UAE Group Emirates-XRG have had a near-perfect season in 2025, spearheaded by talisman Tadej Pogačar’s defence of Tour de France and World Championships titles, and compounded by the crew’s podium finishes on the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España alongside a number of Monument and WorldTour stage race victories.
The highest squad within the males’s WorldTour rankings smashed the earlier greatest whole wins document with time to spare, and equalled their very own document when it got here to energy in depth throughout their roster.
In fact, Pogačar takes lots of the plaudits due to his long-range assaults and cannibal-like fashion of racing, however the four-time Tour winner is not the one rider chargeable for the squad’s stellar season.
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A season-long purple patch
We will not begin anyplace else however UAE’s record-breaking variety of wins in 2025. Between the beginning and finish of the official UCI 2025 calendar, the crew scored 95 victories throughout one-day races, stage races, and nationwide titles.
Isaac del Toro scored one other two victories final weekend within the type of the Mexican Nationwide Championships street race and time trial titles; nonetheless, these are formally classed as the primary two victories of the 2026 season because of the timings of the UCI’s calendars.
Nonetheless, the 95 wins put them 10 away from the earlier document holders, HTC-Columbia, who in 2009 set a document of 85 wins, thanks largely to the sprinting prowess of Mark Cavendish, André Greipel, and Edvald Boasson Hagen.
However regardless of their domination within the bunch sprints, UAE Group Emirates-XRG knocked them off their perch with an 86th victory in the midst of September and virtually a month of the season nonetheless to unfold.
Because the month-by-month line graph under exhibits, Mauro Gianetti’s squad have been firing on all cylinders within the early season and already firmly on observe to surpass HTC’s efforts. UAE noticed a drop-off of their win price via Could and have been restricted to simply 5 wins on the Giro, Tour de Romandie, and Tour de Hongrie. In the meantime, HTC received six levels of the Giro alone.
Nonetheless, the 2 squads’ summer time outcomes have been comparatively comparable between June and September, with HTC amassing 52 wins to UAE’s 46. If the season culminated on September 30, Gianetti’s males would have eclipsed the document by only one win. But, within the 16 years between these two marketing campaign, the street biking season’s enlargement means there are lots extra alternatives, even because the leaves fall from the timber and the temperatures on the European continent drop.
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Whereas that should not diminish UAE’s excellent type throughout 2025, the larger amount of race days accessible to them cannot be ignored when puting their new document into perspective, particularly contemplating the 9 victories they claimed in October to HTC’s lone win at Paris-Bourges.
To place UAE Group Emirates-XRG’s prolific achievement into perspective, evaluating them in opposition to the subsequent 4 top-performing UCI WorldTour squads by race wins in 2025, their dominance is evident to see. Solely Soudal-Quickstep have been in a position to rack up greater than half of UAE’s tally, and even then, that was solely doable due to Paul Magnier’s prolific finish to the season as he scored eight victories in October.
The Belgian squad are one other instance of the season’s increasing calendar, with 22% of their victories coming within the closing 20 days of the season.
What’s extra, of UAE’s 95 victories, 46 of them correspond to WorldTour occasions. The subsequent greatest crew on that listing is Lidl-Trek, with 20 WorldTour wins in 2025.
Energy in depth, yr after yr
From the wins to the winners, UAE equalled the earlier document, set by themselves in 2024, of the variety of riders to win a race in a single season, with 20 riders contributing to their historic win tally this season.
Pogačar, Del Toro, and João Almeida cleared the path right here, all hitting double figures with 18, 16 and 10 wins in UAE colors this 2025 UCI season. In fact, Pogačar additionally defended his World Championships street race title and added the European Street Championships street race to his palmères whereas representing Slovenia. Nonetheless, it is a crew effort with UAE seeing two-thirds of their athletes taking not less than one win, and a median win tally throughout their squad of three.24.
That depth of success additionally meant that Gianetti’s squad had a win price throughout the 2025 UCI season of 30.1%, successful simply lower than each third raceday they launched into as a crew.
The subsequent closest males’s squad to that degree of effectivity was Soudal-Quickstep at an 18.7% win price. Curiously sufficient, regardless of scoring fewer wins throughout the 2009 season, HTC-Columbia really had a touch larger win share at 31.3% when in comparison with UAE’s 2025 marketing campaign.
Anecdotally, essentially the most prolific Girls’s WorldTour crew in 2025, SD Worx-Protime, makes UAE Group Emirates-XRG’s appear to be an novice squad by comparability, with a win price of 45.3% throughout their marketing campaign. In fact, vastly fewer race days and sometimes smaller fields imply that it might be unfair to check the 2 squads’ victory tallies like-for-like.
Grand Tour glory and one-day wins throughout the globe
Of their 95 victories within the 2025 UCI season, UAE claimed two-thirds of them, 63, throughout stage race occasions, whether or not that be Grand Excursions or multi-day races. When totting up the whole variety of racedays at stage races through the season, that leads to a win price of 27% for the UAE-backed crew.
As talked about earlier, 46 of their wins got here on the sport’s prime tier, simply lower than half of their total rely, whereas they claimed 19 wins at .Professional degree, and 24 at .1 degree races.
Lastly, when taking a look at UAE Group Emirates-XRG’s 2025 wins, it comes as little shock to see them concentrated across the biking heartlands of Europe. Simply shy of 1 / 4 of the crew’s triumphs (23) got here on Italian roads this season, with solely two fewer occurring in Spain. It is little shock that France is subsequent on the listing, with crew taking 12 of their 95 wins in l’Hexagone.
Elsewhere, Austria proved a contented looking floor for the squad, with six victories within the Alpine nation, whereas Jhonatan Narváez delivered the crew wins in Ecuador at his Nationwide Championships, two in Australia and a lone win in Germany alongside making the end-of-season journey to the Tour of Guangxi to win the award for many international squad member.
UAE Group Emirates-XRG received on 5 separate continents in 2025. That tally jumps as much as six, and arguably all at present doable, in the event you embrace Tadej Pogačar’s UCI Street World Championships street race victory in Kigali, Rwanda. A becoming statistic for the WorldTour’s prime crew on the finish of their record-smashing season.
