All the 2025 WorldTour kits ranked from worst to first

The 2025 season is on the horizon and with this we have a flood of new kits to get familiar with. Throughout December and early January, teams on the WorldTour have unveiled their new jerseys in preparation for the Town Down Under.

Today, we’ll be placing a critical eye on these jerseys, casting our brutal judgment on the fresh designs, from Arkéa B&B-Hotels to UAE Team ADQ. We won’t hold back, giving our score out of ten based on how they stack up in our opinion.

Worst

26. Intermarché – Wanty

It’s tough being an Intermarché jersey designer. Since their promotion to the WorldTour in 2021, the squad have resigned their heavily fluorescent jersey at the beginning of each season. They’ve also picked up a habit of releasing a special edition kit for the Giro d’Italia and sometimes the Tour de France. However, I have a feeling they might have reached the bottom of the barrel in 2025.

Looking past the overstimulating barrage of sponsor names and logos, the jersey has been completely reworked for 2025. Notably, Intermarché’s logo has now split into two parts, separating the ‘Inter’ from the ‘Marché’. To pair with the red ‘Marché’, the right sleeve has turned red.

Obviously, fluorescent yellow pairs with red – or so the designer was told. These bright flashes appear on the left sleeve, providing some continuity with previous kits. However, there’s another colour to add to this nauseating palette: navy blue. The colour of the darker bib shorts bleeds onto the bottom third of the jersey, which, to its credit, does help to frame the countless sponsor logos on the chest of the kit. This blue appears out of nowhere on the back of the jersey, however, and on a panel connecting the collar to the sleeves. It looks very strange given that the other sleeve is entirely one colour.

I’m baffled by this one.

Note: Deary me

Score: 1/10

25. Cofidis

Cofidis have hardly been at the cutting edge of cycling fashion over the past couple of years. There’s only so much you can do with red and white I guess. Well, that colour binary has been broken for the 2025 season courtesy of this visually arresting kit.

That’s where the compliments end, however. This kit is an assault on the senses, mixing red with burgundy and yellow. This blend is barbaric in all honesty. The yellow sleeves are a criminal addition to the rather tasteful blend of burgundy and red shown on the main body of the kit. Overall, it looks very disjointed, resembling a jersey designed by someone on an online Pro Cycling Manager forum during the early 2010s.

To add to the visual mismatch, the team’s helmets are white and the bikes will also be white. There’s a lack of colour continuity here – although I’m somewhat glad they haven’t mixed burgundy with yellow on all equipment fronts.

Note: Ignorance of the colour wheel

Score: 2/10

24. Ceratizit-WNT

I’ll be honest, I’ve never liked the Ceratizit kit. Sadly for me, it hasn’t received many changes over the past couple of years. 

This theme stretches into 2025 I’m afraid. The blue and red is here to stay for another twelve months, leaving many underhwelmed.

It’s likely that Ceratizit will be fighting for WorldTour survival given the state of the current UCI rankings. After a contractual loophole triggered by the late submission of team documentation, some riders also jumped ship in the autumn, leaving the German team with a threadbare roster.

Notes: Inoffesive snoozefest

Score: 2/10

23. Fenix-Deceuninck

They say good things come in threes. I may have to dispute this claim after looking at Fenix-Deceuninck’s three 2025 jerseys.

It’s one for the fickle. There are three hues to choose from: military green, salmon and navy. Apart from the colours, there’s not much to write home about. Some might call this classic, but I call this boring.

Even the stripes used in the 2024 jersey have gone missing, leaving this jersey a desert of creativity.

Notes: It’s giving…Azerbaijan

Score: 2/10

22. Bahrain Victorious

There’s little to report on Bahrain Victorious’s new jersey.

Whoever told the team that their 2024 kit was great was clearly lying to them. After ditching the former red and orange geometric effect at the end of 2023, the team opted for a stripped-back approach focussing on white. This said, they still kept the turquoise accents that at least helped set them apart from the rest.

The body of the jersey is bare of much visual intrigue apart from a nonsensical squiggle and turquoise rhombus. There are no new sponsors or logos to discuss either. The silence is deafening.

Notes: Please try harder

Score: 3/10

At least you tried

21. UAE Team Emirates XRG

After another season spent at the top of the UCI rankings, UAE Team Emirates XRG have decided to change their look for 2025. There appears to be an oil spill on the new jersey, however. Perhaps this is a very on-the-nose nod to the team’s petrol-rich state backers now supported by the state-owned renewable investment fund XRG.

