The 2025 men’s WorldTour will be remembered above all for the exploits of one team, operating in a whole other league from the others. By amassing just shy of a century of victories, UAE Team Emirates-XRG set unprecedented standards, winning almost twice as much as the next best team.

Chances for the other teams were therefore at a premium, especially as UAE excelled at pretty much every type of race, but there were still many other routes they found to success. Meanwhile those at the lower rungs of the WorldTour faced the threat of relegation, another major narrative in this year’s season.

Let’s take a look at each WorldTour team individually, and weigh up how their 2025 season went. 

Alpecin-Dececuninck 8 / 10

Alpecin-Deceuninck’s formerly prolific season win tallies have been falling these past few seasons, and this year fell short of twenty for the first time since 2020, but they remain one of the peloton’s elite teams as they prioritise quality of quantity. Mathieu van der Poel delivered yet another two monuments at Milan-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix, and they claimed stages in all three of the Grand Tours, including a hat-trick at the Tour de France courtesy of their three star riders: Van der Poel, Jasper Philipsen and Kaden Groves. 

Arkéa - B&B Hotels 2 / 10

Sadly, 2025 will be Arkéa - B&B Hotels final year as a professional team, after they failed to find a new title sponsor. The whole season had an end-of-days feel to it, and the team would have been relegated from the WorldTour even if they had continued to exist, but Kévin Vauquelin did at least provide some joy, providing five of their nine wins on top of runner-up finishes at the Tour de Suisse and Flèche Wallonne, and memorable top ten at the Tour de France. 

Bahrain-Victorious 3 /10

The downward trajectory that started last year continued into 2025, and their meagre tally of eight wins was the lowest in the team’s nine-year history. Three of those came in WorldTour stage races courtesy of the promising Lenny Martinez, but neither he, nor their other young GC hopefuls Antonio Tiberi and Santiago Buitrago, managed a strong Grand Tour GC bid, leaving it up to veteran Damiano Caruso to deliver their best: fifth overall at the Giro d’Italia. 

Cofidis 2 / 10

Results in 2025 do not look set to be enough to save Cofidis from relegation out of the World Tour. Only two of their nine wins came at that level, through Alex Aranburu and Bryan Coquard in stages at the Itzulia Basque Country and Tour Down Under respectively; and both those riders, like all of the top riders the team were depending on, were generally short of their best form.

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale 6 / 10

The future looks bright at Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, where Paul Seixas leads a youthful French contingent that showed great promise in 2025. They helped contribute to a win total that, as in their first season with new title sponsors last year, exceeded 25; though this time only three were at WorldTour level, the biggest coming in a Giro d’Italia stage through Nicolas Prodhomme. They were a force in the Grand Tour GC races, however, with Felix Gall placing fifth at the Tour and eighth at the Vuelta. 

EF Education-EasyPost 5 / 10

For the first time in a while EF Education-EasyPost were a force in the biggest races, most notably at the Giro d’Italia where Richard Carapaz made the podium, but also in the hilly classics where Ben Healy was one of the standout performers (including third at Liège–Bastogne–Liège). Ten wins might seem like a sharp fall from the 24 they managed last year, but six of them came in the World Tour — their most since 2021. 

Groupama-FDJ 4 / 10

In Romain Grégoire, Groupama-FDJ might have found the man to replace the void left by the departed Thibaut Pinot and Arnaud Démare, and the 22-year-old impressed by accounting for six of the team’s 15 wins this year. He wasn’t quite ready for the top races, however, with only one of those victories (a stage at the Tour de Suisse) coming at World Tour level, while the team’s more established leaders David Gaudu and Stefan Küng fell short of their best. 

Ineos Grenadiers 6 / 10

The team was badly in need of a pickup after their annus horribilis of 2024, and this year saw them begin the road to recovery. 28 wins was a healthy return, and a high concentration of them came at WorldTour level (including in all three of the Grand Tours); but the team did not feature in any of the Grand Tour GC races, and Filippo Ganna’s second-place at Milan-Sanremo was the closest they came to winning a major classic.  

Intermarché - Wanty 1 / 10

Amid talk of a merger with Lotto, Intermarché-Wanty seemed to lose their way in 2025, reflected by their startling low total of just four victories. Even in the event of that merger they might lose star man Biniam Girmay, who ended the year winless having failed to scale the heights of previous years; and it was only those past successes that prevented guaranteed relegation from the WorldTour. 

