Lotto–Soudal

Lotto–Soudal

Team information
UCI code	LTS
Registered	Belgium
Founded	1985 (1985)
Discipline	Road
Status	UCI WorldTeam
Bicycles	Ridley
Components	Campagnolo
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager	Cees Pille
Team manager(s)	Marc Sergeant
Team name history
1985 1986 1986[N 1] 1987 1987[N 2] 1988 1988–1989 1990 1991 1992 1993–1994 1995 1996 1997 1998–1999 2000–2002 2003–2004 2005–2006 2007 2008–2009 2010–2011 2012–2014 2015– 2016 2017	Lotto Lotto-Emerxil–Merckx Joker–Emerxil–Merckx Lotto–Merckx Joker–Merckx Lotto Lotto–Vlaanderen–Jong–Mbk–Merckx Lotto–Superclub Lotto Lotto–Mavic–MBK Lotto Lotto–Isoglass Lotto Lotto–Mobistar–Isoglass Lotto–Mobistar Lotto–Adecco Lotto–Domo (LOT) Davitamon–Lotto (DVL) Predictor–Lotto (PRL) Silence–Lotto (SIL) Omega Pharma–Lotto (OLO) Lotto–Belisol (LTB) Lotto–Soudall Lotto Fix ALL[N 3] Lotto Fix ALL[N 4]
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Lotto–Soudal (UCI team code: LTS) is a Belgian professional cycling team sponsored by the Belgian lottery and Soudal, an adhesives manufacturer. The same organisations also sponsor a women's cycling team, Lotto–Soudal Ladies.

Sponsorship

For the 2015 Tour of Belgium the team changed their kit from red to orange to reflect one of their sponsors, Joker+.

Lotto has a long history of cycling sponsorship, they began sponsoring 1984 with Tönissteiner-Lotto-Mavic-Pecotex. In 1985, it became prime sponsor of a team bearing only its name. Walter Godefroot and Patrick Lefevere were early directeurs sportifs. The fusion of the Lotto-Adecco and Domo-Farm Frites teams for the start of the 2003 season created the current team and structure in the guise of Lotto-Domo.

Omega Pharma had previously been a co-sponsor of the Quick Step-Davitamon team in 2003 and 2004. Omega Pharma became the main sponsors in 2005, under their Davitamon brand name. The team name switched to Omega Pharma's Predictor brand name in 2007 and the Silence brand in 2008. From 2010 the team became known as Omega Pharma-Lotto, before moving to the Quick-Step setup for the 2012 season.

Belisol became co-sponsors in 2012, and are a Belgian company making windows and doors and solar panels.

On the final day of the 2014 Tour de France the team announced that they had secured new sponsorship for the team with Soudal. Soudal was founded in 1966 and produces a range of sealants, adhesives and foams. Soudal will become a co-naming sponsor for the next six seasons, ensuring the team continues until the 2020 season, the team name becoming Lotto Soudal. Lotto will continue to sponsor the team, as well as the women's team and under-23 team.^[1] For the 2016 Paris–Nice the team confirmed they would change their team name to Lotto Fix ALL and the team kit to a grey colour. This is to reflect one of Soudal's key brands.^[2]

Current team structure

The team is managed by Marc Sergeant and Bill Olivier and they are assisted by Herman Frison, Jean-Pierre Heynderickx, Bart Leysen, Marc Wauters, Mario Aerts and Michiel Elijzen. Johan Mordijck is the media officer.

Team roster

Rider Date of birth  Sander Armée (BEL) (1985-12-10) 10 December 1985  Lars Bak (DEN) (1980-01-16) 16 January 1980  Tiesj Benoot (BEL) (1994-03-11) 11 March 1994  Kris Boeckmans (BEL) (1987-02-13) 13 February 1987  Sean De Bie (BEL) (1991-10-03) 3 October 1991  Jasper De Buyst (BEL) (1993-11-24) 24 November 1993  Bart De Clercq (BEL) (1986-08-26) 26 August 1986  Thomas De Gendt (BEL) (1986-11-06) 6 November 1986  Jens Debusschere (BEL) (1989-08-28) 28 August 1989  Frederik Frison (BEL) (1992-07-28) 28 July 1992  Tony Gallopin (FRA) (1988-04-19) 19 April 1988  André Greipel (GER) (1982-07-16) 16 July 1982  Adam Hansen (AUS) (1981-05-11) 11 May 1981  Moreno Hofland (NED) (1991-08-31) 31 August 1991

Rider Date of birth  Nikolas Maes (BEL) (1986-04-09) 9 April 1986  Tomasz Marczyński (POL) (1984-03-06) 6 March 1984  Rémy Mertz (BEL) (1995-07-17) 17 July 1995  Maxime Monfort (BEL) (1983-01-14) 14 January 1983  Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) (1985-07-02) 2 July 1985  James Shaw (GBR) (1996-06-13) 13 June 1996  Marcel Sieberg (GER) (1982-04-30) 30 April 1982  Rafael Valls (ESP) (1987-06-27) 27 June 1987  Tosh Van der Sande (BEL) (1990-11-28) 28 November 1990  Jelle Vanendert (BEL) (1985-02-19) 19 February 1985  Louis Vervaeke (BEL) (1993-11-06) 6 November 1993  Jelle Wallays (BEL) (1989-05-11) 11 May 1989  Tim Wellens (BEL) (1991-05-10) 10 May 1991  Enzo Wouters (BEL) (1996-03-21) 21 March 1996

Major results

National champions

Notes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lotto cycling team.

• Official website
• Facebook Lotto Belisol