The Rapha Super-⁠League

Two seasons, 24 rounds and four champions, three of them decided by five points. Rapha’s league set out to give British road racing a single storyline.

Rapha launched the Super-League in 2025 to answer a problem every follower of British racing knows: a calendar full of good races that never added up to a story. The pilot ran across 16 races, from the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix in May to the Wentworth Woodhouse Grand Prix at the end of August, with British Cycling’s support and one rule that set it apart. Women and men raced for the same points, the same prize and the same trophy.

The scoring was built to reward the complete rider. Points were weighted by the standing of each race, and the calendar mixed town-centre criteriums with hilly road races, so neither a pure sprinter nor a pure climber could win it alone.

We wanted a league where a killer sprint or diesel engine alone wouldn’t be enough. The aim is an all-round crown – one rider who’s mastered every facet of British racing in a single summer.

Jess Morgan, Rapha, July 2025

It worked as a contest. Matt Bostock and Robyn Clay won the first edition by five points each, Clay as part of a treble. For 2026 the league tightened to eight rounds, from the two CiCLE Classics in March and April to the first North Yorkshire Grand Prix at Ampleforth Abbey in August, with the Sheffield Grand Prix stepping in when the Cambridge Criterium was cancelled.

Morven Yeoman ran away with the women’s league. The open title went to the final round: Tom Armstrong started the day 13 points behind Ollie Wood, finished fourth while Wood was distanced, and won by five.