An overview of what we know so far about how the men’s domestic road race teams are shaping up for 2027. A similar overview for women’s teams can be found here.
This is a ‘live’ post, so expect frequent updates, especially in these early weeks. It 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: 12.47, 8 November 2026
| Team | Confirmed | Out | Pending | Last move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INEOS Grenadiers Racing Academy | 1 | 1 | 11 | 23 Oct |
| 360cycling | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 Nov |
| Aero CLCTV | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 Nov |
| BCC–MyPad | 1 | 0 | 10 | 9 Sep |
| Cycling Sheffield | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 Nov |
| DAS Richardsons | 0 | 1 | 15 | 23 Oct |
| Draft Racing | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 Nov |
| Halesowen A & CC | 3 | 0 | 13 | 8 Oct |
| JAKROO Handsling Racing | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Moonglu Spatzwear RT | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 Oct |
| Nopinz RT | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 Nov |
| O’Neills Spirit Racing Team | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 Nov |
| Prologue Racing Team | 11 | 3 | 0 | 5 Nov |
| Pronto Bikes Race Team | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 Nov |
| RideRevolution Coaching CT | 4 | 3 | 17 | 8 Nov |
| Schils–Doltcini RT | 1 | 1 | 35 | 4 Nov |
| Stolen Goat 4Endurance | 10 | 5 | 0 | 23 Oct |
| TAAP Kalas RT | 0 | 1 | 17 | 8 Oct |
| Team PB Performance | 1 | 0 | 15 | 20 Oct |
| Team Tactic U23 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 Nov |
| Wold Top Pactimo RT | 16 | 1 | 0 | 7 Nov |
| Zappi Racing Team | 9 | 0 | 10 | 29 Oct |
| camsmajaco | 8 | 7 | 0 | 8 Nov |
| Harrogate Nova Race Team | 10 | 4 | 0 | 11 Oct |
| Lee Valley Youth CC | 11 | 10 | 0 | 29 Oct |
| Prologue Racing Team (juniors) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 Nov |
| Shibden Apex RT | 0 | 2 | 3 | 15 Oct |
| Watts Occurring Racing | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 Oct |
No news yet: Edinburgh Bike Fitting RT, Foran CT, Primo RT, and Wheelbase CabTech Castelli (elite). Halesowen A & CC’s juniors are in its main entry, Jody Mills’s step-up from Zappi Junior Race Team is in Zappi Racing Team’s, and Harper Johnson’s move from 360cycling’s junior team is in 360cycling’s.
UCI Continental teams
Britain had six men’s UCI Continental teams in 2019 and none at all in 2025, after Saint Piran and TRINITY Racing closed at the end of 2024. The INEOS Grenadiers Racing Academy restored one for 2026. RideRevolution Coaching CT intend to step up in 2028 and will treat 2027 as a transition year (see below), but no other British men’s team has announced a move to Continental level for next season. UCI registrations for 2027 are confirmed in December.
INEOS Grenadiers Racing Academy
UCI Continental · 1 confirmed · 1 out · 11 not yet confirmed · last move 23 October
The development squad of the WorldTeam now racing as Netcompany INEOS, launched for 2026 and overseen by director of racing Geraint Thomas. It holds a British-registered UCI Continental licence, the first since 2024, and mixes British riders with an international intake. Mattie Dodd has been writing about its first season in his journal for us.
The cycling journalist Daniel Benson reported on 29 September that Kash Adamski, an American, is joining from Hot Tubes, the US junior team INEOS works with; the team has not yet confirmed it. Benson’s other report, that Nicolas Milesi was leaving, is now official: EF Education–EasyPost has signed the Italian, the under-23 time trial silver medallist at this year’s world championships in Montréal, through 2029.
Read Mattie Dodd’s journal from the Tour de l’Avenir here.
