At the end of each season, the MPCC publishes figures showing the wildcards which are awarded in World Tour races. The aim of our movement, and has been since our foundation, is to reach the 100% target, a sign that most of the teams at Pro Team level, which are candidates for participation in top-level races, are also committed to cycling that is as credible as possible.
In 2024, 199 invitations have been allocated for the 35 competitions that bring together the elite of our sport : the three « grands tours » (Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, Vuelta a España), the big classics (Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Il Lombardia) as well as other major stage races (Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, the Critérium du Dauphiné, the Tour of Switzerland). Of this total, 183 wildcards were finally awarded to MPCC member teams, or 92% of the invitations. We can consider this percentage is up to 95% due to the participation of national teams in some of the races. This figure is slightly up on 2023 thanks to the Tudor Pro Cycling Team, in June 2023.
In fact, five Pro Teams have joined us in just over 2 years : Uno-X Mobility, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, Corratec – Vini Fantini, Tudor and Unibet Tietema Rockets, just a few weeks ago. With this new membership, the MPCC is delighted with the current momentum and hopes that, in mid term, the target of « 100% MPCC » wildcards will be achieved.
We would like to remind the requirement imposed by Amaury Sport Organisation to invite only teams that are in line with our values and members of our movement, and to praise the efforts made by RCS Sport, another major race organiser. The MPCC is now calling the World Tour teams that are not yet in our ranks to join us, to the Continental men’s teams, which are still too few with us and whose challenges are of the utmost concern to us, and to the women’s teams, whose strong development we monitor. One day, we hope that all the teams taking part in the biggest events will race under the MPCC banner.