Exciting 12-Race Calendar Unveiled for 2025-2026 Cyclocross International Cup with Seven Belgian Dates and a Return to Sardinia

The 2025-2026 UCI Cyclocross International Cup calendar will mirror a 12-race collection for a 2d season, with a go back to Koksijde and a 2d check out at a brand new spherical in Sardinia after the Italian race used to be cancelled because of excessive climate closing December. 

In conjunction with Flanders Classics, the UCI showed that races in Bensaçon and Dublin won’t go back, and the prevent in Hulst used to be vacated for the Dutch town to host the Cyclocross International Championships, January 30-February 1, 2026. 

The calendar will start at the closing two weekends of November at Tabor, Czechia, a 16-time International Cup host which closing noticed the collection in 2022, and Flamanville, France, which has hosted a International Cup two times prior to. 

A go back to the coastal the town of Cabras, Italy is scheduled for December 7 marks the 3rd spherical. Additionally slotted in the similar spot closing 12 months, a hurricane with heavy rainfall and robust winds of greater than 90 kph led to the UCI and race organisers to cancel the ones races simply hours prior to the elite girls had been to compete.

Seven of the International Cup races can be held in Belgium, together with Namur on December 14, resulting in a weekend doubleheader on December 20-12 in Antwerp and Koksijde, the latter difficult riders with the huge sand dunes that experience observed a three-year absence. A trio of conventional Belgian occasions stretch via ‘kerstperiode’ and the beginning of the brand new 12 months – Gavere, Dendermonde and Zonhoven. 

Benidorm, Spain, repeats for a mid-January contest, with the season concluding with a Maasmechelan and Hoogerheide ultimate weekend prior to the International Championships, set for Hulst. 

Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) received his first general International Cup identify for elite males, whilst Lucinda Logo (Baloise-Glowi) earned the 3rd elite girls’s general identify in her occupation. 

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For the 2024-2025 cyclocross season, the UCI instituted a brand new ‘secure standing’ for a restricted collection of occasions to make sure most sensible riders would focal point on International Cups over collection, which this previous 12 months incorporated Superprestige, X2O Trophee, Actual Go and Coupe de France. Rounds in Dublin, Sardinia, Besançon and Benidorm gained this standing closing season.

At this early date, the UCI control committee had now not decided choices for the impending season, which an amended rule closing March mentioned “will not concern more than half of the rounds” of the International Cup calendar.

Cyclocross International Cup 2025-2026 scheduleRound 1 – Sunday, November 23, Tabor, CzechiaRound 2 – Sunday, November 30, Flamanville, FranceRound 3 – Sunday, December 7, Cabras, ItalyRound 4 – Sunday, December 14, Namur, BelgiumRound 5 – Saturday, December 20, Antwerpen, BelgiumRound 6 – Sunday, December 21, Koksijde, BelgiumRound 7 – Friday, December 26, Gavere, BelgiumRound 8 – Sunday, December 28, Dendermonde, BelgiumRound 9 – Sunday, January 4, Zonhoven, BelgiumRound 10 – Sunday, January 18, Benidorm, SpainRound 11 – Saturday, January 24, Maasmechelen, BelgiumRound 12 – Sunday, January 25, Hoogerheide, Netherlands