With another season done and dusted, and the most recent UCI WorldTour cycle finished, we’ve had a look back at the year to rate every WorldTour team’s campaign in 2025.
It was a year filled with extremes, on one end UAE Team Emirates and their merry band of superstars broke the record for most wins in a season, but on the other relegation meant financial concerns and even the end of the road completely.
I’ve cast my eye over each team’s performances this year and rated each one.
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Arkéa B&B-Hotels: 1/10
A.S.O./Charly Lopez
It’s been a miserable year for the Arkéa B&B-Hotels. While Kévin Vauquelin had a breakthrough season the sponsors jumped ship and the team are closing the shutters after two decades.
Intermarché-Wanty: 2/10
A.S.O./Charly Lopez
Three victories, none at the WorldTour level and star rider Biniam Girmay failing to bring home a victory for the first time in his professional career. They did squeeze in two riders in the top ten at Paris-Roubaix though.
More financial issues mean from next year they will be merging with Lotto.
Cofidis: 3/10
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Maybe WorldTour relegation will be a good thing for Cofidis, ProTeam feels a bit more their scene. Sprinter Milan Fretin was their main man, bringing three victories and a second place on Stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia, but the team were pretty forgettable.
Movistar: 4/10
A.S.O./Billy Ceusters
An almost-middle of the road ranking for a middle of the road squad whose win rate has only been decreasing in recent years. They managed a few stage races podiums at Itzulia, Catalunya and the Tour Down Under in 2025 but feel like a team still hunting for an identity. Cue… Cian Uijtdebroeks?
Groupama-FDJ: 5/10
A.S.O./Billy Ceusters
Romain Grégoire really stepped it up a gear this season, winning the Tour of Britain, stages in Britain, Switzerland and Luxembourg as well as seventh place finishes at the Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne. David Gaudu had somewhat of a renaissance too, leading the Vuelta a España for a day after his victory on Stage 3, one of only two WorldTour wins for the team.
Bahrain Victorious: 6/10
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The story of the season for Bahrain Victorious was Torstein Træen leading a Grand Tour for the first time at the Vuelta, three years after recovering from testicular cancer. Meanwhile 38-year-old Damiano Caruso was once again consistent at the Giro, adding a fifth place to his second in 2021 and fourth in 2023, but this was a result that went heavily under the radar and was due, in part, to Antonio Tiberi failing to live up to expectations in his home race.
Elsewhere Santiago Buitrago won two stages and the overall at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Lenny Martinez saw stage success at Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie and Critérium du Dauphiné. It wasn’t the worst team performance in 2025, but could’ve been better. They were largely forgettable outside of Caruso and Træen in Grand Tours.
Jayco-AlUla: 6/10
A.S.O./Billy Ceusters
Jayco-AlUla notched two Giro stages thanks to the talents of Luke Plapp and Chris Harper. Paul Double went on an impressive run of form to close the year with stage race victories at the Tour de Slovakia and Tour of Guangxi thanks to wins on the final days.
Ben O’Connor won atop the Col de la Loze at the Tour having not made a dent on GC – somewhat of a fair trade off – but Dylan Groenewegen couldn’t compete with the top dogs for any of the sprint stages, never once cracking the top ten. In the twilight of his career, Michael Matthews raced to fourth at Milan-San Remo and fifth at the Amstel Gold Race.
Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale: 6/10
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Decathlon-AG2R thrive on home roads. 18 of their wins come in France with wins at the Tour de la Provence and Tro-Bro Léon, but one of the biggest results came from Nicolas Prodhomme at the Giro. On Stage 19, the Frenchman launched a 28km solo break from the breakaway on the Col de Joux for his first win at a Grand Tour. Felix Gall ended up fifth at the Tour and eighth at the Vuelta too.
Paul Seixas impressed as the youngest man on the WorldTour and a great hope for the future. After he finished second following a 88km breakaway at Paris-Camembert, the 19-year-old won the points classification at the Tour of the Alps, finished eighth at the Critérium du Dauphiné, won the Tour de l’Avenir, came third at the European championships and ended the year seventh at Il Lombardia.
Ineos Grenadiers: 7/10
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After years dominating Grand Tours GCs, Ineos Grenadiers are a team content with winning stages and that they did this season. Thymen Arensman had a debut Tour beyond his dreams with two mountain victories, one on Superbagnères and the other on La Plagne. However the team’s head carer David Rozman left the Tour over alleged links to a doping ring. They weren’t answering questions, leaving Arensmen out to dry after his wins.
Ben Turner kicked off a strong Vuelta campaign for the team, sprinting to victory on Stage 4 having been called up as a late substitute. Egan Bernal and Filippo Ganna followed suit. The Classics didn’t deliver for them though, the closest they came to winning being Ganna’s impressive second at Milan-San Remo and third at E3 Saxo Classic.
XDS-Astana: 7.5/10
A.S.O./Billy Ceusters
2025 was the year of such strong points hunting that, despite beginning the year staring down the barrel of relegation, XDS-Astana saved their WorldTour spot with strategic race selections, excellent tactics and wins at Hainan, Türkiye and Langkawi. That’s not the most glamorous list of races with only one Grand Tour stage in the post-Mark Cavendish era, but it got the job done. Besides, that’s before we get to the Giro – where Lorenzo Fortunato won the mountains classification and combativity award and helped teammate Christian Scaroni to a stage win.
Picnic-PostNL: 7.5/10
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It might seem off kilter to rank a squad with only four victories this season so highly, but scratch the surface and you’ll remember the might of Oscar Onley at the Tour de France. One of the standouts of the three weeks, the 23-year-old Scot placed fifth on Hautacam, sixth on Superbagnères, fourth on the Col de la Loze and fifth on La Plagne to end the race just off the podium.
