Lotto (cycling team)

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Lotto
Team information
Based	Belgium
Founded	1985
Disbanded	2002 (merged with Domo-Farm Frites)
Discipline(s)	Road
Team kit

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 Silence-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 sponsors 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