This jersey is a step down from last year, I’ll say. The oily effect meets a gruesome and abrupt end on the shoulders with little consideration for the sleeves. It looks OK when the riders have their hands on their hips for the off-the-bike photos, but it looks a bit odd when the riders are crouched over the handlebars.

The jackets and long-sleeved jerseys also look a bit strange with a smokey grey effect taking hold towards the cuffs. It almost looks like they’ve faded while drying outside on a washing line.

Notes: Luckily Pogačar will be in the rainbow jersey all year

Score: 4/10

20. Uno X Mobility

I’m going to let you in on a secret: I’ve never liked an Uno X kit. Now that’s out in the open, let’s discuss the slightly altered kit that the men’s and women’s teams will be sporting in 2025.

The latest iteration of this ketchup and mustard-looking shirt has received a slight change ahead of the new season. There’s now a geometric effect placed on the red part of the jersey. This helps to give it a little pizzazz, however, I do find the whole thing a little uninspiring.

Despite its eye-catching look, this is just a tad boring for my liking. The garish Rema 1000 logo remains on the arms and the shorts remain just as plain as they were before.

Notes: I am neither underwhelmed nor overwhelmed

Score: 4/10

19. Lidl-Trek

After changing name in the summer of 2023, Lidl-Trek swapped out their light look for a kit resembling a court jester. This identity was cultivated quickly, adopting a playful character, colourful Trek bikes and supermarket press conferences (yes, this happened).

Now that the Lidl name is in it for the long run, the jersey has been cleaned up ahead of 2025. The team have added more colour to make this harlequin motif look a little more organised than before. The top half of the jersey is dominated by a red block, offset by flashes of yellow and lighter blue. This appears a lot neater and tastefully vibrant than the previous iteration.

Although this jersey doesn’t light my fire, it’s certainly an improvement. That said, I fail to understand why the team can’t use the Lidl logotype instead of the blocky square-shaped logo that appears all over the jersey and shorts.

Notes: At home in the middle aisle

Score: 4/10

18. Picnic-PostNL

A lot has changed at Picnic-PostNL HQ over the past few months. First of all, the team has adopted a new moniker, sporting the brand name of a Dutch delivery service. Secondly, they’ve swapped out Scott bikes for the French brand Lapierre. And thirdly, the team have decided to return to its dark-coloured roots for 2025 after spending a year in white and turquoise as DSM-Firmenich-PostNL.

Yes, the squad’s new kit is a much darker affair than their – let’s say – abstract outfit from last year. The main body of the jersey is navy, although the team advertised it as purple in the kit reveal in December. The two ‘Keep Challenging’ lines remain, this time in orange. However, the new sponsor Picnic’s red appears on the sleeve to balance out the blue and orange.

Overall, it’s very safe. I don’t mean that in the sense of safety, it’s just very clinical and corporate-looking. The only contentious aspect is the mix of red and orange, which does look a little unsettling, but only from a close-up image. Far away, it looks fine. Just fine.

Notes: Plain Jane

Score: 4/10

Mid

17. Visma-Lease a Bike

After a troublesome 12 months filled with crashes and obstacles, Visma-Lease a Bike are ready for 2025, a year that will see the squad once again target the Tour de France with team leader Jonas Vingegaard.

However, Cyclist has noticed that there is no jersey sponsor on the Dutch team’s kits next year. Internet sleuths have claimed that Danish brand GripGrab, which is officially providing gloves and shoe covers, have made the kit, but there’s nothing concrete to back up that claim – its logo features nowhere on the main jersey and shorts. The mystery, therefore, still remains.

Despite long-time kit provider Agu pulling out for 2025, the kit looks almost identical to the previous one. The only noticeable difference is the inclusion of the ‘Yellow B’ logo. This name refers to the agglomeration of teams that bear the same sponsor’s name, including the Dutch-based speed skating squad.

Regardless, we’re almost certain to get a special edition kit for the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes this summer.

Notes: Why only wear yellow at the Tour when you can wear it all year round?

