UAE Team Emirates is on pace to climb the UCI Team Rankings this season with 10 wins on three different continents with four different riders in the first six weeks of the 2020 season.

Last season, UAE Team Emirates finished the season fourth in the UCI World Team Rankings behind Detuning Quick-Step, Bora-Hansgrohe, and Jumbo Visma, but sixth in wins, with Astana and Mitchelton Scott more frequently Astana and Mitchelton Scott were more frequent winners.

Deceuninck-Quickstep, which was dominant last year, was second with seven wins, behind EF Pro Cycling, which won six.

UAE Team Emirates' successes include three stages for sprinter Fernando Gaviria at the Vuelta a San Juan and Sebastian Morano at the Tour Colombia 2.1. In both events, newcomer Max Richeze from Dečuninck-Quick Step led the sprint competition. Both riders outperformed Dečuninck's designated sprinter, Alvaro Hodeg.

In Europe, Tadej Pogacar won two stages and the overall at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, and Rui Costa took a stage win at the Tour of Saudi Arabia. [Meanwhile, EF Pro Cycling took three stage wins at Tour Colombia 2.1, with Sergio Iguita, Dani Martinez, and Jonathan Caicedo dominating the overall standings.

In the World Tour race, Lotto Soudal had the highest hit rate, with three wins in the Tour Down Under, two by Caleb Yuan and one by Matt Holmes. Deceuninck-Quickstep had two wins, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race by Dries Devenyns and a stage win at the Tour Down Under by Sam Bennett. Trek-Segafredo also won two World Tour races, with Richie Porte taking a stage win and the overall win at TDU.

The biggest turning point came from NTT Procycling, which, as Dimension Data, finished last among the surviving WorldTour teams, ahead of Katusha-Alpecin, which was integrated into the Israel Startup Nation organization in 2020 The team had the misfortune of being the first team to be eliminated from the competition.

NTT has already won one WorldTour race this season, with Giacomo Nizzolo winning a stage at TDU, Ben O'Connor winning a stage at Etoile de Besseges, and Max Warscheid winning two stages at the Tour de Langkawi

O'Connor won a stage at Etoile de Besseges.

Warscheid's addition and Bjarne Riis' new management team seem to be paying off so far.

Trek-Segafredo also has two wins in the Challenge Mallorca for Matteo Moschetti, Team Sunweb has four wins in the Jayco Herald SunTour, Arkea-Samsic has three wins for Nacer Bouhanni, and Nairo Quintana took the overall win in the Tour de la Provence. Tour de la Provence.

Among the World Tour teams, only the CCC team has not won so far, with seven podium finishes. CCC, which finished second in last year's World Tour standings, has seven podium finishes this year, although it did not reach the top step of the podium.

Groupama-FDJ has the fewest podium finishes of any WorldTour team, just one on each podium, and is nearly last among world teams in the UCI rankings.

Cofidis, the newest WorldTour team, has struggled as well, winning the Tropicale Amissa Bongo with Elia Viviani's brother Attilio, but European champion Attilio crashed in the Tour Down Under, He missed his chance.

* Excludes national championships and criteriums. National team wins are included in National Team.

The UCI team ranking has more riders than the podium, and World Tour points are favored over smaller races.

The UCI resets the team ranking at the start of the season and reflects the points of the 10 best riders on each team in the ranking.

Mitchelton Scott leads Team Ineos by 110 points, with UAE Team Emirates in third and Trek Segafredo close behind.

The UCI team rankings are crucial for teams hoping to remain at the top of the sport; the UCI will use the three-year team rankings to determine which teams will remain on the World Tour when the World Tour is limited to 18 teams in 2022.

Mitchelton-Scott was led in points by Daryl Impey and Simon Yates, while Ineos' second place was the result of top finishes by Dylan van Baar, Rohan Dennis, Pavel Sivakov, and Eoghan Bernal.