A quick retrospective on the team victory rankings in the men’s World Tour and beyond, looking at the win rates and some extra stats.
UAE top the tables with 78 wins. They didn’t shout it from the rooftops but the plan was to go for triple digits after last year’s score of 97. Several crashes got in the way, Pogačar’s Vuelta exit counted but so did the Giro hecatomb and this without a house sprinter worthy of their ambitions but still left them well clear of the rest. It’s hardly a bad year to land the third highest tally ever behind HTC-Columbia’s record from 2009. For all their struggles, Netcompany-Ineos surprise by sitting in fourth place, their challenge is getting the quality wins of old but they score well in this quantitative ranking. Again to compare quantity and quality EF and GFDJ both have 12 but one squad won multiple grand tour stages. Poor Picnic-NL with three wins and if the worst thing was people feeling sorry for them, some sympathy might have gone with the reports of overbearing management.
This chart shows what share of the team’s wins came from their leading winner. Pogačar got over a quarter of the team’s wins. At Visma it’s Vingegaard and Brennan both on 12 which covers plenty of bases. RedBull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s lead winner was Remco Evenepoel. Netcompany-Ineos? Dorian Godon proved a great signing, there are not many opportunities for a finisseur but he took them and won and probably could have got more if he wasn’t trying to contest the Tour’s bunch sprint to Chalon-sur-Saône.
Pinarello’s Tom Pidcock got over half their wins, like Mauro Schmid at Jayco. But that’s in part because few others won but a tale of different expectations for 2027 with Schmid moving to join Pidcock as the Swiss team gets more ambitious while the Aussie team has a challenge. Alpecin-PremierTech are very reliant on Jasper Philipsen (and Mathieu van der Poel) and this showed at the Tour de France with Philipsen feeling the pressure to deliver to the point of describing dining in silence after he’d lost out on some days. Uno-X won plenty but were not reliant on any one rider for this. Groupama-FDJ owe most of their UCI points to Romain Grégoire landing top-10s in many classics but his problem is converting this into podium places and wins; their score for wins came from new signing Ewan Costiou.
This chart above goes beyond the win count to show the podium placings for the teams and the share. As you can see Visma-LAB look like alchemists with 55% of their top-3s turning to gold while Dutch rivals Unibet have the opposite problem. Is this anecdotal? With a rider like Pogačar he’s often going to deliver wins and rarely finish second so there’s probably something at work. With teams still arranged in order of total wins there does seem to be more gold on the left and more bronze on the right, that the teams with few wins owe this in part to struggling to convert an opportunity into the win.