The Unibet Rose Rockets are a Dutch UCI ProTeam status cycling team on a French license focusing on road bicycle racing. Bas Tietema created the team in 2023. The team upgraded from UCI Continental to UCI ProTeam status in 2024.
History The main sponsor of the team is Unibet. They previously sponsored a different team in 2006/2007 (). However, owing to a dispute with major race organizers over gambling companies being sponsors they pulled out. Now with other teams having sponsors which are lotteries, Unibet decided to come back to professional cycling, although from 2028 teams sponsored by gambling companies will not be able to race in Belgium.
2023
Hugo Haak joined as Team Manager in 2023 after coaching on the Track for the past few years.
The team's calendar for 2023 consisted of mostly Belgian and Dutch races. The team's biggest victory was stage 1 of the ZLM Tour by Yentl Vandevelde. Despite this success, Vandevelde was let go by the team for 2024.
2024
They started their season with 12 new riders, and started their first race in Turkey at the Tour of Antalya where they won stage 1 with the rider Hartthijs de Vries. They then participated in their first UCI WorldTour race, the Amstel Gold Race. The team went on to win the general classification and a stage in the Oberösterreich Rundfahrt. In the summer of 2024, they rode their second UCI World Tour race the Renewi Tour, Davide Bomboi took a top 10 result. By the end of the year, the team announced that it would be renamed to Unibet Tietema Rockets and would ride on a French license from 2025 on.
2025 Results included a victory at the Cholet-Pays de la Loire by new rider Lukáš Kubiš and a victory in Paris–Camembert by Lander Lookx. The team also gained entry to larger races more frequently: their participation in cycling monument Paris-Roubaix through a wildcard was a key milestone. At the same time, the season was not without setbacks: new rider Giovanni Carboni became involved in a doping case and ultimately left the team. The team ended the year with the signings of experienced riders such as Dylan Groenewegen, Wout Poels and Victor Lafay. A partnership with Rose Bikes lead to a change in team name: from 2026, the team is named Unibet Rose Rockets.
2026 In March 2026, the team won their first UCI World Tour race, with Groenewegen winning the Tour of Bruges. The team was invited to the Giro d'Italia, but missed out on an invite to the Tour de France, despite media expectations.
Equipment The team will be using Rose Bikes in the 2026 Season.
Team roster
Major wins
2023 Stage 1 ZLM Tour, Yentl Vandevelde Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites, Hartthijs de Vries Stage 3, Tomáš Kopecký 2024 Stage 4 Tour of Antalya, Hartthijs de Vries Ster van Zwolle, Nicklas Amdi Pedersen Overall Oberösterreich Rundfahrt, Adrien Maire Stage 3, Adrien Maire 2025 Cholet Agglo Tour, Lukáš Kubiš Paris–Camembert, Lander Loockx Stage 4 International Tour of Hellas, Adrien Maire Road Race Championships, Lukáš Kubiš Stage 7 Tour de Langkawi, Zeb Kyffin 2026 Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana, Dylan Groenewegen Bredene Koksijde Classic, Dylan Groenewegen Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré, Dylan Groenewegen Tour of Bruges, Dylan Groenewegen La Roue Tourangelle, Clément Venturini
Supplementary statistics Sources:
Grand Tours by highest finishing positionRace202420252026Giro d'Italia––22Tour de France–––Vuelta a España–––Major week-long stage races by highest finishing positionRace202420252026Tour Down Under–––Paris–Nice–––Tirreno–Adriatico–––Volta a Catalunya–––Tour of the Basque Country–––Tour de Romandie–– Critérium du Dauphiné–––Tour de Suisse–– Tour de Pologne–– Renewi Tour3023 Tour of Guangxi - - Monuments by highest finishing positionMonument202420252026Milan–San Remo––50Tour of Flanders––25Paris–Roubaix–2730 Liège–Bastogne–Liège–––Il Lombardia–– Classics (1.UWT) by highest finishing positionClassic202420252026Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race–––Omloop Het Nieuwsblad–612Strade Bianche––22Tour de Bruges–131E3 Saxo Classic––28Gent–Wevelgem––19Dwars door Vlaanderen––11Amstel Gold Race554734La Flèche Wallonne––17 Eschborn–Frankfurt––31Copenhagen SprintDNE2138Clásica de San Sebastián––-Hamburg Cyclassics––16Bretagne Classic––15Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec––-Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal––-
+ Legend— Did not competeDNS Did not startDNF Did not finishDNEDid not existNH Not held
References
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