Lotto Soudal

This article deals with Lotto Soudal in men's cycling, to be distinguished from the women's team Lotto Soudal Ladies .

Lotto Soudal
Team data
UCI code	LTS
nationality	Belgium
License	UCI WorldTeam
operator	Belgian Cycling Project
First season	2012
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Ridley
General manager	John Lelangue
Sportl. ladder	Mario Aerts Herman Frison Bart Leysen Kurt Van De Wouwer Marc Wauters Frederik Willems
Name story
Years	Surname
2012 2013–2014 2015–	Lotto Belisol Team Lotto Belisol Lotto Soudal
Website
lottosoudal.be

Lotto-Soudal is a Belgian cycling team based in Herentals . The main sponsors are the Belgian lottery Lotto and the Soudal company . Lotto was previously a sponsor of the Omega Pharma Lotto team.

organization

Since the two main sponsors of the Omega Pharma Lotto team could not agree on a common strategy for the future, the joint commitment ended at the end of 2011. Lotto and its co-sponsors, who are also focused on the Belgian market, wanted an almost exclusively Belgian drive Put together a ProTeam . Although this team took over a large part of the sporting management and driver base of Omega Pharma-Lotto , it was not managed by its operating company Belgian Cycling Company SA and did not take over the existing ProTeam license, but was licensed by the UCI as a new team. As with the Rabobank team, a Continental team with the same name should take over the work for the young. Here, too, priority, if not exclusively, young Belgian talent should be promoted.

The Belgian Marc Sergeant , who previously worked in the same role at Omega Pharma-Lotto , has become the team manager. He is supported by two sporting directors who will also come from Omega Pharma-Lotto. The names are Herman Frison , who has been with the Lotto team since 1993, and Mario Aerts , who ended his active career at the end of 2011 and has been working with Marc Sergeant since 1998.

At the end of 2012, the team joined the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible .

2020 season

Success in the UCI WorldTour

date	run	driver
22nd of January	2nd stage Tour Down Under	Caleb Ewan
January 24th	4th stage Tour Down Under	Caleb Ewan
January 26th	6th stage Tour Down Under	Matthew Holmes
February 24th	2nd stage UAE Tour	Caleb Ewan

Success in the UCI ProSeries

date	run	driver
August 16	1st stage Tour de Wallonie	Caleb Ewan

Success in the UCI Continental Circuits

date	run	Cat.	driver
29th August	3a. Stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes	2.1	Sander Armée

team

Team roster
Surname	Date of birth	country	Previous team
Sander Armée	December 10, 1985	Belgium	Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (2013)
Steff Cras	February 13, 1996	Belgium	Katusha-Alpecin (2019)
Jasper De Buyst	November 24, 1993	Belgium	Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (2014)
Thomas De Gendt	November 6, 1986	Belgium	Omega Pharma - Quick Step (2014)
John Degenkolb	January 7, 1989	Germany	Trek-Segafredo (2019)
Stan Dewulf	December 20, 1997	Belgium
Jonathan Dibben	February 12, 1994	United Kingdom
Caleb Ewan	July 11, 1994	Australia	Mitchelton-Scott (2018)
Frederik Frison	July 28, 1992	Belgium	Lotto-Soudal U23 (2015)
Philippe Gilbert	5th July 1982	Belgium	Deceuninck-Quick-Step (2019)
Kobe Goossens	April 29, 1996	Belgium	Lotto-Soudal U23 (2019)
Carl Fredrik Hagen	September 26, 1991	Norway	Joker Icopal (2018)
Adam Hansen	May 11, 1981	Australia	HTC-Columbia (2010)
Matthew Holmes	December 8, 1993	United Kingdom	Madison Genesis (2019)
Rasmus Byriel Iversen	September 16, 1997	Denmark	General Store Bottoli Zardini (2018)
Roger Kluge	5th February 1986	Germany	Mitchelton-Scott (2018)
Nikolas Maes	April 9, 1986	Belgium	Etixx-Quick Step (2016)
Tomasz Marczyński	March 6, 1984	Poland	Torku Şekerspor (2015)
Remy Mertz	July 17, 1995	Belgium	Color Code-Arden'Beef (2016)
Stefano Oldani	January 10, 1998	Italy	Kometa (2019)
Tanning Thijssen	June 21, 1998	Belgium
Tosh Van der Sande	November 28, 1990	Belgium	Omega Pharma Lotto Davo (2011)
Brian van Goethem	April 16, 1991	Netherlands	Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij (2018)
Brent Van Moer	January 12, 1998	Belgium
Harm Vanhoucke	June 17, 1997	Belgium
Florian Vermeersch (Jul 1 - Dec 31)	March 12, 1999	Belgium
Jelle Wallays	May 11, 1989	Belgium	Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (2015)
Tim Wellens	May 10, 1991	Belgium
Source: UCI

Placements in UCI rankings

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
UCI World Tour 2012	11.	Jurgen Van Den Broeck (13th)
UCI World Tour 2013	18th	André Greipel (37.)
UCI World Tour 2014	15th	Tim Wellens (25.)
UCI World Tour 2015	9.	André Greipel (24.)
UCI WorldTour 2016	14th	Tim Wellens (35.)
UCI WorldTour 2017	13.	Tim Wellens (21.)
UCI WorldTour 2018	15th	Tim Wellens (18th)
UCI world rankings 2019	9.	Tim Wellens (17th)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ velonation.com of November 8, 2011: Lotto Cycling Project secures Belisol as co-sponsor for three years
2. ↑ velonation.com of August 6, 2011: Lotto looks to build a similar set up to Rabobank
3. ↑ radsport-news.com from June 16, 2011: Van den Broeck signs with the new lottery team
4. ↑ radsport-news.com November 9th: Lotto Belisol joins movement for credible cycling

Web links

• Official website (Dutch, French, English)
• Lotto Soudal in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Lotto Soudal in the UCI database