Here the the UCI points tables for the women and like the men’s tables, their tucked inside a PDF on the UCI’s website so this blog post isn’t a gripping read but just puts all the scales on one page for reference.
The women’s rankings system changes for 2026 and copies the same scales as the men but with fewer races on the calendar and stage races that often have shorter durations, there are less points on offer during the season.
The table below is for World Tour races, if it’s a stage race then it’s for the final overall classification. Note the unusual numbers, 1,300 points for the Tour de France win for example rather than, say a round 1000 and then everything scaled proportionately to this.
Next comes the points per stage in the World Tour stage races, as you can see a Tour de France stage is 210 points and points in the major tours go down to 15th each day and 10th for the other stage races.
Next you can see points on offer for final place in the secondary competitions of a major tour, namely the mountains and points competitions. Even if one rider has run away with the competition others will find incentives to keep on scoring points.
Next comes a daily award for leading a World Tour stage race.
Next come all the races outside of the World Tour. Again note these are for the GC in stage races or a one-day race, so winning two one-day races is worth more than winning a two-day stage race in the same category.
The next two tables below shows the points on offer for stages in non-World Tour races and the daily points for leading the race too. As with the men’s tables we have similar clumsy formatting which suggests these tables probably aren’t meant to be for public consumption.
Below are the national championships, split into A and B groups, where A is defined as a nation that started at least one rider in the previous Women’s Elite world championship road race.
Now comes the Continental Championships, think the European championships for the best example but it can be the Asian Games too.
Now for the Worlds and Olympics, big events but the UCI is keen to big them up even more and they are the most lucrative one day races on the calendar in terms of points, 100 more than a Monument classic:
For the last of the tables, here’s the mixed relay time trial at the World Championships which the UCI is keen on promoting, it’s 300 points for the winning team but this is divided by the three women, so 100 points each (of course the men get 100 each too). Diving the points haul by three is why you might see some riders with a score featuring a decimal place at the end of the year.
How To Lose Points
Riders can lose points too. The UCI rules include penalties for bad behaviour and some come with points deductions. They concern cheating like taking short-cuts, using sidewalks, ignoring level-crossing red lights, littering and other misdemeanours, right down to failing to sign on for the day’s racing or show up for the post-race press conference if invited. Any team manager sweating about winning points needs to also encourage riders not to lose them. UCI points are not docked automatically but it is within the scope of many sanctions, the example above comes from the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Where to find them
Go to uci.org > “Regulations” link at the top of the page > Scroll down to “Part II – Road Races” > open the big Part II – Road Races PDF > Scroll to Chapter X in the document.
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The scale is new for 2026 and aligns with the men’s points, so the same number of points for the Tour de France whether men or women. So it’s equal in arithmetic but don’t compare men and women for their points haul. Two examples: Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard have enjoyed long spells in the race lead at the Giro, Tour and Vuelta, they can have 15 days of 20 or 25 points for being the overall leader each day; the likes of Demi Vollering or Pauline Ferrand-Prévot would be dominant if they led their races for five days. Above all the calendars are different, there are many more opportunities for men’s teams to score throughout the year.
- The Men’s UCI points tables are here
The banner image would have been better if you had one with a teammate celebrating and a -25 on them.
It’s interesting to note the increasing inclusion of sponsors in the list of race names at the top of the columns. While I agree with the general principle of respecting the sponsors by using the full title, use of a neutral name seems more appropriate for inclusion in the sporting regulations.
The only really important thing for supporters is promotion / relegation. Is there a similiar race for promotion in the women’s field.
strangely enough i could see points being more important in the ladies field as a high position may be good for attracting sponsors.
Yes, the system is functionally the same as the men’s system.
If there are more applications that meet all requirements than the 15 positions available, the sporting rankings are used as a tie breaker.
I find it a bit sad that the “male” races, when they started a female category, went to the top of the point-scoring categories immediately. Often at the expense of well-established and prestigious races for females. A good example of this is the Trofeo Alfredo Binda immediately being surpassed by Milano-San Remo. The organisers of the Trofeo Alfredo Binda had put in an enourmous amount of work over many years to build this race into an important race on the women’s calendar (when no-one else much cared), only to get gazumpted after all their hard work.
Similar feelings, and same for Giro Donne, although “at least” it’s a different organisation (and it has been a series of different ones through the years).
It looks like that what women cycling was able to build on its own even in the most difficult circumstances and as its own proper history is going to go down the drain or down a step at the very least for the sake of literal equality.
I guess that’s the way to go, simplification and homologation in order to gain access to money and acceptation. I’m afraid that from a strategic point of view they might be right at least in the middle term and probably in the long one too, given that maybe (just maybe, and keep your fingers well crossed) we’ve already gone over that tipping point when the reactionary wave won’t be able to take every advance back as they did at the beginning of this century.
The Emakumeen Bira is now Itzulia Women? If so, it’s probably even more shocking to see it along with Guangxi or Copnhagen Sprint, below Romandie.
It would have been fine or decent in order to create a generally common point system to take into account also the value or meaning of the women version. But, no, that’s not how it works… men’s versions set the framework, for women you just have to copy and paste even when it makes even less sense.