An overview of what we know so far about how the women’s domestic road race teams are shaping up for 2027. A similar overview for men’s domestic teams will follow.
This is a ‘live’ post, so expect frequent updates, especially in these early weeks — this is very much a work in progress, so check back in regularly to see all the latest. Individual moves are also listed as they are confirmed on Mercato 2027, our rider moves and transfers tracker, and rounded up regularly in Mercato.
If you have team, rider or transfer news, drop us a line: info@thebritishcontinental.co.uk.
Featured image: Milan Josy/The British Continental
UCI Continental teams
Four British women’s teams held UCI Continental licences in 2026. One of them, DAS–Hutchinson, will not hold one in 2027, which leaves three if the others all continue. Britain had a record six as recently as 2024. UCI registrations for 2027 are confirmed in December.
CAMS Alba
The Scottish team will race as CAMS Alba in 2027 after CAMS, the cycling accident management company, was announced as its new headline sponsor on 5 October. It has raced as Handsling Alba Development Road Team for the past two seasons.
DAS–Hutchinson will close its UCI Continental team at the end of 2026, seven weeks after Morven Yeoman won the National Road Series and the Rapha Super-League in its colours. The team said the cost of running a competitive Continental programme had risen significantly, particularly through European racing and travel, and that maintaining it at the standard its riders and staff deserve had become increasingly difficult. Simon Howes, its co-owner, called it “an incredibly difficult decision”.
It is the team the rest of the domestic scene measured itself against, and it leaves having won the National Road Series team title in every edition since 2019. This is not a complete exit, though: the statement was explicit that it is not the end of Team OnForm, the development programme the Continental squad grew out of, which raced this season as Brother UK–Team OnForm under Mark Botteley and will continue. Its riders now need new teams.
Run by Pat Hayes, the team began in 2021 and raced as AWOL O’Shea, Doltcini O’Shea and CJ O’Shea before taking its current name in 2026 through a title partnership with the Devon-based bike brand, agreed for at least two years. The UCI Continental squad has a multi-national roster and races a blended UK and European calendar.
Managed by Rick Lister, the UCI Continental team raced as Pro-Noctis until 2024 and goes into 2027 in the third year of the three-year title sponsorship it agreed with the packaging company Smurfit Westrock. It has turned increasingly towards an international calendar and an international roster.
The development programme that the DAS–Hutchinson Continental squad grew out of, and the part of that operation that carries on after the Continental team closes at the end of 2026. It raced in 2026 as Brother UK–Team OnForm, a British Cycling Elite Development Team run by Mark Botteley.
For 2027 it has a new headline sponsor in Duckworth Motor Group, a family-owned motor group with Range Rover, Defender and Discovery showrooms in Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Announcing the sponsorship on 6 October, the team said the backing would allow it to keep supporting its junior and under-23 riders on a UK and European calendar. It also said there would be new team management for 2027, without giving details.
FTP–Fulfil The Potential Racing have named a 15-rider squad for 2027. The South West-based Elite Development Team finished 4th in the 2026 National Road Series team standings on a budget that team manager Billy Oliver put at under £15,000. Oliver told us the series remains the priority for 2027, alongside six trips to Belgium and a return to Rás na mBan, and that the team has no plans to become a UCI team.
The squad brings together two of the top four from the 2026 National Road Series. Ruby Oakes, who finished 3rd, was the first rider Oliver confirmed for 2027, and she is joined by Amy Henchoz, 4th in the series for Paralloy RT. Oliver said Henchoz, who guested for FTP at Rás na mBan, had also spoken to UCI teams before choosing his, and that her arrival gives the team more tactical options after a season in which Oakes was often marked quickly when she tried to get into breaks. Sannah Zaman steps down from UCI Continental level at O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes, wanting, Oliver said, a programme built around the series. Rebecca Woodvine, a 20-year-old under-23, follows Henchoz from Paralloy RT, and Rosie Wayland, who rode for FTP from 2023 to 2025, returns after a season away. The other 11 riders are retained from 2026, among them the reigning national hill climb champion Rachel Galler, and Oliver said keeping the team together was what he was proudest of this year.
