Astana Qazaqstan Team is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana attained UCI ProTeam status in its inaugural year, 2007. Following a major doping scandal involving Kazakh rider Alexander Vinokourov, team management was terminated and new management brought in for the 2008 season. The team was then managed by Johan Bruyneel, former team manager of U.S. Postal/Discovery Channel team. Under Bruyneel the ethical nature of the team did not improve, although Astana in this period was very successful.
Fassa Bortolo (2000–2005) was a professional road bicycle racing team founded in 2000 and led by Giancarlo Ferretti. Dubbed the 'Silver Team', it managed to be one of the most successful teams of the era, not in the least due to top sprinter Alessandro Petacchi. In its six competitive years, Fassa Bortolo won over 200 races, including stages in all three Grand Tours. It was one of the inaugural 20 UCI ProTour teams in 2005.
Cannondale Pro Cycling Team, previously known as Liquigas, was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour.
Team Milram was a German pro cycling team, participating at the UCI ProTour.
Serhiy Gonchar is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He won the World Time Trial Championship in 2000. Due to a temporary spelling error in his passport, he is often incorrectly called Honchar.
Andriy Askoldovich Hrivko is a Ukrainian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018. Since retiring from racing, Hrivko currently serves as the president of the Ukrainian Cycling Federation.
Matej Jurčo is a Slovak former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2015. He is the son of Milan Jurčo, who was also a professional cyclist.
Mercatone Uno–Scanavino is a former professional cycling team which was based in San Marino and then in Italy. Throughout the 1990s it was one of the strongest Italian cycling teams in the peloton. The team was sponsored by a chain of supermarkets in Italy.
Marco Velo is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer.
Vera Carrara is an Italian professional racing cyclist.
Vini Zabù was an Italian UCI ProTeam that existed from 2009 until 2021.
Milan Jurčo is a Czechoslovak former professional road bicycle racer. He is the father of Matej Jurčo, who is also professional cyclist.
Manuel Belletti is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Eolo–Kometa. He took a total of 21 professional wins during his career, nine of them on Italian soil.
Mattia Cattaneo is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step. As an amateur, Cattaneo won the Girobio in 2011 for the U.C. Trevigiani–Dynamon–Bottoli team. Professional since 2013, he took his first pro win on stage 3 of the 2017 Tour La Provence. In 2019 he won the Giro dell'Appennino one-day race. A strong time trialist, he won the stage four time trial of the 2021 Tour de Luxembourg and the six time trial of the 2023 Tour de Pologne.
Dukla Banská Bystrica is a Continental cycling team founded in 2004. It is based in Slovakia and it participates in UCI Continental Circuits races. Peter Sagan and Peter Velits were also part of the team.
The 2014 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
This season was sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna group as well as Air Astana, Astana Motors and Expo 2017.
Trevigiani Phonix–Hemus 1896 was a Bulgarian UCI Continental team active from 2014 to 2018. It was based in Italy from 2014 to 2016.
Team MBH Bank Colpack Ballan is an Italian cycling team based in Bergamo, Italy.
