Will UAE Team Emirates – XRG make history in 2025 by breaking the record for most wins?

As the 2025 cycling calendar turns toward its final chapter, UAE Team Emirates – XRG stand on the brink of a potential milestone. With the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, and spring classics already behind them, only the Vuelta a España, World Championships, and Il Lombardia remain among the season’s biggest events. The team has already collected 72 victories this year, just nine shy of matching their 2024 total of 81, which ranked as the third most wins by a professional team in history.

Their first triumph of 2025 came in January, when Jhonatan Narváez took stage five of the Santos Tour Down Under. Most recently, Brandon McNulty delivered both a time trial stage win and the overall title at the Tour de Pologne. Between those bookends, the team’s roster, led by Tadej Pogacar, Juan Ayuso, Isaac Del Toro, João Almeida, and others, has dominated the majority of races they have started. In short, UAE have once again been the team to beat.

The benchmark they are chasing belongs to Team Columbia – HTC, who recorded a staggering 87 wins in 2009, a season powered by Mark Cavendish’s 23 victories, the highest individual tally of that year, with André Greipel adding 20 and Edvald Boasson Hagen contributing 12. That same team also holds the second spot on the all-time list with 82 wins in 2008. UAE’s 2024 total of 81 sits just behind, making the prospect of surpassing Columbia – HTC’s long-standing record a realistic target for the rest of 2025.

Pogacar’s remaining schedule for UAE includes the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, where he will start as favourite, and Il Lombardia, where he will attempt to claim a fifth consecutive victory. Ayuso and Almeida are set to lead the team at the Vuelta, where they will aim to topple Jonas Vingegaard in the general classification while also hunting stage wins.

They still have a long way to go, but the combination of late-season one-day races, stage wins at the Vuelta, and the monument in Lombardy presents multiple pathways to closing the gap to 87.

The question is no longer whether UAE Team Emirates – XRG are the strongest squad in the peloton; it is whether they can maintain their relentless winning pace in the season’s closing months. If Pogacar, Ayuso, Almeida, and their supporting cast deliver as expected, there is a possibility that 2025 will finally be the year that Columbia – HTC’s record falls.