UCI Rankings Team Update | Can Astana actually retain World Tour position?

The 2025 season has just begun but in the space of three weeks we're already seeing serious movement on the UCI Rankings, more specifically the teams' standings. It seemed like a lost battle, but XDS Astana Team have opened up the year with an impressive streak of results and they can actually realistically aim to score enough points to hold on to their World Tour license.

Thus far the team that has scored the most points is UAE Team Emirates - XRG, who with João Almeida and Brandon McNulty have scored a big amount of points in the Valenciana. Right behind is Movistar with 1327 points, enhanced by their Valenciana performances, and afterwards XDS Astana Team who continue to pile on points through their performances in the one-day races.

Astana are now 4000 points behind Cofidis who sit in 18th spot, just above the red line, but they have closed the gap by 600 points in a matter of 3 weeks. To note that Cofidis itself has had a rather solid start to the year, with a victory at the GP La Marseillaise and a second place now in Bessèges with Dylan Teuns.

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UCI Teams Update; Date: 11/02/2025
*This ranking represents the UCI points scored in 2025 among the team's top 20 riders; and how the 2023-2025 rankings stand.

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