Read about three of its riders at the Philadelphia Cycling Classic here.
Paralloy RT will close at the end of 2026. The North East Elite Development Team raced for eight seasons as Team Boompods before rebranding this year, and Nikki Metcalfe, who took it on in 2018, set out to us the personal and financial cost of keeping a development team alive, and why she is stepping away before the enjoyment disappears. Its riders are on the market.
The two closures came within two days of each other, and they sat on different rungs of the same ladder: in April, Katie Scott won the East Cleveland Classic for Paralloy and within days had stepped up to DAS–Hutchinson.
The under-23 development team set up in 2024 by former Bianchi Dama team manager David Walters, and the first British domestic team to announce signings for 2027. Britain’s only dedicated under-23 women’s squad races a European-heavy calendar, much of it in Belgium, and has a formal link with the Liv CC–Halo Films junior programme.
A women-led team founded by Christine White, a directeur sportif and sport scientist, which launched for the 2026 season with a model that pairs national-level racing with the longer-term development of both riders and staff. At launch it set out an ambition to reach UCI Continental status within three years.
The newest arrival on this page, and the one filling a gap rather than competing for riders in an existing one. The south London club, based at Herne Hill Velodrome, is building a junior and under-23 women’s race team for 2027, run by women’s team manager Mark Unsworth, who spent the summer going through British Cycling results to work out what happens to female youth riders when they leave youth racing. Expressions of interest close on 31 October, so the squad is not yet known.
The club has form at this end of the sport without having had a team to keep riders in. Aalia Clay, the world junior time trial bronze medallist, came through the VC Londres youth ranks before joining camsmajaco, and her younger sister Yamina goes the same way for 2027.
Image: Mark James
In:Recruiting. Expressions of interest close 31 October.
Other elite teams to follow: 360cycling, Draft Racing, Jadan Vive le Velo, London Academy, Loughborough Lightning, Solas Race Team.
Junior teams
camsmajaco
The mixed-gender junior super-team formed for 2026 by the merger of Fensham Howes–MAS Design and Tofauti Everyone Active Majaco, led by Ian Mansel-Thomas and Giles Pidcock, with backing from the INEOS WorldTeam and a heavily international calendar. Only the junior women are covered here; the eight-rider junior men’s squad will appear in the men’s guide.
The 2027 junior women’s squad is seven riders, down from the 10 the team launched with in February. Mansel-Thomas put the reduction down to the UCI’s reformatting of the Junior Road Nations Cup, which limits entry to national and regional teams from 2027 and so shuts trade teams out. He said the change makes a big difference to the junior women’s calendar, where top-level opportunities are already thin, and very little to the men’s.
Other junior teams to follow: 360cycling, Liv CC–Halo Films, Shibden Apex RT, Solas Race Team. VC Londres will run a junior squad alongside its under-23 team; see above.
An overview of what we know so far about how the women’s domestic road race teams are shaping up for 2027. A similar overview for men’s domestic teams will follow.
This is a ‘live’ post, so expect frequent updates, especially in these early weeks — this is very much a work in progress, so check back in regularly to see all the latest. Individual moves are also listed as they are confirmed on Mercato 2027, our rider moves and transfers tracker, and rounded up regularly in Mercato.
If you have team, rider or transfer news, drop us a line: info@thebritishcontinental.co.uk.
Last updated: 14.59, 10 October 2026
Featured image: Milan Josy/The British Continental
UCI Continental teams
Four British women’s teams held UCI Continental licences in 2026. One of them, DAS–Hutchinson, will not hold one in 2027, which leaves three if the others all continue. Britain had a record six as recently as 2024. UCI registrations for 2027 are confirmed in December.
