UAE Team Emirates

UAE Team Emirates is an Emirati road bicycle racing team. The team competes at UCI WorldTeam level and has done so since the UCI World Tour was formed as the top category of road cycling in 2005.



History
The team was temporarily suspended from the ProTour in 2010, missing one ProTour event.

Chinese involvement
In August 2016 the team (then called Lampre-Merida) confirmed that its WorldTeam licence was being transferred from CGS Cycling to Chinese company TJ Sport Consultation, with the team becoming the first Chinese WorldTour team from 2017. Former team manager Mauro Gianetti was announced as the co-ordinator for the project.

In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport the following month, Saronni confirmed that he and CGS Cycling would continue to manage the team on TJ Sport's behalf, and that the team's bicycles would be supplied by Colnago. He indicated that the project was being co-ordinated by the Chinese government via TJ Sport with involvement from a number of Chinese companies including Alibaba, and that its aim was to develop Chinese cycling and riders.

When the UCI awarded 17 WorldTour licences to teams in November, it announced that TJ Sport's application was "under review" by its Licensing Commission. According to Saronni, the reason for the delay was that the head of the TJ Sport project, Li Zhiqiang, had fallen seriously ill, which prevented funding for the project from being confirmed.

Emirati rescue
As a result, the team looked elsewhere for sponsorship, securing funding from the United Arab Emirates and changing its name to UAE Abu Dhabi. The UCI confirmed the team's WorldTour licence on 20 December. In February 2017, the team announced that airline Emirates had signed on with the team as a naming-rights sponsor. The team was subsequently known as UAE Team Emirates.

In June 2017, two days before the 2017 Tour de France the team announced it would also be sponsored by the First Abu Dhabi Bank, an amalgamation of the First Gulf Bank and the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, with their logo being added to the chest and side of the team's jersey.

National, continental, and world champions

 * 1999
 * MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Road Race, Ludo Dierckxsens


 * 2000
 * MaillotSudáfrica.PNG South African Time Trial, Robbie Hunter
 * MaillotLetonia.PNG Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks


 * 2001
 * MaillotLetonia.PNG Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks


 * 2002
 * MaillotLetonia.PNG Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks
 * MaillotLetonia.PNG Latvian Road Race, Raivis Belohvoščiks


 * 2005
 * MaillotAustria.PNG Austrian Road Race, Gerrit Glomser


 * 2006
 * Jersey italianflag.svg Italian Time Trial, Marzio Bruseghin


 * 2007
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Road Race, Tadej Valjavec


 * 2008
 * Jersey rainbow.svg World Road Race, Alessandro Ballan


 * 2011
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Road Race, Grega Bole
 * MaillotUcrania.PNG Ukrainian Road Race, Oleksandr Kvachuk
 * MaillotUcrania.PNG Ukrainian Time Trial, Oleksandr Kvachuk
 * Jersey italianflag.svg Italian Time Trial, Adriano Malori


 * 2014
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Time Trial, Nelson Oliveira
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Road Race, Nelson Oliveira


 * 2015
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Time Trial, Nelson Oliveira
 * Maillot ethiopia.png Ethiopian Road Race, Tsgabu Grmay
 * Maillot ethiopia.png Ethiopian Time Trial, Tsgabu Grmay
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Road Race, Rui Costa
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Road Race, Luka Pibernik
 * NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg Taiwanese Road Race, Feng Chun-kai
 * NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg Taiwanese Time Trial, Feng Chun-kai


 * 2017
 * UAE NC.png UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
 * UAE NC.png UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Time Trial, Jan Polanc
 * European champion jersey 2016.svg European Track (Individual pursuit), Filippo Ganna


 * 2018
 * Jersey rainbow.svg World Track (Individual pursuit), Filippo Ganna
 * UAE NC.png UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
 * UAE NC.png UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
 * MaillotNoruega.PNG Norwegian Road Race, Vegard Stake Laengen


 * 2019
 * UAE NC.png UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
 * UAE NC.png UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Time Trial, Tadej Pogačar


 * 2020
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Time Trial, Tadej Pogačar
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Time Trial, Ivo Oliveira
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Road Race, Rui Costa
 * MaillotNoruega.PNG Norwegian Road Race, Sven Erik Bystrøm
 * European champion jersey 2016.svg European Track (Individual pursuit), Ivo Oliveira


 * 2021
 * African Continental Champion Jersey.png African Time Trial, Ryan Gibbons
 * UAE NC.png UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
 * UAE NC.png UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
 * African Continental Champion Jersey.png African Road Race, Ryan Gibbons
 * MaillotSudáfrica.PNG South Africa Time Trial, Ryan Gibbons


 * 2022
 * UAE NC.png UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
 * UAE NC.png UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
 * MaillotSuiza.PNG Swiss Time Trial, Joel Suter
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Road Race, João Almeida


 * 2023
 * MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Time Trial, Jay Vine
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Time Trial, Tadej Pogačar
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Road Race, Tadej Pogačar
 * MaillotUSA.PNG American Time Trial, Brandon McNulty
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Time Trial, João Almeida
 * MaillotSuiza.PNG Swiss Road Race, Marc Hirschi


 * 2024
 * MaillotUSA.PNG American Time Trial, Brandon McNulty
 * MaillotAustria.PNG Austrian Time Trial, Felix Großschartner
 * MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Time Trial, Tim Wellens
 * MaillotAlemania.PNG German Time Trial, Nils Politt
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese Time Trial, António Morgado
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenian Road Race, Domen Novak