In: Kash Adamski (Hot Tubes Development Cycling Team, reported)
Not yet confirmed: Hugo Boucher, Josh Charlton, Mattie Dodd, Davide Frigo, Max Hinds, Milkias Maekele, Fletcher Medway, Cameron Rogers, Dylan Sage, Max Standen, Theodor Storm
Out: Nicolas Milesi (EF Education-EasyPost)
Elite teams
Eight men’s teams held British Cycling Elite Development Team status in 2026: BCC Race Team, Cycling Sheffield, DAS Richardsons, JAKROO Handsling Racing, O’Neills Spirit Racing Team, Stolen Goat 4Endurance, Team PB Performance and Wheelbase CabTech Castelli. The 2027 list has not yet been announced.
360cycling
Elite · 2 out · 12 not yet confirmed · last move 4 November
360cycling, a cycling brand in Bury founded by Simon Diggins and Joe Cadwallader, runs men’s, women’s, and junior teams. Its under-23 men’s team, covered here, is directed by Josh Whitehead, the 2021 Lancaster Grand Prix winner, who became its sports director after his own racing career ended in 2025. In May the team spent a month racing in Europe, ending at the UCI Paris–Troyes one-day race. Its junior team has not announced its 2027 squad.
Cai Curtis-Roberts has joined the French club CC Villeneuve Saint-Germain for 2027, and Harper Johnson, who rode for the junior team this year, joins RideRevolution Coaching CT. The team has not announced anything else about 2027.
Not yet confirmed: Luke Brennan, Ben Etherington, Ted Harvey, Liam Hewitt, Elliott Holt, Henry Hunter, James Ingham, Jake Lunt, Daniel Saba, Jago Sadler, Alexander Sutton, Xavier Teece-Round
Out: Cai Curtis-Roberts (CC Villeneuve Saint-Germain), Harper Johnson (RideRevolution Coaching CT)
Aero CLCTV
Elite · 12 confirmed · 4 out · squad announced · last move 2 November
The rider-led collective founded by Elliott Colyer, whom we profiled in September 2025 and who wrote for us in July on the incentives British Cycling’s points system creates. Colyer won the Totnes–Vire Two-Day this season, and Archie Wright finished 3rd overall at the Clive Tiley Memorial in August after leading by nearly two minutes at the end of the first day. The team was 10th in The British Continental’s team rankings, and ran the Royal Navy Cup and the ZigZag Hill Climb.
For 2027, the team’s second season, the squad doubles to 12 riders, with a team car, a squad at every National Road Series round with entries and accommodation paid for, and more racing in Belgium and France. It will not apply for Elite Development Team status. Sam Nisbet, 4th at the Peak 2 Day, and Archie Peet, the 2025 BUCS road race champion, lead nine signings that also include George King, a 33-year-old former distance runner who has never ridden a bunch race. Matt Downie becomes team manager and directeur sportif while continuing to race, and co-founder Alex Stanley has stepped away. Colyer expects 2027 to cost £50,000 or more, against £27,446 this year by the team’s own estimate.
In: Joe Bearman (League-Fortè Chiropractic), Patrick Crump (unattached, formerly Charlotteville CC), Max Duckworth (O’Neills Spirit Racing Team), Josh Hall (Nopinz RT), George King (Velo Club Venta), Nick Makin (Mid Devon CC), Sam Nisbet (Team Tactic U23), Archie Peet (O’Neills Spirit Racing Team), Brion Thomas (Team Pau)
Re-signed: Elliott Colyer, Matt Downie (team manager and directeur sportif), Archie Wright
Out: Bobby Buenfeld (Stolen Goat 4Endurance), Oscar Hoult, Charlie Palmer, Alex Stanley (co-founder, stepping away)
BCC–MyPad
Elite · 1 confirmed · 10 not yet confirmed · last move 9 September
BCC Race Team is the Midlands Elite Development Team at the top of Bryan Steel’s youth-to-elite pathway. MyPad Racing p/b ONDO Sports was set up by Ewan Mackie and Lucas Jowett ahead of the 2025 season as ‘ad-hoc racing’, offering British riders UCI race days abroad with no fixed commitment. The two were already working together this season: Jowett won the season-opening East Cleveland Classic in MyPad colours, and Lewis Tinsley, who came up through BCC’s ranks, won the under-23 classification of the open National Road Series.
