Gerry Ryan's missing bank guarantee is delaying Jayco's WorldTour application

The team has another deadline next Monday that it must hit.

Chris Marshall-Bell

Cor Vos

Last Monday, when the UCI announced the names of the teams that had applied for a 2026 WorldTour licence, there was one name conspicuous by its absence: Jayco-AlUla.

What seemed likely to be a case of missing paperwork is in fact a case of missing funds.

The GreenEdge team of Australian businessman Gerry Ryan, which has raced under the brand names of various Ryan-owned companies, most recently Jayco, has been a mainstay in both the top divisions of men’s and women’s cycling since 2012. The team has won Grand Tours and Monuments and established itself as one of the best-run operations in the sport.

But 2025 has been arguably the team’s most difficult season: though the men’s squad picked up 19 wins, including two stages at the Giro d’Italia and one stage at the Tour de France, they found success hard to come by compared to previous years, and finished 16th in the UCI points classification. As for the women of Liv-AlUla-Jayco, they registered only five wins all season, their second-lowest haul in their 14-year history.

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