2022 UAE Tour: team entry list announced
Seventeen UCI WorldTeams and three UCI ProTeams will race the UAE Tour,
starting on 20 February
UAE Team Emirates were awarded Best Team of the 2021 UAE Tour
United Arab Emirates, 7 February 2022 - The UAE Tour race organisers, Abu Dhabi Sports Council are pleased to announce the twenty teams set to race the fourth edition of the one and only WorldTour race in the Middle East. Seventeen UCI WorldTeams will be joined by three UCI ProTeams on the start line of the race, which will run from 20 to 26 February across seven stages.
The tour will be the first WorldTour race on the 2022 UCI calendar and has attracted a host of world class professional teams, including UAE Team Emirates, INEOS Grenadiers and Jumbo Visma. Among the three UCI ProTeams who have earned a race invitation is Alpecin-Fenix - the highest ranked ProTeam of both 2021 and 2020, returning for a second year in a row.
The full list of confirmed teams is as follows:
UCI WorldTeams
- AG2R CITROEN TEAM
- ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM
- BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS
- BORA - HANSGROHE
- EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST
- GROUPAMA - FDJ
- INEOS GRENADIERS
- INTERMARCHÉ - WANTY - GOBERT MATÉRIAUX
- ISRAEL PREMIER TECH
- JUMBO-VISMA
- LOTTO SOUDAL
- MOVISTAR TEAM
- QUICK-STEP ALPHA VINYL TEAM
- TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE - JAYCO
- TEAM DSM
- TREK - SEGAFREDO
- UAE TEAM EMIRATES
UCI ProTeams
- ALPECIN FENIX
- BARDIANI CSF FAIZANÈ
- GAZPROM-RUSVELO
A full provisional entry list of riders will be announced in due course. To find out more about the UAE Tour, including details of the official race route, jerseys and sponsors, visit www.theuaetour.com.