Score: 5/10

16. XDS-Astana

When Astana announced that they would be joining forces with XDS Carbon Tech in the summer of 2024, I had my suspicions that the Kazakh baby blue and yellow would be thrown out the window. Rightly, I was worried that we’d be leaving behind this team’s heritage in the name of sponsor objectives.

Thankfully, this is not the case. XDS-Astana will be rocking a predominantly blue kit accented with flashes of red and yellow. It’s a real calypso of primary colours that wouldn’t look too out of place on children’s TV or in a colouring book.

The marble effect of the previous two Astana kits has been replaced by a swirly effect that resembles an iridescent puddle. That said, I’m glad this gaudy design takes precedence over sponsor logos.

Notes: Children’s entertainer

Score: 5/10

15. Ineos Grenadiers

I’m no self-confidence guru, but I have heard that your clothing can affect your self-perception and confidence. In psychology, this is known as ‘enclothed cognition’. In essence, when you dress in a way that aligns with your goals, your mindset shifts in a positive way. After a 2024 filled with drama, poor results and squabbling, Ineos Grenadiers should have looked into this. Instead, they’ve opted for a similar look to last year, with an orange and blue gradient through the main body of the jersey. If ‘enclothed cognition’ is anything to go by, Ineos are setting themselves up for another year of disappointment.

The eagle-eyed will have realised a slight change here, though. The blue and orange have been reversed to allow riders to be more visible on European roads with the lighter orange on the left side of the rider. Apart from this switcheroo, much of the jersey has remained the same. That said, the line that runs down the back of the jersey and through the team’s Kask helmets has been switched to white for 2025. This might be down to visibility, but it might be subtly symbolic.

This line once stood for the team’s forward thinking and innovation – at least according to the designers back in 2010 – so it could be somewhat foreboding for the team to ditch the classic blue for a white stripe of surrender.

Notes: I have a feeling this might become a cursed kit

Score: 5/10

14. UAE Team ADQ

Last year, Cyclist ranked UAE Team ADQ’s kit dead last. The team’s 2024 kit was an apocalyptic mess of pastel colours swirled alongside a phonebook of team sponsors and an out-of-place Emirati flag.

In 2025 the team have cleaned up their kit and released a far more tasteful and stylish strip. The bath bomb aesthetic is thankfully gone. Instead, the new jersey is a tricolour of white, purple and orange. The Emirati flag still looks a little oddly placed, but at least it’s more subtle this time, masked by the tasteful gradients behind it.

The three colours work together well and the use of white is much needed to calm the busy mix of sponsor logos. In addition, the white makes it onto the helmet, which is a welcomed addition after a couple of seasons spent wearing a torrid pastel-coloured helmet.

Notes: Bonus points for sock co-ordination

Score: 5/10

13. Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale Team

Decathlon-AG2R enjoyed their best year in decades in 2024. The team slotted inside the top five of the UCI rankings with Ben O’Connor making the podium of the Vuelta and fourth place overall at the Giro. On the back of this miracle season, the French outfit have unveiled their third jersey in the span of just twelve months. The revised galaxy design used for most of the 2024 season has been put to bed in favour of a less space age blue number.

In ditching its former design, a tame blue colour has been adopted for the main body of the jersey. This is flanked by two different hues on either sleeve: turquoise and aquamarine. These colours refer to the brand colours of both Van Rysel and long-term sponsor AG2R La Mondiale. This is a smart idea to keep all parties happy, but it does look a bit odd, even if asymmetry is the way to go in modern jersey design.

Despite my scepticism, I am a fan of the aquamarine featured on the right sleeve. This is complemented by the helmets and sunglasses’ frames, which adopt the same shade. This colour isn’t enough to pull Decathlon-AG2R out of the ‘mid tier’, however.

Notes: Why have one shade of blue when you can have three?

Score: 6/10

12. Movistar Team

Movistar have been through a couple of style changes over the years. They rocked a navy blue and green number throughout most of the 2010s before switching it up towards the end of the decade. Nowadays, they’ve focussed on a blue jersey with a big ‘M’ placed right at the centre.

For 2025, they’ve switched it up once more and delivered a light number filled with glitch-style blue blocks through the centre. This has split opinion online, but I side on the positive side of the fence (for once). Yes, it does look like a permanent young rider’s jersey, but it ticks plenty of boxes. It’s visually intriguing and asymmetrical and it can be spotted quite easily within the peloton.

All in, it’s different and a little experimental. This design will most likely date like milk when we look back upon it in ten years time though.