CAMS Alba
The Scottish team will race as CAMS Alba in 2027 after CAMS, the cycling accident management company, was announced as its new headline sponsor on 5 October. It has raced as Handsling Alba Development Road Team for the past two seasons.
Read our interview with Bob Lyons here.
More to follow.
Unknown: Arabella Blackburn, Madeline Cooper, Anna Flynn, Eluned King, Madelaine Leech, Grace Lister, Beth Morrow, Mari Porton, Holly Ramsey, Kate Richardson, Izzy Sharp
Out: Neah Evans, Arianne Holland, Amelia Tyler
DAS–Hutchinson
DAS–Hutchinson will close its UCI Continental team at the end of 2026, seven weeks after Morven Yeoman won the National Road Series and the Rapha Super-League in its colours. The team said the cost of running a competitive Continental programme had risen significantly, particularly through European racing and travel, and that maintaining it at the standard its riders and staff deserve had become increasingly difficult. Simon Howes, its co-owner, called it “an incredibly difficult decision”.
It is the team the rest of the domestic scene measured itself against, and it leaves having won the National Road Series team title in every edition since 2019. This is not a complete exit, though: the statement was explicit that it is not the end of Team OnForm, the development programme the Continental squad grew out of, which raced this season as Brother UK–Team OnForm under Mark Botteley and will continue. Its riders now need new teams.
Out: Mieke Docx, Tiffany Keep, Josie Knight, Lucy Lee, Sophie Lewis, Alice McWilliam, Tamsin Miller, Aoife O’Brien, Ellie Parry, Aliyah Rafferty, Katie Scott, Libby Smithson, Noémie Thomson, Meike Uiterwijk Winkel, Julia Van Bokhoven, Anne van Rooijen, Morven Yeoman. None has announced a 2027 team.
O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes
Run by Pat Hayes, the team began in 2021 and raced as AWOL O’Shea, Doltcini O’Shea and CJ O’Shea before taking its current name in 2026 through a title partnership with the Devon-based bike brand, agreed for at least two years. The UCI Continental squad has a multi-national roster and races a blended UK and European calendar.
More to follow.
Unknown: Charlotte Broughton-Kulset, Mathilde Cramer, Isabella Escalera, Connie Hayes, Ida Krickau Ketelsen, Karlijn Koops, Isabel Mayes, Matilda McKibben, Maeve Plouffe, Cindy Pomares, Kaia Schmid, Evie Smith, Yilla Threels, Yuli van der Molen, Ella Wahlström, Grace Ward
Out: Maaike Brandwagt (Smurfit Westrock Cycling Team), Maurène Trégouët (Tenvels Le Dévoluy), Sannah Zaman (FTP–Fulfil The Potential Racing)
Smurfit Westrock Cycling Team
Managed by Rick Lister, the UCI Continental team raced as Pro-Noctis until 2024 and goes into 2027 in the third year of the three-year title sponsorship it agreed with the packaging company Smurfit Westrock. It has turned increasingly towards an international calendar and an international roster.
Read our interview with Rick Lister here.
More to follow.
In: Maaike Brandwagt (O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes), Maeve Gallagher (Castlebar CC), Ruby Isaac (camsmajaco)
Re-signed: Amelia Cebak, Lidia Cusack, Jo Tindley
Unknown: Teniel Campbell, Alice Colling, Elena Day, Paquita Derie, Lucy Ellmore, Lucy Glover, S’Annara Grove, Leila Gschwentner, Cassidy Hickey, Annabel Ramsay, Kirstie Van Haaften, Cecilia Van Zuthem, Elisa Winter
Elite teams
Duckworth Motor Group–On Form
The development programme that the DAS–Hutchinson Continental squad grew out of, and the part of that operation that carries on after the Continental team closes at the end of 2026. It raced in 2026 as Brother UK–Team OnForm, a British Cycling Elite Development Team run by Mark Botteley.