The two teams will merge and race as BCC–MyPad in 2027, building the season around the National Road Series and adding UCI races abroad. Mackie, who won a stage of the Tour of Kosovo in 2025, will both ride for the team and help run it. The roster is set at 14, mostly drawn from this year’s BCC squad with a number of more experienced additions, and team president John McCay is aiming to win or reach the podium in half the National Road Series races next season. Only Mackie has been named so far.
Read about BCC’s pathway here, and George Stephen’s journal from inside the team here.
In: Ewan Mackie (Madar Pro Cycling Team)
Not yet confirmed: Alexander Ball, George Bromley, Dan Galpin, William Gilbank, Lucas Jowett (MyPad Racing p/b ONDO Sports), Dillon Preece, Jacob Steed, George Stephen, Oliver Thorpe, Lewis Tinsley
Cycling Sheffield
Elite · 4 out · 3 not yet confirmed · last move 6 November
Dave Coulson’s team has completed the second season of a youth-focused reset: a locally funded squad built around riders aged 17 to 22, raced mainly at home with targeted trips to Belgium, France, and Italy. Alex Foster, in his third season with the team, won the Danum Trophy in April and was 4th at the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix in May, and when a French stage race was cancelled in August the team went to Belgium instead.
Ryan Williams has joined Wold Top Pactimo RT after two seasons, having come to the team from BCC Race Team. Denholm Edwards has joined the French N3 club VCA Saint-Quentin, and Foster another N3 club, Team Deux-Sèvres. Joshua Horsfield is also going to France for 2027, the team said on 20 October, though his club has not been named. On 26 October the team said it was looking to recruit a rider past under-23 age, proven at national level, and ideally with experience of racing in Europe, to bring experience to its young squad. Read about Horsfield’s season with the team here.
Not yet confirmed: Sam Barbour, James Sawyers, Nathan Smith
Out: Denholm Edwards (VCA Saint-Quentin), Alex Foster (Team Deux-Sèvres), Joshua Horsfield (France, club not announced), Ryan Williams (Wold Top Pactimo RT)
DAS Richardsons
Elite · 1 out · 15 not yet confirmed · last move 23 October
Andy Lyons’s Essex-based team, unmistakable in its orange kit, raced as Richardsons Trek DAS until 2024 and held British Cycling Elite Development Team status in 2026. It finished 4th in The British Continental’s open team rankings this season, on 1,160 points.
Both title sponsors are stepping down. Richardsons Cycles, the Leigh-on-Sea shop that became title sponsor in 2014, announced on 25 October that it is leaving after 13 seasons; it had always meant to back the team until its centenary, which falls this year. On 28 October the team said DAS Business Furniture, its other title sponsor since 2020, is also stepping down, so it will need a completely new name for 2027, which it has not yet announced. Simon Alexander, its road captain, is leaving after 14 seasons with the team, which he joined in 2013 at the age of 19. He says he is not retiring, but has not said where he will race in 2027.
Not yet confirmed: Peter Cocker, Oliver Curd, Cai Davies, Jordan Giles, Michael Gill, Rhys Howells, Matt Lloyd, Frank Longstaff, Matthew Lord, Piers Mahn, Olivier Mangham, Benjamin Myers, Steven Parsonage, William Perrett, Lyle Simpson
Out: Simon Alexander
Draft Racing
Elite · 18 confirmed · 1 out · squad announced · last move 3 November
The Bristol team founded by Charlie Parry raced for two seasons as Mud Dock Racing, named after the café and bike shop where he worked, before rebranding as Draft Racing for 2026 with an approach that puts enjoyment and balance ahead of results. KLM Taxis, its first financial backer, paid for entries, accommodation, and some logistics for the men’s squad this season.
For 2027 the men’s squad grows from six to 18, with six riders from Nopinz RT among 12 signings, including the Nopinz co-managers Lui Pollastrone and Joe Reeves, who join as riders. KLM Taxis has gone, so the subs of the team’s 70 or so riders will cover its costs. There will be no formal split between national and club teams, and the men will focus on regional racing such as the South League, alongside National Road Series and National Circuit Series rounds, and the CiCLE Classic. Tom Ashcroft stays but will race less. The team will not apply for Elite Development Team status.
