The Tour de France was the teams' best chance to turn their fortunes around in order to remain in the WorldTour in 2023, when the UCI will introduce a promotion/relegation system. However, Lotto Soudal and Israel Premier Tech fell further behind in their bid to escape the relegation zone.

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Lotto Soudal had a terrible Tour de France, while Caleb Yuan struggled to finish and failed to score a single UCI point. The Belgian team's only points came from Andreas Krohn, who finished fourth on stage 8.

Israeli premier techs Simon Clark and Hugo Houle won stages. The Canadian also earned points for third place on stage 13 and 24th overall. He was deducted 25 points for littering on one stage. The team's 333 points in July were not enough to overtake Lotto Soudal.

The two teams still have a chance to become the highest ranked pro team and can take solace in the possibility of earning automatic invitations to all major races even if they do not compete on the World Tour next year.

Lotto Soudal is in 12th place in the 2022 team standings and looks solid to earn an automatic invitation even if relegated, while Israel Premier Tech is languishing in 18th place, 319 points behind Total Energies.

The battle for the two wildcard slots will continue until the end of the season.

Alpecin Deceuninck and Alkea Samsic are the teams most likely to be promoted to the World Tour in 2023 after finishing in the top 18 of the three-year team standings. Dutch team Arkea Samsic, with Jasper Philipsen, won two stages, including a sprint stage on the Champs-Elysées. Most of Alcare's points (400 out of 480) came from Nairo Quintana's sixth place in the final standings.

EF Education-Easy Post was slow to gain points in the first six months of the season, but a stage win by Magnus Cort and the lead time in the mountains made up for lost points and put them ahead of Movistar. He is now 936 points ahead of Lotto Soudal, and closer to 16th-placed Cofidis, who is much safer than he was in June.

Had Enric Mas not finished the race in 11th place, the two teams would have been nearly even.

BikeExchange-Jayco also moved out of the relegation zone with stage wins by Dylan Groenewegen and Michael Matthews. The Australian team remains in 18th place, 654 points behind Lotto Soudal.

Uno-X, which was not invited to the Tour de France, will not advance toward promotion to the World Tour and is unlikely to be one of the top two pro teams in 2022 (the team automatically invited to the Tour next year).

The Tour de France also highlighted a major inequality at the top of the World Tour. Jonas Vingegaard earned 1,000 points for the overall win, 120 points for the mountains, 25 points each day for the maillot jaune, and 120 points for each of his two stage wins, for a total of 1,760 points. This is more points than UAE Team Emirates, with Tadej Pogachar in second place, earned in the Tour de France.

Jumbo-Visma earned 845 points with three stage wins by green jersey winner Wout Van Aert, who won both the yellow and green jerseys. The three-year point total for "Killer Bee" is nearly triple that of Israel Premier Tech.

UAE Team Emirates earned 1,705 points, ahead of Ineos' 1,175.

Far behind in terms of budget were Bahrain Victorious with only 55 points and Movistar Team with only 170 points. Even Quick Step Alpha Vinyl, with two stage wins by Yves Lampert and Fabio Jacobsen, fell short of its record for the remainder of the three-year period, but it has the third most points over the period, with plenty to spare.