The organizers of the American Criterion Cup have confirmed the race schedule of the 2025 edition of the 1st edition of the established collection of American races for Elite Women and Men for 4 days 8. 

The series has almost the same calendar, with several geographical variations in zigzag patterns across the 8 central and western states of the United States. The race starts on 6/6 in Friday night's race for St. Francis Tarsataf in Oklahoma and culminates the Labor Day weekend at the Gateway Cup in Missouri. 

Menu changes will include a move from 7 May to 6/14 for the Salt Lake City Criterion, now a week after the second stop and Tulsataf, yet surely the Bailey & Grassar Twilight Criterion in Idaho will move from 6 May to 7/19.

While the Utah and Idaho races are used to go back-to-back, there is now a one-month gap between Indiana's iu Health Exercise Indy and the historic Downer Avenue Race (part of the Tour of America's Dairyland). 

During Chicago Grit Week, the ACC stop will take place on the last day of the week at the Fulton Market venue on 7/27 and will change from Saturday's race at Lake Bluff. That weekend of racing in the Chicago area is not related to the ACC, although it contradicts that Boise's new date is on the first day of the Chicago Grit. Another 1 return race is the Audi Denver Liter Twilight Criterion held in Colorado on 8/2.

"The American Criteria Cup member event is excited to launch their fourth season, weaving eight of the best days of the Criteria race in eight cities across the United States," Mike Weiss, Gateway Cup Event Director and ACC manager, told Cyclingnews. He said.

"Back for the 2025 season, the ACC Renaissance Finance Junior Series will highlight the top 15/16 and 17/18 Junior men and women. The program connects future top US U18 cyclists with current professional men and women through post-season mentoring and team camp.

Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers) and Jordan Parra (REIGN Storm Racing) won individual titles in last year's American Criteria Cup, and Schneider added an entire sprint competition. Danny Summerhill led the wire-to-wire in the Men's Sprint division, and his reign Storm Racing Squad dominated the men's team standings. 

As DNA Pro Cycling, the top women's team, closes after 12 seasons, and three of the top four women ride for the new team, the women's competition will see mods next year. Skylar Schneider took the world tour with SD Worx-Protime, Rylee McMullen with Virginia's Blue Ridge and Alexis Magner with Cynisca Cycling. 

Last year, riders and teams took home shares of the total prize purse100,000, while the top male and female teams each won each10,000. Individual winnings were paid 10 deep and there was another split3 split between the top 12,000 overall sprinters in each category. Weiss told Cyclingnews that the purse of the final prize for 2025, the prize structure and series programming will be announced in the coming months.

"All ACC events will feature an additional purse for the top men and women series, sprints, and team leaders at the end of the season, offering over 34 days of racing and over 500K in total prize money," Weiss added.

The ACC began in 2022 with 10 events spanning the United States and 4 races in the Southeast on May 2. 2 original races, the Athenian Orthopaedic Clinic Twilight in Georgia and the Sunny King Criterion in Alabama, have moved to the US Crits series.With this, the full schedule is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

The ACC continues to include individual races that are part of the long-standing, multi-day road race series, including Toad, the largest in the United States, competitive road cycling series 11 consecutive days of racing in southeastern Wisconsin, Chicago Grit, and 10 days of Criteria in Chicago, The Illinois area, formerly known as the Intelligia Cup.