Team-by-team ranking for the 2025 Spring Classics 🧱 🚴♂️
A comprehensive ranking of men's teams by their performances and results in the 2025 Spring Classics
From Omloop Het Nieuwsblad to Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the 2025 Spring Classics will be remembered for history-making rides from some of the greatest riders of a generation.
With all this in mind, let’s look at how each team got on in the Spring Classics and rank them from worst to best.
23. Lotto 🇧🇪
With only one win so far in 2025, it is fair to say that Lotto are having a turgid season, and their Spring Classics campaign was no different. No longer a factor in these races, the Belgian team fell well short by their standards, as they lack proper specialists on their roster to guarantee consistent results.
Milan Menten had some decent performances in the smaller races but failed to deliver a win, whilst Arnaud De Lie underperformed compared to last season and did not even race in any of the Monuments, which is an incredibly unusual occurrence for a national champion of Belgium.
Brent Van Moer and the young Alec Segaert were up towards the front in some of the cobbled races, but the team’s best results came from Lennert Van Eetvelt, who finished ninth at Strade Bianche and 16th at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
22. Movistar 🇪🇸
As with every season, very little was expected from Movistar going into the Spring Classics, and they certainly lived up to those expectations once again, as they were nowhere to be seen in almost all of the major races. They simply do not have the riders to compete in the cobbled races, and they failed to deliver any results of note in the hilly Classics, as their squad is more geared towards stage racing and the Grand Tours.
Their best result came at the Tour of Flanders, as Iván García Cortina secured ninth place for the team in their only top-10 finish of the Northern Classics. At Paris-Roubaix the following week, their entire team did not finish the race.
21. Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe 🇩🇪
After a lot of expenditure on transfers for this season, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe had seemed to have massively bolstered their Classics roster for 2025 with the signings of Gianni Moscon, Jan Tratnik, Laurance Pithie, Maxim Van Gils, Oier Lazkano, Tim van Dijke and Mick van Dijke. However, for one reason or another, the expectations of success did not materialise on the road, as they were yet another team that struggled for results. Lazkano getting sick at various points was far from ideal.
Pithie achieved a solid 11th-place finish at the Tour of Flanders, but it was Daniel Felipe Martínez who delivered their best result in the Monuments with seventh place at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Their sprinters Sam Welsford, Danny van Poppel and Jordi Meeus also came up with some decent finishes in the sprinters’ Classics, but nothing particularly of note for riders of their calibre.
20. Intermarché-Wanty 🇧🇪
Though they would have harboured hopes of multiple victories in the Spring Classics, Intermarché-Wanty ultimately came up short in a few races, taking just the one win with Dion Smith at the Volta Limburg Classic.
In the Monuments, the team fielded four riders in the top-20 at Paris-Roubaix, with Jonas Rutsch and Laurenz Rex finishing sixth and tenth, respectively, in the Hell of the North. Biniam Girmay finished 14th at Milan-San Remo, but failed to recapture the same form that saw him win Gent-Wevelgem a couple of years ago.
A breakthrough ride from Louis Barré at Amstel Gold Race handed him sixth place on the day, after finishing third at Paris-Camembert and eighth at Trofeo Laigueglia, making him one to watch for the rest of the season.
19. Cofidis 🇫🇷
Given the lack of expectation around their squad for the Spring Classics, Cofidis can be somewhat satisfied with their set of results. Milan Fretin took their sole victory at the Ronde van Limburg, as well as fourth place at both the Scheldeprijs and Nokere Koerse.
The signing of Alex Aranburu has certainly yielded results, as the Basque rider took two 15th places at Milan-San Remo and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, as well as top-5 finishes at the Gran Premio Miguel Indurain and De Brabantse Pijl.
Strong showings from Alexis Renard at the Classic Brugge-De Panne and Aimé De Gendt at E3 Harelbeke saw them finish seventh in those races. With other good performances spread across the team throughout the spring, there are certainly positives from this block of racing.
Read more: 6 conclusions from an epic edition of Paris-Roubaix 🇫🇷
18. Arkéa-B&B Hotels 🇫🇷
A terrible campaign for Arkéa-B&B Hotels was rescued solely by the exploits of Kévin Vauquelin. The Frenchman finished 20th at Strade Bianche in March, but it was his runner-up finish behind Tadej Pogačar at La Flèche Wallonne that gave them their standout result of the Spring Classics.
Luca Mozzato delivered the team’s only other results of note, with 11th place at the Classic Brugge-De Panne and 13th place at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. Otherwise, they were a complete non-entity in the Monuments, with their best result being Jenthe Biermans’ 38th place finish at Paris-Roubaix.
17. Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale 🇫🇷
After a massive overperformance in the 2024 Spring Classics, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale were given a reality check this season with a rather underwhelming set of results across their campaign. The French team have even failed to win any of the Coupe de France races, with no one-day race victories so far in 2025.
Their standout result of the season came at Paris-Roubaix, as their new signing Stefan Bissegger put in one of the best performances of his career to finish in seventh place. Dries De Bondt also had some strong showings, as he finished third at Grand Prix de Denain and seventh at Dwars door Vlaanderen.
