UAE Team Emirates – XRG dominated the 2025 UCI points standings by a huge margin. Tadej Pogačar was untouchable individually, but the entire squad also consistently placed riders near the top of the rankings. Below is how the team built its record-breaking tally.
Pogačar collected an extraordinary 11,680 points, an astonishing total for any rider not named Pogačar. Even at half strength he would have led the standings, but with a full, injury-free season he won almost everywhere he raced: Strade Bianche, Tour of Flanders, Flèche Wallonne, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the Critérium du Dauphiné, the Tour de France, the Worlds, the European Championships, and Il Lombardia. Even in races he didn’t win, like Milan–Sanremo and Paris–Roubaix, he finished near the front. With only those two monuments missing from his palmarès, they will be major goals for 2026. The sheer volume and quality of his victories has led many to label his season “alien.”
Behind him, Isaac del Toro was the team’s second-highest scorer and the third-best rider in the world. His breakthrough came with a runner-up finish at the Giro d’Italia, losing pink only on the final competitive day. At 21, his lighter calendar didn’t stop him from producing one of the most dominant mid-season runs in recent years, winning several Italian classics and stage races while piling up points from July through October as he learned to lead and win.
João Almeida also surpassed 4,000 points, ranking fifth globally. He won more top-tier stage races than anyone else this season Itzulia Basque Country, the Tour de Romandie, and the Tour de Suisse and finished second at the Vuelta a España. His total would likely have been even higher had he completed the Tour de France as planned.
Next come Juan Ayuso, Jay Vine, and Brandon McNulty, each collecting major victories, including four Grand Tour stage wins at the Vuelta and multiple late-season GC triumphs—McNulty claimed the Tour de Pologne, Ayuso won Tirreno–Adriatico, and Vine took silver in the Worlds time trial. Any of them would have been the top or near-top scorer on budget-rival INEOS Grenadiers.
Even the team’s primary domestiques delivered big numbers: Jhonatan Narváez, Adam Yates, Tim Wellens, Pavel Sivakov, and Florian Vermeersch all exceeded 1,000 points. Jan Christen also joined that group with more freedom to chase results. Every rider on the roster scored, including full-time support riders like Julius Johansen, Domen Novak, Rune Herregodts, and Vegard Stake Laengen, who filled out the lower end of the table.
UCI points per rider, 2025
| Order | Rider | UCI Points |
| 1 | POGAČAR Tadej | 11680 |
| 2 | DEL TORO Isaac | 5514 |
| 3 | ALMEIDA João | 4331.1 |
| 4 | AYUSO Juan | 2602.5 |
| 5 | VINE Jay | 2320.5 |
| 6 | MCNULTY Brandon | 2153.6 |
| 7 | NARVÁEZ Jhonatan | 1497.1 |
| 8 | CHRISTEN Jan | 1347 |
| 9 | YATES Adam | 1322 |
| 10 | WELLENS Tim | 1250 |
| 11 | SIVAKOV Pavel | 1155.9 |
| 12 | VERMEERSCH Florian | 1015.3 |
| 13 | MORGADO António | 985 |
| 14 | GROßSCHARTNER Felix | 626.9 |
| 15 | SOLER Marc | 594.5 |
| 16 | COVI Alessandro | 550 |
| 17 | MOLANO Juan Sebastián | 473.1 |
| 18 | MAJKA Rafał | 461 |
| 19 | OLIVEIRA Ivo | 392.1 |
| 20 | ARRIETA Igor | 366 |
| 21 | BARONCINI Filippo | 351.4 |
| 22 | TORRES Pablo | 164 |
| 23 | OLIVEIRA Rui | 117 |
| 24 | BJERG Mikkel | 114.5 |
| 25 | POLITT Nils | 101.1 |
| 26 | JOHANSEN Julius | 29.4 |
| 27 | NOVAK Domen | 22.5 |
| 28 | HERREGODTS Rune | 14 |
| 29 | LAENGEN Vegard Stake | 6 |
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