The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) today publishes its 2025 Annual Report, along with the year’s financial statements. The document is available on the UCI website.
Approved by the UCI Management Committee, the 2025 UCI Annual Report looks back on the sporting and institutional highlights of a year that was marked by the Federation's 125th anniversary.
The 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali (Rwanda) are among the standout moments of the period. The first UCI World Championships in the discipline to be held on the African continent were met with unanimous acclaim: spectacular racing, enormous crowds lining the roads, and very high viewership around the world. The 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Valais (Switzerland) also left their mark, with a programme bringing together all the major formats of the discipline across six venues, confirming the relevance of cycling events that unite several specialities. Their success bodes very well with less than two years to go before the 2027 UCI Cycling World Championships in Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc (France), which will bring together 20 separate UCI World Championships.
The UCI continued its efforts on rider safety, in line with the objectives of its Agenda 2030 and the recommendations of SafeR, the entity dedicated to the safety of professional road competitions. New measures were introduced, including a yellow card system designed to change the behaviour of those involved at race level, in both men's and women's events.
When it comes to integrity, the UCI took a decisive step in the independence of its anti-doping programme by transferring results management to the International Testing Agency (ITA), to which it had had already entrusted its operational activities in 2021.
The development and solidarity activities carried out by the UCI World Cycling Centre (WCC) – the UCI's high-performance training and education centre – are also highlighted in the report. In 2025, two new UCI WCC Development Satellites were inaugurated: one in Africa (in Rwanda) and one in Asia (in Malaysia).
On the institutional front, 2025 was marked by the re-election of David Lappartient as UCI President for a new four-year term, the election of new Management Committee members, and the subsequent renewal of all the International Federation's commissions, including the Athletes' Commission.
In keeping with its transparency policy, the UCI publishes the audited consolidated financial statements of the UCI and the UCI WCC for 2025, prepared in accordance with Swiss accounting standards (Swiss GAAP RPC). The annual result shows a very modest net loss of CHF 1.5 million. It should be recalled that the UCI's financial position is assessed over a four-year cycle, as Olympic revenues are recorded only in the year of the Games and are intended to fund development expenditure over the following four years — meaning that non-Olympic years naturally show operating losses. The 2025 result proved significantly better than expected, thanks to prudent cost management and strong performance of the investment portfolio. The UCI's non-development activities remain in surplus, reflecting the strength of the Federation's operational management. Its reserves remain at a high level, well above the minimum threshold of CHF 20 million set in 2020, enabling the UCI to continue implementing its Agenda 2030 with confidence and to seize new strategic opportunities.
The UCI 2025 Annual Report also presents a wide range of information about the UCI and its activities: an overview of the disciplines governed by the Federation, the composition of the governing bodies, commissions and judicial bodies, the list of the 206 affiliated National Federations, as well as the results and rankings from all the season’s UCI competitions.
UCI President David Lappartient said: "In 2025, still within the framework of our Agenda 2030 and in collaboration with our Continental Confederations, our National Federations and all our stakeholders, we made substantial progress in every area of our sport, as this Annual Report demonstrates. I am particularly proud of the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali: every other continent had hosted our flagship World Championships, and it was only right, given the growth of cycling in Africa, that this continent should in turn host the event. The challenge was met with remarkable success. Other exciting projects await us, and our Federation is in an optimal position to carry them through."
UCI Director General Amina Lanaya said: "We can look back very positively on 2025, whether in terms of events, international development, sustainability, gender equity, inclusivity or governance. The management of our activities has remained prudent, enabling us to strengthen our financial capacity while giving us the means to invest in key areas for the cycling of tomorrow."
2025 UCI Annual Report