It was a season their young riders really shone, with 24-year-old Casper van Uden winning a Giro stage and Frank van den Broek coming second on Stage 20 of the Tour.
EF Education-EasyPost: 8/10
A.S.O./Charly Lopez
We all remember where we were when Ben Healy became the first Irishman in almost four decades to lead the Tour, pulling on the yellow jersey heading into the first rest day. It came a few days after his breakaway win on Stage 6 to Le Mont-Dore. It was a brilliant season for Healy who finished third at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, fourth at Strade Bianche, fifth at La Flèche Wallonne and third at the World Championships.
Richard Carapaz podiumed at the Giro despite a frustrating stage on the Colle delle Finestre that saw a stalemate with Isaac Del Toro. And who could forget perhaps the defining moment of the early season, when Neilson Powless defied the odds against three Visma-Lease a Bike riders to win Dwars door Vlaanderen? Move over Ian Stannard.
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe: 8.5/10
A.S.O./Charly Lopez
Red Bull gives you wings. Florian Lipowitz enjoyed a breakthrough year with podiums at Paris-Nice, the Critérium du Dauphiné and of course most notably the Tour de France, while Italian teammate Giulio Pellizzari shone with sixth at both the Giro and Vuelta, Jai Hindley finished just off the podium at the Vuelta too. Sure they only won one stage in Italy and Spain, but the development of Pellizzari is something to track.
Primož Roglič proved he still has it with an overall win at Catalunya, but his breakaway escapade at the Tour could’ve been better spent helping his teammate move further up the GC. Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe will welcome Remco Evenepoel in 2026, how many cooks is too many?
Soudal-QuickStep: 8.5/10
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An impressive haul of over 50 victories and the milestone of 1,000 wins all-time meant Soudal-QuickStep’s 2025 was pretty good. Tim Merlier swept up stages and one-day races as youngster Paul Magnier continued to showcase his talents through a second place at Omloop Nieuwsblad, a Giro stage podium and points classifications in the Tour of Slovakia, Cro Race and Tour of Guangxi.
It was a mixed bag in Grand Tours. The squad couldn’t win at the Giro or Vuelta (despite Mikel Landa’s best efforts in the latter) but grabbed four stages at the Tour thanks to Merlier, Evenepoel and Valentin Paret-Peintre. They lost points for not having a single victory in the Classics, which is very unlike them, but they’ve signed reinforcements for 2026 in the form of Jasper Stuyven, Dylan van Baarle, Alberto Dainese and Laurenz Rex.
Lidl-Trek: 9/10
A.S.O./Dean Koh
Lidl-Trek dominated the Giro with six stage wins, four coming from Mads Pedersen, who led the points classification throughout the entire race. At the Vuelta, the Dane would win one stage and the points classification. Jonathan Milan justified his selection for a debut Tour, winning two stages and the points classification.
Gent-Wevelgem was theirs thanks to – you guessed it – Pedersen, as Mattias Skjelmose downed Tadej Pogačar and Evenepoel to win the Amstel Gold Race. The only downside would be a distinct lack of Monuments. Skjelmose and Giulio Ciccone can’t seem to get things clicking on GC, but stages largely seem to be the name of the game, and with such strength, why would they change?
Alpecin-Deceuninck: 9.5/10
Xavier Pereyron
There was no stopping Mathieu van der Poel in the Classics, the Dutchman flexing his muscles to win Milan-San Remo, the E3 Saxo Classic and Paris-Roubaix. Jasper Philipsen wore the first yellow jersey of the Tour as Van der Poel earned back-to-back stage wins for the team, their fanfare dampened with Philipsen then crashing out while in the green jersey. This did however allow Kaden Groves a chance and he won Stage 20 from the breakaway.
Philipsen was back in action at the Vuelta. In a repeat of the Tour, he won the opening stage to wear the first leader’s jersey of the race and would reign victorious in another two stages.
Visma-Lease a Bike: 9.5/10
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Picture this. You’re asked in January of 2025 who you think will bring in the most wins for Visma-Lease a Bike this season. You definitely wouldn’t have said Olav Kooij and Matthew Brennan.
The pair were setting the roads ablaze for over half of the team’s wins. Kooij’s mostly came at the Tour of Britain, the Tour of Oman and two Giro stages while Brennan’s breakout season was defined by a four-win streak in March and his first pro GC win in the Tour of Norway after obliterating the field.
Then there’s the Grand Tours. While Jonas Vingegaard again missed out on the Tour to Pogačar, he won his first Vuelta title while Simon Yates saw Finestre redemption on his way to the maglia rosa. Two out of three ain’t bad.
UAE Team Emirates XRG: 10/10
A.S.O./Jennifer Lindini
It could only ever be full marks for the team that broke the record for most victories in a season, hoarding the spoils with 95 in 2025 if we include national titles. It surpasses HTC-Columbia’s 85 in 2009 and is highlighted by Pogačar’s success at the Tour, World Championships, Tour of Flanders, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Il Lombardia, Strade Bianche, classifications at the Critérium du Dauphiné and UAE Tour, and… you get it.
But the thing is, the victories didn’t just come from the Slovenian. Twenty different riders won for UAE Team Emirates XRG in 2025, youngster Isaac del Toro close behind Pogacar’s 18 with 16 wins (and a surprise second place at the Giro) and João Almeida bringing home ten. Their dominance is staggering. Good for the sport? Depends on who you ask, but for those who want to see more of a fight? Well, you might just be waiting a while…