Notes: Forever young, I want to be forever young…

Score: 6/10

11. Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

Specialized stepped up to the plate and designed Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s kit for their first full year spent bearing the energy drink brand’s name. Despite only changing name last June they’ve thrown the previous design in the bin and added a heck of a lot more white.

Yes, the complete navy look has been switched out in favour of a less heat-absorbent white shade that swallows up most of the sleeves before ending abruptly above the breast to make way for the team’s many title sponsors. The navy doesn’t continue onto the back of the jersey, which appears to be white all over. This might make it tough to spot the Red Bull boys from a helicopter shot.

Whatever way you feel about the white, this will at least match up with the predominantly white paint job featured on the team’s Specialized Tarmacs.

Notes: Thankfully, they’ve kept the bulls on the bib shorts

Score: 6/10

Better

10. Groupama – FDJ

As the saying goes: ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. This rings true for Groupama-FDJ’s jersey designers in 2025 – and 2024 for that matter.

You can’t fault them for sticking with their guns though. This kit was a winner back in 2023 when it was originally unveiled, putting to bed the dated look the team had through much of the late 2010s and early 2020s. Its blue, white and red is unapologetically French while also being a really well-composed design.

The only thing to point out is that Groupama have pizzazzed their logo in the past months. The French insurance firm has gone for a modern-looking ‘G’ typeface instead of the stylised farmhouse of old.

Notes: Paris Saint Germain called. They’d like their kit back.

Score: 7/10

9. SD Worx-ProTime

After dropping Demi Vollering in the winter, Dutch superteam SD Worx have refreshed their jersey and unveiled a purple-heavy kit for 2025.

While the pinky-orange of the previous kit was close to iconic status, the fresh design looks clean. The pops of contrasting colour looks a little Roy Lichtenstein at points, but it does give this one a unique edge in comparison to the sea of darker jerseys in the bunch in 2025. I’m a little upset, however, that the helmet hasn’t incorporated more of these styles and that the team-branded Specialized bike still relies on the old colour palette rather than the refreshed design.

There’s also a new BMW logo propped onto the bottom of the sleeves. Who’d have thought?

Notes: It seems that purple is very en vogue this year

Score: 7/10

8. Alpecin-Deceuninck

Pioneers of the Canadian tuxedo revival, Alpecin-Deceuninck’s kit was met with some raised eyebrows at the beginning of the 2024 season. It seems as though the kit is going to remain the same for 2025 unless they have another surprise up their Levi sleeves (there is still yet to be official confirmation of this one).

The denim effect is an interesting play on a staple of Western fashion. It’s a playful take on the boring selection of blue jerseys that keep on appearing within the bunch. Paired with the denim effect shorts, this double denim number is in equal parts classy and kitsch. I, for one, am glad that it’ll make a return in 2025.

The blue, white and red colour combination is classic. Plus, the placement of the Canyon logo on the hems looks clean, as do the subtle yet plentiful array of sponsor logos that have been scattered around the jersey with little visual noise.

Notes: Yee haw

Score: 7/10

7. Soudal-QuickStep & AG Insurance-Soudal

What happens when you put QuickStep’s kit in the wash? Well, there’s no need to hypothesise anymore. The 2025 kits dabble in primary school tie-dye and psychedelic visuals to serve up two wonderful numbers.

The logos are framed quite well on the jersey, even though the Soudal logo insists on using a white backdrop. The Napoleon Games logo has been toned down as well, which helps, but the Safety Jogger branding remains an expensive scar on this kit.

While the men’s kit has some red mixed in somewhere – did no one teach you to separate red colours from the rest – the women’s kit has some green dashed in for the AG Insurance company colours. Both look classy and a bit different for once.

Notes: I can’t help but think this was AI-generated

Score: 7/10

Crème de la crème 

6. Human Powered Health

Women’s team Human Powered Health and their kit supplier Pactimo often knock it out of the park when it comes to their kit unveiling. Relying again on the sunset trinity of orange, blue and purple, the kit is another visual marvel.

More navy and purple have been employed in the new design. This asymmetric top half of the jersey provides more visual intrigue than the jerseys before. There’s also a stronger emphasis on darker shades in this 2025 offering. The contrast is also respected by the placement of sponsor logos throughout the jersey and sleeves.

