The 2025 WorldTour season was another boundary-pushing spectacle that saw records tumble from some of the earliest races on the calendar.
While he only completed 50 race days, Tadej Pogačar was once again the star rider of the season, winning almost every race he entered – from one-day Classics to three-week Grand Tours – and the 26-year-old poured fuel on the fire of the GOAT debate (although Eddy Merckx still holds the coveted crown for now).
But the story of the season wasn’t focused solely on the Slovenian Tour de France winner. There were three different Grand Tour winners and the emergence of a new wave of general classification contenders led by Oscar Onley, Tom Pidcock and Florian Lipowitz.
Mathieu van der Poel added another two Monuments and a Tour de France stage to his collection and British icon Geraint Thomas retired.
There were also a number of record-breaking feats, meaning the 2025 WorldTour will go down in history.
From the dominance of UAE Team Emirates to the continued increase in speeds in the pro peloton, here are the numbers that define the 2025 season.
20
Tadej Pogačar had another record-breaking season to remember, with a total of 20 wins. The Slovenian started 2025 at the UAE Tour in February, where he picked up stage wins on day three and seven, as well as the general classification, and finished it in October with a fifth-consecutive Il Lombardia title.
In between, he accumulated a further 14 stage or one-day race wins, including the defence of his rainbow jersey in Rwanda, while picking up a fourth Tour de France yellow jersey.
42.9
The WorldTour’s mind-boggling speeds continue to grow at a lightning-fast pace, averaging a blistering 42.9kph – an increase of 0.7kph on 2024’s previous record.
Stage 9 of the Tour de France was the second fastest in the race's history, with an average speed of 50.013kph over the 174km route.
56.671
If the average speed wasn’t impressive enough, Ineos Grenadier time-trial specialist Josh Tarling set the fastest average stage speed all season at the UAE Tour’s individual time trial. The Welsh rocket blitzed the 12.2km course in a time of 12mins 55secs at an average speed of 56.671kph.
Despite a poor season by their own standards, Ineos Grenadiers riders took the top three spots, with Italian TT specialist Filippo Ganna setting the second- and third-fastest times in stage wins at La Vuelta and Tirreno-Adriatico.
91
The 2025 UCI WorldTour calendar started in January at the Tour Down Under and concluded in October at China’s Tour of Guangxi. UAE Team Emirates record-setting rider Julius Johansen was present at both.
The team’s Danish signing started his season three days before the TDU at the Villawood Men’s Classic on 18 January, and clocked up 91 days of racing – the most in the WorldTour peloton – before reaching the Nanning finish line on 19 October.
The 26-year-old covered 14,052km during his time on the road, but his efforts fell 28 race days short of Sean Kelly’s all-time record of 119 in 1988.
97
It wasn’t only Pogačar who had a record-breaking season, with his team UAE Team Emirates–XRG recording 97 wins over the course of the year.
The UAE-registered team’s tally included 17 general classifications and eight national titles, with 20 out of its 29 registered riders claiming a win. The next best team, with a little over half that tally, was Soudal Quick-Step with 54 wins.
365
While it was the fastest WorldTour on record, it also witnessed the largest number of injuries. Although figures are combined across the men’s and women’s WorldTour, a rider per day got injured in 2025, resulting in notable high-profile withdrawals at all major races, including Jai Hindley (Giro d’Italia) and Jasper Philipsen (Tour de France).
