UCI Rankings Teams Update | UAE remain dominant leaders as Astana continue great escape against World Tour relegation
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Another week and another set of big wins for UAE Team Emirates - XRG as Juan Ayuso secured the GC triumph at Tirreno-Adriatico 2025, further strengthening the team's hold at the top of the UCI Rankings. In the fight against World Tour relegation meanwhile, XDS Astana Team continue to edge closer to a great escape.
You can check the previous update here. An extra 800 points were added to UAE Team Emirates - XRG's tally since, mostly because of Ayuso's aforementioned victory at Tirreno-Adriatico, but a Paris-Nice stage win for Joao Almeida also kept the counter ticking over nicely.
As mentioned though, it's near the bottom of the rankings where the real excitement is. Cofidis remain around 2,500 points clear of Astana in the fight for the final World Tour spot for the next cycle. Compared to their advantage at the same time last week though, the French team's buffer has alarmingly cut by around 300 points. In fact, if both Cofidis and Astana continue to pick up strong results, it might actually be Team Picnic PostNL most at risk.
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UCI Teams Update; Date: 18/03/2025
*This ranking represents the UCI points scored in 2025 among the team's top 20 riders; and how the 2023-2025 rankings stand.
| Order | Team | 2023-2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Category |
| 1 | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | 74.774 | 5.757 | 37.979 | 31.038 | WT |
| 2 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 52.456 | 2.022 | 20.549 | 29.885 | WT |
| 3 | Soudal Quick-Step | 39.103 | 1.991 | 18.328 | 18.784 | WT |
| 4 | Lidl-Trek | 36.550 | 2.404 | 18.072 | 16.074 | WT |
| 5 | INEOS Grenadiers | 36.539 | 3.083 | 15.457 | 17.999 | WT |
| 6 | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 33.108 | 2.667 | 17.006 | 13.435 | WT |
| 7 | Alpecin-Deceuninck | 30.745 | 1.069 | 15.134 | 14.542 | WT |
| 8 | Groupama-FDJ | 28.594 | 1.419 | 12.290 | 14.885 | WT |
| 9 | Bahrain Victorious | 27.632 | 2.302 | 9.507 | 15.823 | WT |
| 10 | Lotto | 27.064 | 654 | 12.464 | 13.946 | PT |
| 11 | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | 26.863 | 1.764 | 15.991 | 9.108 | WT |
| 12 | EF Education-EasyPost | 24.863 | 1.412 | 11.516 | 11.935 | WT |
| 13 | Movistar Team | 24.413 | 2.346 | 10.950 | 11.117 | WT |
| 14 | Israel-Premier Tech | 23.041 | 1.584 | 11.420 | 10.037 | PT |
| 15 | Team Jayco-AlUla | 22.772 | 1.452 | 10.591 | 10.729 | WT |
| 16 | Intermarché-Wanty | 21.662 | 882 | 10.063 | 10.717 | WT |
| 17 | Team Picnic PostNL | 19.936 | 1.118 | 9.691 | 9.127 | WT |
| 18 | Cofidis | 19.787 | 1.336 | 7.929 | 10.522 | WT |
| 19 | XDS Astana Team | 17.373 | 3.583 | 6.656 | 7.134 | WT |
| 20 | Uno-X Mobility | 17.274 | 1.642 | 9.008 | 6.624 | PT |
| 21 | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | 17.131 | 1.020 | 8.817 | 7.294 | WT |
| 22 | Team TotalEnergies | 11.963 | 1.231 | 4.942 | 5.790 | PT |
| 23 | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | 10.289 | 1.798 | 5.753 | 2.738 | PT |
| 24 | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | 8.694 | 1.657 | 3.600 | 3.437 | PT |
| 25 | VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè | 6.973 | 298 | 3.224 | 3.451 | PT |
| 26 | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 6.453 | 473 | 3.855 | 2.125 | PT |
| 27 | Equipo Kern Pharma | 5.634 | 558 | 3.361 | 1.715 | PT |
| 28 | Team Polti VisitMalta | 5.432 | 384 | 2.626 | 2.422 | PT |
| 29 | Burgos Burpellet BH | 5.209 | 804 | 2.796 | 1.609 | PT |
| 30 | Solution Tech-Vini Fantini | 3.231 | 469 | 1.167 | 1.595 | PT |
| 31 | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 3.025 | 155 | 1.349 | 1.521 | PT |
| 32 | Wagner Bazin WB | 2.864 | 51 | 1.397 | 1.416 | PT |
| 33 | Unibet Tietema Rockets | 2.727 | 462 | 1.414 | 851 | PT |
| 34 | Team Flanders-Baloise | 1.973 | 221 | 686 | 1.066 | PT |
| 35 | Team Novo Nordisk | 655 | 15 | 254 | 386 | PT |
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