Although orange and purple seem to be the colours of the season, Human Powered Health still manage to stand out in a tasteful manner.

Notes: Now that SD Worx have changed their jersey, this stands out more

Score: 8/10

5. Canyon-SRAM-Zondacrypto

Canyon-SRAM have had a busy twelve months. Not only did they win the Tour de France Femmes, but the team have made a busload of signings, including Danish star Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig.

The squad have often sported some of the best kits in the peloton, ripping up the general rules of pro cycling jersey design. This has often been to much avail, but this year something seems off-kilter. 

The pastel colour palette continues into the new design. That’s a plus. Similarly, the glitchy abstract effects and motifs also appear throughout the jersey. That said, the mint contours that appear on the chest seem a little manufactured. Elsewhere, the blue smudges on the left sleeve look too much like damp mould to my liking.

Regardless, the Zondacrypto logo is also a bit of an eye-sore, but that’s not the jersey designer’s fault.

Notes: I have not been convinced to invest in cryptocurrency

Score: 8/10

4. Arkéa-B&B Hotels

This year is going to be tough for Arkéa-B&B Hotels, at least on the men’s side. The squad are deep within the relegation zone and it’s looking unlikely that they’ll be able to salvage something from the 2025 season, especially with Vauquelin rumoured to be considering a move elsewhere.

Nevertheless, they’ve made the most of their final year at WorldTour level with a cracking kit. Despite its difficult circular shape, the B&B Hotels logo is neatly positioned on the blood-red body of the jersey. The side panels of the jersey recycle the Breton mythology-inspired design from last year’s offering. This is a nice touch that harks back to the team’s local identity.

As for the sleeves, this does look like the riders forgot to take off their red gilets. In a similar vein, it looks very similar to Trek’s kit from the first half of the 2019 season.

Notes: A year-round gilet trompe–l’œil

Score: 8/10

3. EF Education-EasyPost

EF’s 2024 jersey recently topped our list of the best pro cycling jerseys of the 2020s so far. Following that up is tough, but they’ve managed to create another marvellous outfit for 2025 – this time with a focus on playing cards and diamonds.

The team have revisited its Argyle motif, adding small crown and feather icons. It feels somewhat cabaret at times, but a playful edge given through the kitsch diamonds and visual easter eggs dotted all over this kit. I imagine Rapha’s design team were aiming for a theme inspired by playing cards. This maybe leans into EF’s position as jokers in the peloton, free from the constraints of being a plain sprint, GC or Classics squad.

EF have certainly had better kits, but it’s not bad at all. Their point of comparison is higher than most, but this is still a win on the design front. 

Notes: The pattern looks like it could be draped across the Big Brother Diary Room chair

Score: 8/10

2. FDJ-Suez

After signing seemingly every GC rider available on the transfer market, FDJ-Suez have spruced up their kit ahead of an exciting 2025 season.

Much like Groupama, the jersey is unequivocally French. Given that they’re backed by the state-ran lottery, this makes sense. However, the jersey appears darker in tone this year. The vibrant blues from 2024 have been mixed in with navy and black, perhaps mirroring the change in colour to the French flag in recent years (this isn’t a joke, that actually happened).

More sponsors have been piled into the top half of the jersey, but it still looks clean. All the stakeholders’ logos are well-balanced, even the massive CB banking one on the sleeves.

There’s nothing to complain about here. 

Notes: Here’s your Tour de France Femmes-winning jersey

Score: 8/10

1. Jayco-AlUla & Liv-AlUla-Jayco

The most drastic jersey redesign this year comes from the two GreenEdge teams: Jayco-AlUla and Liv-AlUla-Jayco. 

The two kits swapped out fairly uninspired designs in 2024 for a bold purple and navy outfit inspired by Saudi sunsets and the Outback’s cosmos. The design features a wavy effect drawn upon wind tunnel mapping, photo finishes and motion blur photography. All in all, though, it looks fresh and unique.

Few teams have used purple in recent years, although SD Worx and Human Powered Health have doubled down on the colour for the 2025 season. That said, this will definitely stand out in the bunch, somewhat thanks to the shadow grey shorts. 

It’s good to have Maap on board in the WorldTour pelotons. After the brand’s rise in popularity over the past decade, it’s a welcomed debut on the top-flight of the sport.

Notes: I mean, just look at it

Score: 9/10