Lotto (cycling team)
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| Based |  Belgium |
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| Founded | 1985 | |||||||||||||
| Disbanded | 2002 (merged with Domo-Farm Frites) | |||||||||||||
| Discipline(s) | Road | |||||||||||||
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Lotto was a professional road bicycle racing team, active between 1985 and 2002, when it merged with the Domo-Farm Frites team to form the new Lotto-Domo team - the predecessor to the current Predictor-Lotto team. The team was based in Belgium for its entirety.
Lotto began sponsoring a cycling team in 1984, when it co-sponsored the Tönissteiner-Lotto-Mavic-Pecotex team. In 1985, they became prime spongers of a new team bearing only their name. Walter Godefroot and Patrick Lefevere were early directeur sportifs.
[edit] Previous team names
- 1985 - Lotto
- 1986 - Lotto-Emerxil-Merckx
- 1987 - Lotto-Merckx
- 1988 - Lotto
- 1989 - Lotto
- 1990 - Lotto-Vlaanderen-Jong-Mbk-Merckx
- 1991 - Lotto-Superclub
- 1992 - Lotto-Mavic-MBK
- 1993 - Lotto
- 1994 - Lotto
- 1995 - Lotto-Isoglass
- 1996 - Lotto
- 1997 - Lotto-Mobistar-Isoglass
- 1998 - Lotto-Mobistar
- 1999 - Lotto-Mobistar
- 2000 - Lotto-Adecco
- 2001 - Lotto-Adecco
- 2002 - Lotto-Adecco
