UAE TEAM EMIRATES

Nationality UAE Established 1999 Manager Mauro Gianetti Bike Colnago 2023 WT wins 28 2023 UCI ranking 1

Despite Jumbo-Visma winning all three Grand Tours, the vagaries of the rankings system ensured UAE Team Emirates finished the season as world number one. A big part of that, of course, was the 10 WorldTour wins of Tadej Pogačar, but it was a bigger spread of wins across the team – a weakness up until now – that elevated the team. The signing of Adam Yates proved inspired. The Bury man offered strong mountains support for Pogačar in the Tour de France, the first yellow jersey of that race and wins in Romandie and Montreal. Incoming for 2024 are climber Pavel Sivakov and Nils Politt, who’ll be a strength for Pogačar as he takes aim at the Giro-Tour double.

Tadej Pogačar Though runner-up in the Tour de France again, big wins elsewhere ensured Pogačar’s world number one ranking for the third year running