UCI Rankings Team Update | UAE breaks the 40.000 points barrier for the 2025 season; Intermarché-Wanty virtually secures World Tour license

Italian classics such as Il Lombardia, Tre Valli Varesine, Gran Piemonte, Coppa Bernocchi - GP Banco BPM and Trofeo Tessile & Moda - Valdengo Oropa, the Paris - Tours Elite, Tour de Vendée, Binche - Chimay - Binche / Mémorial Frank Vandenbroucke and the Chinese stage race Tour of Taihu Lake feature this week's update, which is also the penultimate of the year.

You can check the previous UCI Rankings update here. As usual, UAE Team Emirates-XRG is the team having scored the most points this week. The usual suspects - Tadej Pogacar and Isaac del Toro - were the biggest contributors, decimating the competition in every race they participated in.

Tadej Pogacar gave 1000 points to his team with back to back wins in Lombardia and Tre Valli Varesine, while Isaac del Toro won Gran Piemonte and finished in the top 10 in both of the races his teammate Pogacar won. Other UAE members also provided big points, with Jay Vine finishing ninth in Lombardia and Adam Yates getting the victory in Trofeo Tessile & Moda - Valdengo Oropa. 

The team already surpassed their former record of UCI points in a single season last week, and that record did nothing but grow. With 40.259 points, thay have almost doubled the second best team - Team Visma | Lease a Bike - and still have one last week to set an unbeatable mark.

Tudor Pro Cycling Team was the second best team of the week. Michael Storer's third place in Lombardia, Matteo Trentin's victory at the Paris - Tours Elite and Mathys Rondel's solid performance in the Italian classics gave 1161 points to the team. It is however not enough to secure a World Tour license for the 2026-2028 cycle, but it shows the team is ending the year in a very high note.

Lidl - Trek also got more than 1000 UCI points, although in their case it is not that surprising. Despite Mattias Skjelmose's abandon in Lombardia, his teammate Quinn Simmons delivered a very impressive fourth place after spending the whole day in the break.

The youngster Albert Withen Philipsen (only 19 years old) also had an oustanding performance the past week, finishing second and third in Tre Valli Varesine and Paris - Tours Elite respectively. Lidl - Trek will finish in third place only behind UAE and Visma in both the 2023-2025 and the 2025 year ranking.

The rest of the ranking remains unchanged, with UNO - X gaining a few more points compared to Intermarché-Wanty. However, the relegation battle seems to be over, as the Norwegian team is still more than 600 points behind and there are barely no races left.