At the end of the 2025 cycling season, UAE Team Emirates - XRG is once again at the top of the UCI world rankings. The clear lead over the competition comes as a surprise, as the 20 best riders collected a total of 40,637 points under the leadership of the renewed Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar. This represents a new record and surpasses the previous year's result by 3000 points.
And this despite Team Visma | Lease a Bike's double success in the Grand Tours. With 22,876 points, the team is the second-best team of the season, but only has just over half of UAE's points. For the Dutch riders, who won the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España, this is 2000 points more than in 2024, but the gap to UAE is huge. Third place in the 2025 world rankings was secured this season by Team Lidl - Trek, who finished fourth in the previous calendar year.
Bahrain and Astana in the top 10, Lotto and Groupama plummet
While most teams only improved or dropped one place, Bahrain - Victorious was able to fight its way back into the top ten teams. Although the team only improved by just under 1400 points, it was able to make up seven positions. The big winner in 2025 is the XDS Astana team. Coming from 21st place, the Kazakh team made it to fourth place in the team classification, with an improvement of over 10,000 points.
But there are also clear losers in 2025, with Soudal Quick-Step having to make do with fifth place this season, compared to third last year. However, the Groupama - FDJ and Lotto teams have been hit particularly hard. Groupama finished tenth last year, but slipped to 18th place this year. Lotto, who are to merge with Intermarché - Wanty next season, also dropped from ninth to 23rd place.
Only eight teams better than high-flyer Pogačar
Year on year, there are fewer and fewer of them. INEOS Grenadiers narrowly escaped the embarrassment of doing worse than the one-man team of Tadej Pogačar. The Slovenian season dominator collected 11,680 points alone and would have finished ninth in the world team rankings, just behind the British team (12,096 points). The best team with a Pro licence was Uno-X Mobility in eleventh place in the world rankings (10,816 points).
The top 10 of the UCI Team Ranking 2025
- UAE Team Emirates - XRG (United Arab Emirates) 40,637 points
- Team Visma | Lease a Bike (Netherlands) 22,876 points
- Lidl - Trek (USA) 21,267 Points
- XDS Astana Team (Kazakhstan) 16,711 points
- Soudal Quick-Step (Belgium) 14,930 points
- Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (Germany) 14,140 points
- Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (France) 12,626 points
- INEOS Grenadiers (Great Britain) 12,096 points
- Alpecin - Deceuninck (Belgium) 11,717 points
- Bahrain - Victorious (Bahrain) 10,912 points
UAE Team Emirates - XRG 2025 also set a new record for victories. The men in the white jerseys cheered a total of 97 times. That is also almost twice as many as the second-best team. Soudal Quick-Step achieved 54 victories. Lidl - Trek landed in third place with 46 victories, while Team Visma | Lease a Bike came fourth with 40 wins. The best German team is Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe with 23 wins and 8th place, the same number of wins as the best ProTour teams. With Israel - Premier Tech, Uno-X Mobility and Team Solution Tech - Vini Fantini, three teams from the second division have managed to achieve as many victories.
Belgium narrowly wins nation ranking
For the sixth year in a row, Belgium leads the UCI's nation rankings with 17,986 points. However, with a lead of just under 800 points, it is closer than ever for the Benelux country. Denmark in particular has made up ground, with 17,191 points and second place in the ranking. The fact that it is so close between the two leaders is not only due to the almost 5,000 points that Denmark was able to gain compared to the previous year, but also to the loss of 6,500 points by the Belgians. Slovenia had to settle for third place instead of second, while Italy and France swapped places - Italy now in fourth and France in sixth. Great Britain improves from ninth to fifth place, while Spain drops from third place to tenth.
The top 10 of the UCI Nations Ranking 2025
- Belgium 17,986 points
- Denmark 17,191 points
- Slovenia 14,958 points
- Italy 14,943 points
- Great Britain 14,614 points
- France 13,769 points
- Australia 11,518 points
- Netherlands 11,094 points
- USA 10,231 points
- Spain 9076 points
The previous winners of the UCI team and nation rankings
- 2025 UAE Team Emirates 40,637 points | Belgium 17,986 points
- 2024 UAE Team Emirates 37,407 points | Belgium 24,499 points
- 2023 UAE Team Emirates 30,958 points | Belgium 23,090 points
- 2022 Jumbo-Visma 15,003 points | Belgium 17,901 points
- 2021 Deceuninck - Quick Step 15,641 points | Belgium 14,364 points
- 2020 Jumbo-Visma 9919 points | France 9542 points
- 2019 Deceuninck - Quick Step 14,835 points | Belgium 13,491 points
- 2018 (no team ranking) | Belgium 14502 points
- 2017 (no team ranking) | Belgium 14,600 points
- 2016 (no team ranking) | France 13,007 points
- 2015 (no team classification) | Spain 16,805 points
Leon Weidner
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