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.
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History
The main sponsor of the team is Unibet. They previously sponsored a different team in 2006/2007 (Unibet.com). 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
As of 16 March 2026.
Major wins
Supplementary statistics
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