For 2027 it has a new headline sponsor in Duckworth Motor Group, a family-owned motor group with Range Rover, Defender and Discovery showrooms in Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Announcing the sponsorship on 6 October, the team said the backing would allow it to keep supporting its junior and under-23 riders on a UK and European calendar. It also said there would be new team management for 2027, without giving details.
More to follow.
In: Esmee Bone (Team Ohten), Lily-Ann Scott (Shibden Apex RT), Eleanor Thompson (Team Ohten), Grace Upshall (Shibden Apex RT)
Re-signed: Luned Budge, Abi Clayton, Katie Colling, Isabelle Goodwin, Ava Luce, Florence Wood, Izabel Young
Unknown: Ellen Bennett, Sian Botteley, Rebecca Carter, Lotty Dawson, Emily Day, Bethany Goodwin, Caitlin Harvey, Cecilia Hime, Ellen Inglis, Amber Junker-Brameld, Eleina McFadden, Ellie Mitchinson, Lucy Neatham, Anna Patterson, Francesca Ryde, Mia Smith, Stella Smith, Amelia Staunton
FTP–Fulfil The Potential Racing
FTP–Fulfil The Potential Racing have named a 15-rider squad for 2027. The South West-based Elite Development Team finished 4th in the 2026 National Road Series team standings on a budget that team manager Billy Oliver put at under £15,000. Oliver told us the series remains the priority for 2027, alongside six trips to Belgium and a return to Rás na mBan, and that the team has no plans to become a UCI team.
The squad brings together two of the top four from the 2026 National Road Series. Ruby Oakes, who finished 3rd, was the first rider Oliver confirmed for 2027, and she is joined by Amy Henchoz, 4th in the series for Paralloy RT. Oliver said Henchoz, who guested for FTP at Rás na mBan, had also spoken to UCI teams before choosing his, and that her arrival gives the team more tactical options after a season in which Oakes was often marked quickly when she tried to get into breaks. Sannah Zaman steps down from UCI Continental level at O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes, wanting, Oliver said, a programme built around the series. Rebecca Woodvine, a 20-year-old under-23, follows Henchoz from Paralloy RT, and Rosie Wayland, who rode for FTP from 2023 to 2025, returns after a season away. The other 11 riders are retained from 2026, among them the reigning national hill climb champion Rachel Galler, and Oliver said keeping the team together was what he was proudest of this year.
Read about three of its riders at the Philadelphia Cycling Classic here.
In: Amy Henchoz (Paralloy RT), Rosie Wayland (unattached), Rebecca Woodvine (Paralloy RT), Sannah Zaman (O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes)
Re-signed: Rebecca Babbage, Anna Boniface, Anastasia Bowler, Charlotte Deykin, Caitlin Dimbleby, Rachel Galler, Emma Leslie, Jessica Morrish, Claire Nott, Ruby Oakes, Phoebe Roche
Out: Teri Bayliss, Carys Blowers, Ella Brown, Kayla Dinnin, Harriet Evans, Elektra Georgiakakis, Gemma Mitchell
Paralloy RT
Paralloy RT will close at the end of 2026. The North East Elite Development Team raced for eight seasons as Team Boompods before rebranding this year, and Nikki Metcalfe, who took it on in 2018, set out to us the personal and financial cost of keeping a development team alive, and why she is stepping away before the enjoyment disappears. Its riders are on the market.
The two closures came within two days of each other, and they sat on different rungs of the same ladder: in April, Katie Scott won the East Cleveland Classic for Paralloy and within days had stepped up to DAS–Hutchinson.
Out: Jihanna Bonilla-Allard, Katie-Anne Calton, Abi Conway, Chloe Elvin, Bea Ferry, Amy Henchoz (FTP–Fulfil The Potential Racing), Pippa Inderwick, Freya Johnson, Lili-Keau Juntakereket, Joanne Rea, Millie Skinner, Rebecca Woodvine (FTP–Fulfil The Potential Racing). None of the other 10 has announced a 2027 team. Katie Scott also rode for the team until April, when she moved up to DAS–Hutchinson.
