Rapha Super-League
The competition to find the best racers in the UK is on.
How the League Works
Rapha has selected eight of the finest races in the UK to set the stage for a season-long battle between the best elite men and women in the British domestic scene. Each race is awarded a classification based on prestige, grit, atmosphere, and innovation. The higher the classification, the more points on the table for the top 20 finishers. The riders with the most points at the end of the competition will be crowned the Super-League Champions.
The early races feature the muddy sectors of the CiCLE Classics, the punishing gradients of Lincoln’s Michaelgate, winding streets in the City of London Nocturne, and Otley’s famously raucous crowds. As summer rolls in, it accelerates with a visit to the South West for the Dawlish Grand Prix, a series of road races to test the climbing legs in the North East, before it all comes to a head in the centre of Cambridge, with one final sprint.
The Races
March 22: ANEXO/CAMS Women's CiCLE Classic & April 26: Rutland International CiCLE Classic
The CiCLE Classic stands alone on the British calendar; a spring classic run over farm tracks, gravel sectors, and narrow lanes where positioning matters as much as power. The Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic carries weight as the UK's only UCI one-day road race, giving it a status on the domestic calendar that no other race can quite match. The Anexo/CAMS Women's CiCLE Classic is in 10th year and has quickly earned real prestige.
May 11: Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix
The Lincoln Grand Prix is one of the crown jewels of domestic road racing, a race whose identity is bound up with the savage cobbled rise of Michaelgate and a winners’ list stretching back to 1956. It is prestigious because everybody knows what it takes to win there: repeated climbs, sharp positioning, and the ability to survive one of the most iconic finishing circuits in British cycling.
June 13: City of London Nocturne
After nine years away, the London Nocturne returns as a UCI race with an international field and ambitions well beyond nostalgia. Reimagined as a two-day City of London spectacle with live broadcast coverage and a new central circuit, it promises to be one of the most distinctive events on the British calendar.
July 1: LOGCO Otley Cycle Races
Otley is affectionately known as the ‘crit world championships’, which tells you plenty about both its stature and its character. With big crowds, relentless racing, and a whole town that seems to throw itself into the occasion, it feels less like just another criterium and more like one of the defining community events of the domestic season.
July 17: Dawlish Grand Prix
Dawlish gives the Super-League a proper seaside stage set: a fully barriered town-centre circuit, an event village, community rides, and evening racing as the gripping finale. This young race combines the speed and aggression of elite criterium racing with proper community engagement, drawing riders and spectators into the heart of the South West.
August 9: Curlew Cup & Beaumont Trophy
The Beaumont Trophy brings deep history. One of Britain’s oldest road races, first run in 1952, while the Curlew Cup has grown into a major women’s fixture in its own right, giving the day real weight across both programmes. Raced on rolling Northumberland roads with the Ryals climb often proving decisive, they feel like proper northern classics: hard, selective and steeped in tradition.
August 16: North Yorkshire Grand Prix
The North Yorkshire Grand Prix taps into the heritage of Yorkshire road racing, echoing the much-loved Ryedale Grand Prix while bringing elite racing back to Ampleforth Abbey. Scenic but selective, it offers the sort of rolling, hard-earned contest that suits the county’s reputation: a race shaped by terrain, tradition and a proper sense of occasion.
August 23: Cambridge Criterium
The Cambridge Criterium is part race, part festival: a fast closed-road circuit around Jesus Green that brings elite racing back into the centre of Britain’s cycling capital. What makes it distinctive is its modern presentation – big prize fund, live broadcast, and a genuinely public-facing feel – while still delivering the speed and tactical sharpness of a top-level crit.
The Standings
For comprehensive previews, reportage, and post-race analysis, visit our partner The British Continental.
To view the full breakdown of points awarded, read the explainer here.
Find the H Van at Every Race
We’ll be soaking up the action at every Super-League race. The Rapha H Van will be serving coffee, and will also have an RCC Corner on each course, a lively meeting spot for Clubmates to congregate and cheer on their racing clubmates representing the Rapha Cycling Club.
Follow along
The Rapha Super-League will be brought to life through reportage, minute-by-minute updates, and live coverage. Partnering once more with the British Continental and Monument Cycling, you can follow the story of the season below.