna Gabrielle Traxler (Team Komugi - La Fabrique)
• Rotem Gafinovitz

Liv Racing TeqFind

Additions

• Mavi Garcia (UAE Team ADQ)
• Caroline Andersson (Team Coop - Hitec Products)

Departures

• Alison Jackson (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB)

Movistar Team

Additions

• Liane Lippert (Team DSM)
• Floortje Mackaij (Team DSM)

Departures

• Barbara Guarischi (Team SD Worx)

Team Jayco-AlUla

Additions

• Letizia Paternoster (Trek-Segafredo)
• Georgie Howe
• Amber godfather
• Alyssa Polites
• Ingvild Gaskjenn (Team Coop - Hitec Products)

Departures

• Amanda Spratt (Trek-Segafredo)
• Georgia Williams (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB)
• Arianna Fidanza (Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling)

Team DSM

Additions

• Daniek Hengeveld (GT Krush Tunap Pro Cycling)
• Anna van der Meiden
• Nienke Vinke
• Eglantine Rayer
• Eleonora Ciabocco
• Maeve Plouffe
• Becky Storrie (CAMS-Basso)

Departures

• Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx)
• Liane Lippert (Movistar Team)
• Leah Kirchmann (Denver Disruptors)
• Floortje Mackaij (Movistar Team)

Team Jumbo-Visma

Additions

• Eva van Agt (Le Col - Wahoo)
• Kim Cadzow (Torelli - Cayman Islands - Scimitar)
• Maud Oudeman (Canyon//SRAM Racing)
• Rosita Reijnhout
• Fem van Empel
• Nienke Veenhoven

Departures

• Anouska Koster (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
• Romy Kasper (AG Insurance - Soudal Quick-Step)
• Aafke Soet (end of career)
• Jip van den Bos

Team SD Worx

Additions

• Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM)
• Femke Markus (Parkhotel Valkenburg)
• Mischa Bredewold (Parkhotel Valkenburg)
• Barbara Guarischi (Movistar Team)
• Marie Schreiber

Departures

• Ashleigh Moolman (AG Insurance - Soudal Quick-Step)
• Roxane Fournier (St Michel - Mavic - Auber93 WE)
• Amy Pieters

Trek-Segafredo

Additions

• Amanda Spratt (Team BikeExchange-Jayco)
• Gala Realini (Isolmant-Premac-Vittoria)
• Lisa Klein (Canyon//SRAM Racing)
• Brodie Chapman (FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope)
• Ilaria Sanguineti (Valcar-Travel & Service)

Departures

• Letizia Paternoster (Team Jayco-AlUla)
• Amalie Dideriksen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
• Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Zaaf Cycling Team)
• Chloe Hosking
• Leah Thomas

UAE Team ADQ

Additions

• Silvia Persico (Valcar-Travel & Service)
• Mikayla Harvey (Canyon//SRAM Racing)
• Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini (Valcar-Travel & Service)
• Chiara Consonni (Valcar-Travel & Service)
• Olivia Baril (Valcar-Travel & Service)
• Alena Amialiusik (Canyon//SRAM Racing)
• Elizabeth Holden (Le Col - Wahoo)
• Karolina Kumiega (Valcar-Travel & Service)

Departures

• Mavi Garcia (Liv Racing TeqFind)
• Maaike Boogaard (AG Insurance - Soudal Quick-Step)
• Sophie Wright (Fenix-Deceuninck)
• Alessia Patuelli (Bepink)
• Urska Pintar (BTC City Ljubljana Scott)
• Maria Novolodskaia (Lifeplus Wahoo)
• Linda Zanetti (UAE Development Team)

Uno-X Pro Cycling Team

Additions

• Amalie Dideriksen (Trek-Segafredo)
• Anouska Koster (Team Jumbo-Visma)
• Maria Giulia Confalonieri (Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling)

Departures

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*Source: ProCyclingStats.com