Simpson Nouvelles
The under-23 development team set up in 2024 by former Bianchi Dama team manager David Walters, and the first British domestic team to announce signings for 2027. Britain’s only dedicated under-23 women’s squad races a European-heavy calendar, much of it in Belgium, and has a formal link with the Liv CC–Halo Films junior programme.
More to follow.
In: Megan Cherry (camsmajaco), Áine Doherty (Dan Morrissey Primór by Pissei)
Re-signed: To follow.
Unknown: Erin Avill, Nicole Duncan, Bethany Jackson, Danielle Khan, Greta Lawless, Megan Lloyd, Abby McLain, Isabella Newell, Amelia Sykes, Ella Tandy, Bee Townsend, Alisha Wells, Freya Whiteside
Out: To follow.
The Hera Project
A women-led team founded by Christine White, a directeur sportif and sport scientist, which launched for the 2026 season with a model that pairs national-level racing with the longer-term development of both riders and staff. At launch it set out an ambition to reach UCI Continental status within three years.
Read about the team’s launch here.
More to follow.
In: Millie Salmon (Grouwels Watersley R&D Cycling Team)
Re-signed: To follow.
Unknown: Jess Atherton, Hannah Bayes, Eleanor Dixon, Olivia French, Sophie Holmes, Lucy Nelson, Amy Scott, Daisy Taylor
Out: To follow.
VC Londres
The newest arrival on this page, and the one filling a gap rather than competing for riders in an existing one. The south London club, based at Herne Hill Velodrome, is building a junior and under-23 women’s race team for 2027, run by women’s team manager Mark Unsworth, who spent the summer going through British Cycling results to work out what happens to female youth riders when they leave youth racing. Expressions of interest close on 31 October, so the squad is not yet known.
The club has form at this end of the sport without having had a team to keep riders in. Aalia Clay, the world junior time trial bronze medallist, came through the VC Londres youth ranks before joining camsmajaco, and her younger sister Yamina goes the same way for 2027.
In: Recruiting. Expressions of interest close 31 October.
Other elite teams to follow: 360cycling, Draft Racing, Jadan Vive le Velo, London Academy, Loughborough Lightning, Solas Race Team.
Junior teams
camsmajaco
The mixed-gender junior super-team formed for 2026 by the merger of Fensham Howes–MAS Design and Tofauti Everyone Active Majaco, led by Ian Mansel-Thomas and Giles Pidcock, with backing from the INEOS WorldTeam and a heavily international calendar. Only the junior women are covered here; the eight-rider junior men’s squad will appear in the men’s guide.
The 2027 junior women’s squad is seven riders, down from the 10 the team launched with in February. Mansel-Thomas put the reduction down to the UCI’s reformatting of the Junior Road Nations Cup, which limits entry to national and regional teams from 2027 and so shuts trade teams out. He said the change makes a big difference to the junior women’s calendar, where top-level opportunities are already thin, and very little to the men’s.
In: Millie Boothman (Glasgow Riderz), Yamina Clay (VC Londres), Katie Robertson (Clifton CC)
Re-signed: Aalia Clay, Emer Heverin, Rose Lewis, Eloise Ward
Out: Megan Cherry (Simpson Nouvelles), Ruby Isaac (Smurfit Westrock Cycling Team), Gabriella McHugh (AG Insurance–Soudal Devo Team), Zoe Roche (Decathlon CMA CGM, reported), Melanie Rowe (left mid-season), Seren Thomas
Other junior teams to follow: 360cycling, Liv CC–Halo Films, Shibden Apex RT, Solas Race Team. VC Londres will run a junior squad alongside its under-23 team; see above.
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