Unibet Rose Rockets

Unibet Rose Rockets

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

Unibet Rose Rockets

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

Unibet Rose Rockets

The team will be using Rose Bikes in the 2026 Season.

Team roster

Unibet Rose Rockets

	Rider	Date of birth
Ronan Augé (FRA)	29 April 2004
Joren Bloem (NED)	21 December 1999
Cedrik Bakke Christophersen (NOR)	11 December 2001
Hartthijs de Vries (NED)	11 July 1996
Odd Christian Eiking (NOR)	28 December 1994
Karsten Larsen Feldmann (NOR)	28 March 2003
Eivind Broholt Fougner (NOR)	2 March 2003
Owen Geleijn (NED)	14 January 2001
Dylan Groenewegen (NED)	21 June 1993
Jelle Johannink (NED)	22 October 1996
Tomáš Kopecký (CZE)	8 April 2000
Matyáš Kopecký (CZE)	8 April 2000
Lukáš Kubiš (SVK)	31 January 2000
Victor Lafay (FRA)	17 January 1996
Niklas Larsen (DNK)	22 March 1997
	Rider	Date of birth
Lander Loockx (BEL)	25 April 1997
Adrien Maire (FRA)	17 November 2000
Sergio Meris (ITA)	10 March 2001
Wessel Mouris (NED)	30 December 2002
Tobias Müller (GER)	31 March 2004
Jannis Peter (GER)	30 October 2000
Wout Poels (NED)	1 October 1987
Elmar Reinders (NED)	14 March 1992
Martijn Rasenberg (NED)	9 November 2001
Colin Savioz (FRA)	11 June 2004
Abram Stockman (BEL)	31 July 1996
Adam Ťoupalík (CZE)	9 May 1996
Rory Townsend (IRL)	30 June 1995
Clément Venturini (FRA)	16 October 1993
Killian Verschuren (FRA)	20 October 2002

Major wins

Supplementary statistics

<table><thead><tr><th>Grand Tours by highest finishing position</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Race</td><td>2024</td><td>2025</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>Giro d'Italia</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tour de France</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Vuelta a España</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Major week-long stage races by highest finishing position</td></tr><tr><td>Race</td><td>2024</td><td>2025</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>Tour Down Under</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Paris–Nice</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Tirreno–Adriatico</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Volta a Catalunya</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Tour of the Basque Country</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Tour de Romandie</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Critérium du Dauphiné</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Tour de Suisse</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tour de Pologne</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Renewi Tour</td><td>30</td><td>23</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Monuments by highest finishing position</td></tr><tr><td>Monument</td><td>2024</td><td>2025</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>Milan–San Remo</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>50</td></tr><tr><td>Tour of Flanders</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Paris–Roubaix</td><td>–</td><td>27</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Liège–Bastogne–Liège</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>–</td></tr><tr><td>Il Lombardia</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Classics by highest finishing position</td></tr><tr><td>Classic</td><td>2024</td><td>2025</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>Omloop Het Nieuwsblad</td><td>–</td><td>6</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne</td><td>–</td><td>9</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Strade Bianche</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>E3 Saxo Classic</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td>Gent–Wevelgem</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>Amstel Gold Race</td><td>55</td><td>47</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>La Flèche Wallonne</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Clásica de San Sebastián</td><td>–</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Paris–Tours</td><td>–</td><td>14</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

—	Did not compete
DNS	Did not start
DNF	Did not finish
NH	Not held