In: Tom Bowden (Nopinz RT), Dan Burt (Nopinz RT), Toby Coates (Pronto Bikes Race Team), Jamie Francis (Nopinz RT), Frank Kilsby (League-Fortè Chiropractic), Will Mitchell (Equipo Finisher), Lui Pollastrone (Nopinz RT), Joe Reeves (Nopinz RT), Frank Schefer, Harvey Thomas (Nopinz RT), Reuben Trotter (54/11 Coaching), Eli Tucker
Re-signed: Tom Adby, Will Deely, Will Jewitt, Adam Lightfoot, Alex Montero (stepped up from the club team), Will Wilson (stepped up from the club team)
Out: Ollie Cadin
Halesowen A & CC
Elite · 3 confirmed · 13 not yet confirmed · last move 8 October
The academy of the West Midlands club runs under-23 and junior squads, and in 2026 the under-23 programme centred on Rás Mumhan, the national under-23 series, and race trips to France and Belgium.
Its first three signings for 2027 cover both squads. James Bacon, 19, arrives from TAAP Kalas after finishing 3rd at the Chas Messenger Trophy in September, and Ben Alliston and Joel Davidson, both 16, step up within the club to the junior squad. Alliston raced in the under-16 Youth A category this season.
Read about the academy’s 2026 squads here.
In: Ben Alliston (stepping up within the club), James Bacon (TAAP Kalas), Joel Davidson (stepping up within the club)
Not yet confirmed (under-23s): Daniel Ascroft, Benjamin Freeman, Luke Harris, Kaleb Herbert, Harry Howlett, Luke Mannings
Not yet confirmed (juniors): Malakhi Bailey, Xander Brandon-Higgs, Joseph Egan, Wilfred Franklin, Ben Harrington, Mikey Ratcliffe, James Saunders
JAKROO Handsling Racing
Elite · 10 not yet confirmed
The team launched at the end of 2024 as Raptor Factory Racing, with a three-year plan to reach Continental level. It raced as JAKROO Handsling Racing in 2026 under new title sponsors, managed by Promethean Sports, with Phill Maddocks, formerly of Muc-Off–SRCT–Storck, as sports director.
Rowan Baker, with the team since its first season, has called the national hill climb championships, where he took bronze in the open competition on 25 October, his “final race in red”, but has not said where he will race in 2027. Baker, 24, won the Kennel Hill Classic in March and was 8th at the Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic in April.
Not yet confirmed: Rowan Baker, Dylan Belton Owen, Sam Chaplin, Harrison Dainty, Oliver Dawson, Alex Franks, Thomas Heal, Oscar Nisbett, William Truelove, Conor White
Moonglu Spatzwear RT
Elite · 1 confirmed · 10 not yet confirmed · last move 5 October
Founded as a pathway from Moonglu Cycling Club, the Yorkshire team slimmed down to nine riders for 2026, targeting the National Road Series alongside a selective National B programme.
Joe Shillabeer joined with immediate effect on 5 October, after a season racing unattached in which he was 3rd at the Otley Grand Prix and 4th in the Scottish road race championship. He rode for Spectra Racing in 2024 and 2025.
In: Joe Shillabeer (unattached)
Not yet confirmed: Jonny Britton, Tom Harris, Jack Hartley, Joel Hurt, Max Lutz Atkinson, Ben Mewes, Ben Pease, Jack Rees, Joseph Turnbull, Joe Wilson
Nopinz RT
Elite · 12 out · elite team closing at the end of 2026 · last move 3 November
The team grew out of the long-running Reflex Racing club, raced as Reflex Nopinz in 2025 and became Nopinz RT when Reflex stepped away for 2026. Matt Gilmour was its highest-placed rider in The British Continental’s national rankings this season, at 13th; he was 2nd at the Portsdown Classic in February and won the Chitterne Road Race in April.
Nopinz RT will close its elite team at the end of 2026, two seasons after setting it up, because it could not find cash sponsorship. Co-managers Lui Pollastrone and Joe Reeves are stepping away, and masters rider Marcus Williams will run the club and masters team, which returns to the Reflex Racing name for 2027. Gilmour has joined Stolen Goat 4Endurance and Josh Hall has joined Aero CLCTV. Pollastrone, Reeves, Tom Bowden, Dan Burt, Jamie Francis, and Harvey Thomas have joined Draft Racing, Pollastrone and Reeves as riders.