Jayco-AlUla 5 / 10

New signing Ben O’Connor did not, as hoped, turn Jayco-AlUla back into a stage race GC force, but he did contribute to the team’s decent total of 19 season wins, with his success atop the Col de la Loze at Tour de France the highlight. That was the biggest of a list that also included two stages at the Giro d’Italia, Michael Matthews at Eschborn-Frankfurt and overall victory at their home Tour Down Under courtesy of Mauro Schmid.

Lidl-Trek 9 / 10

This was the year that Lidl-Trek firmly established themselves as one of the very top teams in the World Tour. Mads Pedersen was the star, excelling at both the Giro and Vuelta to win the points classification having enjoyed a career-best spring that saw him podium at the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix and win Gent-Wevelgem. But success ran deep in the squad; Jonathan Milan was prolific in the sprints and ensured a clean sweep in Grand Tour points classifications at the Tour de France, while the likes of Giulio Ciccone (San Sebastian), Mattias Skjelmose (Amstel Gold) and Quinn Simmons also made significant contributions to the team’s total of 46 wins — the highest in their history.

Movistar 3 / 10

Despite some early signs of promise from many of their new generation of leaders, the likes of Iván Romeo, Pablo Castrillo and Javier Romo all faded once the bigger races came round. Movistar remain reliant on Enric Mas, so when his season came to an end after a disappointing Tour de France, they suffered; after picking up nine victories before July, they have been winless since.

Picnic PostNL 2 / 10

New title sponsors Picnic and PostNL did not get the return on the investment they’d have expected, as the team slumped to just four wins, their joint-lowest in history. That’s especially disappointing given the talent of their young sprinter roster of Pavel Bittner, Tobias Lund Andresen and Casper Van Uden, but the latter did at least win one at the Giro d’Italia, while young Brit Oscar Onley gave them something to both celebrate and plan the future around in his breakthrough fourth-place overall at the Tour de France. 

Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe 7 / 10

It had seemed as though Primož Roglič would again be the team’s star, looking as strong as ever in winning Volta a Catalunya. But while he crashed out of the Giro and faded to eighth at the Tour de France, young Florian Lipowitz stepped up to make the podium in the latter (having already made the podiums at both Paris-Nice and Critérium du Dauphiné), the even younger Giulio Pellizzari was sixth at the Giro and Vuelta, and Jai Hindley fourth at the Vuelta. The classics were a bit of a washout despite significant investment, but the team’s final season win tally of 23 wins was solid. 

Soudal-Quick Step 8 / 10

The departing Remco Evenepoel showed what Soudal-Quick Step will miss during a red-hot end to the season that saw him win gold medals in the World and European time trial championships, silver in both road races, and second at Il Lombardia. But the prolific success of sprinters Tim Merlier and Paul Magnier, who between them contributed 35 of the team’s 54 of victories, indicates a team in rude health, poised to retake the mantle as world’s best sprint team.

Visma-Lease a Bike 8 / 10

They may have well and truly lost their status as world’s best team to UAE Team Emirates-XRG, but Visma-Lease a Bike bounced back from their challenging 2024 season in style. Through Simon Yates at the Giro and Jonas Vingegaard at the Vuelta they won two of the three Grand Tours, with Vingegaard also finishing second at the Tour, and while Wout van Aert never quite reached his best form, young riders Olav Kooij and breakout star Matthew Brennan helped ensure they surpassed 40 wins for the season. 

UAE Team Emirates-XRG 10 / 10

If Tadej Pogačar’s 2024 was arguably the greatest individual season of all time, 2025 might just have been the greatest by a team. In terms of raw wins, it was unparalleled: their total of 95 broke Team Colombia-HTC’s record of 85 from 2009, and for all Pogačar’s continued brilliance (this time including a Tour de France and World Championships defence, plus three more monuments), that total was shared across the whole squad, with no less than 21 different riders contributing (especially João Almeida in stage races and Isaac del Toro in classics). 

Occasionally egos clashed, and potentially caused them to miss out at the Giro and Vuelta (where Del Toro and Almeida were second-place respectively), but really it’s remarkable how they manage to keep so many star riders content.

XDS Astana 7 / 10

In their first season post-Cavendish, XDS Astana pivoted towards chasing small races and UCI points in order to avoid World Tour relegation, and to great success. While they weren’t so prevalent in bigger races, winning just twice at World Tour level, they perfected the art of picking up UCI points and were prolific in second tier races, amassing a total of 32 wins — their highest since 2019.