Stunning UAE Team Emirates equals 2024 record with 81 wins with HTC’s 85 in sight

Isaac del Toro produced a strong sprint to win the GP Industria & Artigianato in Italy, taking the UAE win count to an absurd 81 wins for the season, which has featured some of the best. UAE's own team record is very likely to be broken and soon, especially if the Emirati squad continue their domination at La Vuelta and with Isaac del Toro looking a prime candidate to contest any of the Italian classics.

Over the course of the 2025 Vuelta a España so far, UAE Team Emirates - XRG have picked up 7 wins out of 15 completed stages, a sensational tally. The stage wins have come from the TTT, Jay Vine, Juan Ayuso, João Almeida and Marc Soler. Is this domination from a singular team good for grand tour racing? It’s undeniably impressive, but opinions differ on its impact on the sport.

For UAE Team Emirates - XRG to have already equalled their win total record from the 2024 season is a testament to the way they have developed their talented roster, because it's not all been Tadej Pogačar. João Almeida has been in fine form throughout the course of 2025, securing 3 WorldTour stage races. Juan Ayuso picked up a number of significant wins in the early season and has rounded off his time at UAE with some successful lone-wolf expeditions in the Vuelta.

Not only those riders but one rider in particular, Isaac del Toro, simply cannot stop winning in the 2025 season and has taken 10 victories so far and appears to be continuing his romp heading into the Autumn classics. We also could have been talking about him as a grand tour winner in an alternate universe, after losing the pink jersey on the crucial stage 20. 

Then of course, we have Tadej Pogačar, whose 2025 has been one of his most successful yet. Stunning solo wins at Strade Bianche, Tour of Flanders, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège stand out in the spring. A yellow jersey domination at the Tour de France, along with multiple stage wins, and that is amongst a wealth of other achievements in 2025, with further goals to come, including his 'annual win' at Il Lombardia. Overall, it means Pogačar clearly contributed vastly to UAE's record-equalling tally, to be expected.

To break the most team wins in a season, UAE Team Emirates - XRG need to add 5 more victories to their 81-win total so far to beat the record from 2009, where Columbia-HTC took home 85 victories as a team.   

It remains to be seen where it is most likely that UAE Team Emirates - XRG could break the record, but with the team continuing to excel in the Vuelta and Pogačar rested and recuperated after an exhausting Tour, there is a real potential for Pogačar to potentially break it in one of the Canadian one day race, if not it would be expected in one of the Autumn classics through the likes of Isaac del Toro.