Read more: 6 conclusions from Liège-Bastogne-Liège 🇧🇪
16. Israel-Premier Tech 🇮🇱
Whilst certainly not the worst team on this list by any means, Israel-Premier Tech had little to write home about throughout the Spring Classics, with very few standout results to their name.
Hugo Hofstetter led the team for most of the campaign, taking podiums at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne and Grand Prix Criquielion, as well as top-5s at the Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré and Gent-Wevelgem.
Corbin Strong took their best result in a Monument with 12th place at Milan-San Remo, whilst Ethan Vernon also took a solid fourth place finish at the Bredene Koksijde Classic.
In the Ardennes Classics, his 22-year-old compatriot Joseph Blackmore impressed, as after a strong showing at De Brabantse Pijl, the young British rider took back-to-back 14th-place finishes at Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne.
15. Tudor Pro Cycling 🇨🇭
Though they failed to take a one-day race win during the Spring Classics, Tudor Pro Cycling had fairly strong showings in most of the races they attended. The signings of Julian Alaphilippe and Marc Hirschi have certainly elevated their presence in the bunch, but it was the other members of their team who have shone the most this season.
In the Monuments, Matteo Trentin finished ninth at Milan-San Remo and Marco Haller took 12th place at Paris-Roubaix. The Swiss team also took podiums with Michael Storer at Trofeo Laigueglia and Marco Brenner at the Ardèche Classic, whilst Hirschi finished fourth at the Drôme Classic and sixth at the Gran Premio Miguel Indurain.
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14. Picnic PostNL 🇳🇱
A lack of quality signings during the off-season and a string of bad injuries have put Picnic PostNL in a difficult position this season, with the team unable to compete for victories on a consistent basis so far in 2025.
In an interview on the Daniel Benson Cycling Substack last week, directeur sportif Matt Winston said that despite the team’s position in the UCI rankings and the threat of relegation from the WorldTour, they will not put added pressure on the riders to deliver results.
The injury to John Degenkolb at the Tour of Flanders ahead of Paris-Roubaix certainly came as a massive blow to their chances at both races, as he looked to be in decent form and had finished 11th at Gent-Wevelgem a week prior. A 12th-place finish from Oscar Onley at Liège-Bastogne-Liège was a massive improvement on their other Monument results, which were otherwise very poor.
The best rider of the campaign was undoubtedly Nils Eekhoff, who recovered from his horrific crash at the AlUla Tour in January to win Nokere Koerse and finish third at the Bredene Koksijde Classic in the two one-day races that he has ridden this season.
13. Jayco AlUla 🇦🇺
Michael Matthews might need to see an osteopath after almost carrying the entire Jayco AlUla team on his back throughout the Spring Classics. The Australian rider finished best of the rest at Milan-San Remo with a fourth-place finish and held on for 13th at the Tour of Flanders. He then finished fifth at Amstel Gold Race and 11th at Liège-Bastogne-Liège to conclude a strong campaign in which he was consistent throughout.
Though not to the same level as Matthews, other riders did chip in with a few results here and there, as Dylan Groenewegen finished 9th at the Classic Brugge-De Panne and 12th at the Scheldeprijs. Meanwhile, Mauro Schmid impressed in the Ardennes Classics with 15th at Amstel Gold Race and tenth at La Flèche Wallonne.
12. Bahrain Victorious 🇧🇭
An illness-stricken Matej Mohorič put Bahrain Victorious in a difficult position throughout the Spring Classics, as they could not rely on the Slovenian for results as they had done in previous seasons. The former Milan-San Remo winner struggled throughout the campaign and did not finish in as many one-day races as he did finish, with his best result being 21st place at the Tour of Flanders.
Fortunately for the team, many of their other riders stepped up, with Fred Wright chief among them, as he took two top-10 finishes in Monuments, with tenth place at Milan-San Remo and ninth place at Paris-Roubaix.
Additionally, Phil Bauhaus finished in fourth at the Classic Brugge-De Panne and Pello Bilbao took fifth place at Strade Bianche. They also fielded two riders in the top-10 at La Flèche Wallonne with Lenny Martinez and Santiago Buitrago finishing fourth and sixth respectively.
11. XDS Astana 🇰🇿
In an attempt to avoid relegation from the WorldTour at the end of the season, XDS Astana put on a masterclass in points scoring throughout the Spring Classics. They began their campaign by fielding three riders in the top-5 at the Ardèche Classic and two in the top-10 at the Drôme Classic the following day, before finishing second and seventh with Christian Scaroni and Alberto Bettiol respectively at Trofeo Laigueglia.
New signing Mike Teunissen was a standout performer for the team, as in the first three Monuments of the season, he finished 11th at Milan-San Remo, 12th at the Tour of Flanders and 16th at Paris-Roubaix. Additionally, he also finished tenth at E3 Harelbeke and 16th at Gent-Wevelgem, earning the team a large haul of points towards their UCI team ranking.
Davide Ballerini and Max Kanter also secured multiple top-10s in the Flemish Classics, whilst Simone Velasco finished eighth at the Gran Premio Miguel Indurain before concluding the team’s campaign with a fourth-place finish at Liège-Bastogne-Liège to move them within touching distance of Picnic Postnl and safety from WorldTour relegation.
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