Out: Jack Beveridge, Tom Bowden (Draft Racing), Dan Burt (Draft Racing), Jamie Francis (Draft Racing), Matt Gilmour (Stolen Goat 4Endurance), Josh Hall (Aero CLCTV), Dominic Horsfield, Ben Millar, Callum Orchard, Lui Pollastrone (Draft Racing), Joe Reeves (Draft Racing), Harvey Thomas (Draft Racing)
O’Neills Spirit Racing Team
Elite · 3 out · 6 not yet confirmed · last move 5 November
Russell Rowles set up Spirit Racing Team in 2010, and it has held British Cycling Elite Development Team status every year since 2019, racing as Spirit Tifosi RT, Spirit Bontrager-BSS Rotor, Embark Spirit BSS, and Spirit TBW Stuart Hall Cycling. George Kimber won the open National Road Series in its colours in 2024, the first rider from an Elite Development Team to do so. When Rowles stepped away that winter, Josh Parkin and Jason Nind kept the team going, and a new title sponsor brought the O’Neills name for 2026. Managed by Parkin, it raced Rás Mumhan and the Rás Tailteann alongside the National Road Series this season.
Three riders have left for 2027 so far. Archie Peet, the 2025 BUCS road race champion, and Max Duckworth have both joined Aero CLCTV, and Jake Jackson, who was on its books this year but stepped back from racing, has joined Wold Top Pactimo RT. The team has not announced anything else about 2027.
Not yet confirmed: Benjamin Arey, Iwan Clark, Huw Cressey-Rodgers, Felix Earth, Luke Gibson, Dexter Mansel-Thomas
Out: Max Duckworth (Aero CLCTV), Jake Jackson (Wold Top Pactimo RT), Archie Peet (Aero CLCTV)
Prologue Racing Team
Elite · 11 confirmed · 3 out · squad announced · last move 5 November
The senior side of Harrogate-based Prologue Racing, which added an under-23 squad for 2026 so that its junior graduates could stay with the team, alongside older riders such as Liam Slinn. Isaac Oliver won the Yorkshire U23 Classic in August, in his first season as an under-23. The juniors have their own entry, below.
On 5 November the team named its 11-rider senior squad for 2027, which it says keeps its youth focus. Zack Lowe steps up from the team’s juniors for his first under-23 season; Oliver, who joined from Harrogate Nova Race Team for 2026, stays with Louis Herring, Zack Miles, Dan Kemp, Magnus Denwood and James Beagley for a second; and Oli Sergeant stays for his last. Liam Slinn and Matt Williams continue as riders and mentors to the younger riders, and Matt Mannakee will race at masters level. Charles Harrison, Callum Watson and Ethan Whiteside, on the team’s roster this year, are not in it, so they leave; where they are going has not been announced.
In: Zack Lowe (Prologue Racing Team juniors)
Re-signed: James Beagley, Magnus Denwood, Louis Herring, Dan Kemp, Matt Mannakee, Zack Miles, Isaac Oliver, Oli Sergeant, Liam Slinn, Matt Williams
Out: Charles Harrison, Callum Watson, Ethan Whiteside
Pronto Bikes Race Team
Elite · 1 out · 9 not yet confirmed · last move 3 November
The men’s team of Pronto Bikes, the Frome bike shop, launched as a National Race Team for 2026 with a focus on under-23 riders, alongside the shop’s long-running local team. Managed by Justin Hoy, a former elite racer with NFTO, it planned a programme of National A and National B road races, National A criteriums, and trips to Belgium and France. The shop’s women’s team is in our women’s team guide.
Toby Coates has joined Draft Racing for 2027. The team has not announced anything else about 2027.
