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The 2013 IAM Cycling season was the first season of the team, which was founded at the end of 2012. The team competed on the UCI Professional Continental level. They began the season on 27 January at the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, and finished in October at the 2013 Giro di Lombardia. The team participated in UCI Continental Circuits and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation.

Pre-season
The team was officially launched in January 2013. IAM Cycling joined the Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible at the end of 2012. IAM Cycling was selected as a wild-card entry for the 2013 Paris-Nice race.

Team roster
Ages as of January 1, 2013

Spring classics
The teams first ever race was the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise on 27 January, where Wyss and Brändle both finished with the bunch. At the 1.2 race Tour de Berne IAM had five people in the top ten, with Marcel Wyss winning the race 13 seconds ahead of Sébastien Reichenbach and 15 seconds ahead of Rémi Cusin and Matthias Brändle. Reto Hollenstein finished sixth.

Stage races
The 2013 Tour of Qatar was the teams first ever stage race. Martin Elminger finished second on the first stage, but lost his place in the general classification the next day. Heinrich Haussler finished fifth on stage three and ninth on stage five. The team did well at the Tour Méditerranéen in February, with Matteo Pelucchi finishing second on the first stage, letting him ride in the white jersey on stage two as the leader of the young rider classification. Thomas Löfkvist finished fourth on the second stage, and sixth on stage four which placed him in the green points jersey and only two seconds behind leader Maxime Monfort of. On the final stage Löfkvist lost the points jersey to Jürgen Roelandts of but took over the lead and won the overall classification. Gustav Larsson finished eight and Stefan Denifl eleventh overall, and IAM won the teams classification ahead of. circuit de la s

Grand Tours
As an UCI Professional Continental team IAM Cycling was not automatically granted the right to participate in any of the three Grand Tours. The team was considered by race organiser Amaury Sport Organisation for a Tour de France invitation, but ultimately was not invited. They did not receive an invitation to the Giro d'Italia or the Vuelta a España either, but were invited to Milan – San Remo and Il Lombardia by Giro race organizer RCS Sport instead.

Season victories

 * 1st MaillotAustria.PNG National Time Trial Championships, Matthias Brändle
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG National Time Trial Championships, Gustav Larsson
 * 1st MaillotLetonia.PNG National Road Race Championships, Aleksejs Saramotins