Not yet confirmed: Jack Baldie, Luke Barfoot, William Bjergfelt, Angus Collard, Will Duffy, Nathan Hallett, Charlie Hoy, David Roper, Tommy Stroud
Out: Toby Coates (Draft Racing)
RideRevolution Coaching CT
Elite · 4 confirmed · 3 out · 17 not yet confirmed · 7 signings to be named · last move 8 November
Founded by Jake Hales in 2023 and funded internally, RideRevolution Coaching CT intends to race at UCI Continental level in 2028. It was top of The British Continental’s open team rankings when that plan was announced in August, and had turned down four or five UCI stage races this season because it could not field enough riders.
For 2027 the team adds a new International Development Programme of 15 riders above its existing squad, with an expanded UCI and international calendar: 10 new signings, nine of them first-year under-23s, three riders from this year’s squad, and Hales and Clay Davies as rider mentors. Most of the existing squad stays together as the National Team, and the Scottish squad grows to six riders. The team is naming its riders one at a time: Hales, who will keep racing, on 2 November, and its first new signing, Harper Johnson from 360cycling, on 4 November. Edwin Boyle, a first-year under-23 who raced for the Belgian junior team Flanders U19 Academy this year, followed on 6 November. Harley Widdowson, who leaves camsmajaco as he moves up to the under-23 ranks, followed on 8 November. Josh Housley has joined Team PB Performance, and Alex Pickering and Sion Jones have stopped racing.
In: Harper Johnson (360cycling), Edwin Boyle (Flanders U19 Academy), Harley Widdowson (camsmajaco), plus seven signings to be named
Re-signed: Jake Hales (also rider mentor)
Not yet confirmed: Joe Adlam-Cook, James Ambrose-Parish, Nico Anelli, Max Bolton, Lance Childs, Clay Davies, Gabriel Dellar, Calum Dempster, Keir Gaffney, Hudson Hendry, Harry Macfarlane, William Metcalf, Cameron Morris, Sean O’Sullivan, Caleb Pain, Blake Roberts, Cameron Still
Out: Josh Housley (Team PB Performance), Sion Jones (stopped racing), Alex Pickering (stopped racing)
Schils–Doltcini RT
Elite · 1 confirmed · 1 out · 35 not yet confirmed · last move 4 November
Based in Essex and managed by the former professional Patrick Schils, the team raced as Velo Schils–Interbike RT in 2023 and gives its riders the chance to race UCI events around the world, often well away from cycling’s European heartland. It was thought to be the first British team to race a UCI road race in 2026, at the inaugural Pune Grand Tour in India in January, with a six-rider squad that included Archie Cross, the 2023 Tour de Maurice winner.
George Collins, a junior at Lee Valley Youth CC, is joining for 2027, according to Lee Valley; Schils–Doltcini has not confirmed it. Ben Baker, who raced for the team this year, has joined Wold Top Pactimo RT. The team has not announced anything else about 2027.
In: George Collins (Lee Valley Youth CC, reported)
Not yet confirmed: Fletcher Adams, Rowan Baxter, Patrick Biel, George Bowman, Patrick Clark, Nicholas Cooper, Alexander Cross, Archie Cross, Eugene Cross, Daniel Cutler, Matthew Ellmore, Patrick Fotheringham, Peter Fuller, Ben Gibson, Isaak Herbert, Theo Hester, Matthew Holland, Fabian Horrocks, Samuel Hughes, Cameron Hurst, Oscar Hutchings, Carl Jolly, Ryan Klein, Charlie Lacaille, Milo McIntosh, Ian Perry, Oscar Pratt, Matthew Rizzo-Naudi, Ciaran Robinson-Fitzsimmons, George Safranauskas, Dominic Schils, James Somerfield, Ethan Storti, Matthew Warhurst, Oliver Wood
Out: Ben Baker (Wold Top Pactimo RT)
Stolen Goat 4Endurance
Elite · 10 confirmed · 5 out · squad announced · last move 23 October
Simon Jodrell’s Hampshire team began as a group of friends racing locally and has grown organically since he took over in 2019. It was one of two men’s teams new to British Cycling’s Elite Development Team list in 2026, a year Jodrell called “a bit of an eye-opener”, and it opened its season with Alex Murphy’s win at the Portsdown Classic in February.
The 2027 squad is eight riders, seven of them under-23s, after a first season as an Elite Development Team that convinced Jodrell his focus should be on the young riders. The team has applied to stay an Elite Development Team, its sponsors are staying, and riders do not pay for their kit, helmets, tyres, nutrition, or National Series entries. Matt Gilmour, 2nd to Murphy at Portsdown, joins from Nopinz RT, Bobby Buenfeld from Aero CLCTV, Isaac Dutton and Milo Clarke from VC Londres, and Jack Sutton from La Vetta CC. Hugh Aubrey, Huw Watkins, and Mohammad Ganjkhanlou stay on. Murphy, the team’s leading rider this season, moves on, though where he will race has not been announced, and Jack Bartholomew, Reuben Dando, Ben Goodwin, and Daniel Piercy also leave. Ross Fawcett and Oliver Hurdle will still race in the team’s jersey, but outside the Elite Development Team squad and on calendars of their own.
In: Bobby Buenfeld (Aero CLCTV), Milo Clarke (VC Londres), Isaac Dutton (VC Londres), Matt Gilmour (Nopinz RT), Jack Sutton (La Vetta CC)
Re-signed: Hugh Aubrey, Ross Fawcett (outside the Elite Development Team squad), Mohammad Ganjkhanlou, Oliver Hurdle (outside the Elite Development Team squad), Huw Watkins
Out: Jack Bartholomew, Reuben Dando, Ben Goodwin, Alex Murphy, Daniel Piercy
TAAP Kalas RT
Elite · 1 out · 17 not yet confirmed · last move 8 October
Rider-led and completing its 11th season, TAAP Kalas RT is among the longest-standing National B squads in the country, with riders taking on the management roles themselves. Its calendar mixes National B road races, selected National Series events, and local criteriums with Irish stage races and Belgian kermesses.
James Bacon, one of six signings for 2026, has left for Halesowen A & CC.
Not yet confirmed: Matthew Bottomley, Matthew Brown, Benjamin Fish, Ashley Hutchison, Sam Kettlewell, Llewellyn Kinch, Joshua Knowles, Henry Latimer, Harvey Lawson, Matthew Lock, Cameron McLaren, Fergus Phelan, Jamie Pullen, Hamish Strachan, Zach Walters, Matthew Webber, Christopher Wilkins
Out: James Bacon (Halesowen A & CC)
Team PB Performance
Elite · 1 confirmed · 15 not yet confirmed · last move 20 October
Paul and Louise Bennett’s team grew out of a group of regional riders in 2017 and has raced nationally since 2018. Paul’s coaching business, PB Performance, gives it its name, the team promotes races of its own, and it held Elite Development Team status in 2026.
Its first new rider for 2027 is a familiar one. Josh Housley, who was in the team’s 2020 squad, returns after a season with RideRevolution Coaching CT and says he is looking forward to “leading a strong squad into Nat A races in 2027”.
In: Josh Housley (RideRevolution Coaching CT)
Not yet confirmed: Casper Brazier, James Chapman, Thomas Charles, Tobias Edwards, Dominic Ehinlanwo, Zack Gregory, Iestyn Jones, Zachary Metheringham, Tobi Ng, George Peden, William Pollard, Tristan Robbins, Richard Santhouse, Jude Taylor, George Watch
Team Tactic U23
Elite · 1 out · 8 not yet confirmed · last move 2 November
Team Tactic U23 launched for 2026 as an under-23 development team, set up to give riders without a team a place to race and to keep young riders in the sport after the junior ranks. Kitted by Tactic Sport UK, whose factory is in Girona, it planned a season built on the National Road Series and the under-23 series, with at least two trips abroad. It has said it could one day register as a UCI Continental team, but is taking “one step at a time”.
Sam Nisbet, 4th overall at the Peak 2 Day and 5th at the Mennock Pass Stage Race for the team this year, has joined Aero CLCTV for 2027. The team has not announced anything else about 2027.
Not yet confirmed: Jude Davison, Rory Fleming, Joe Howcroft, Hamish Hunter, Ryan Oldfield, Harvey Stroh, Alvaro Triviño Martínez, Joe Watkins-Wilson
Out: Sam Nisbet (Aero CLCTV)
Wold Top Pactimo RT
Elite · 16 confirmed · 1 out · squad announced · last move 7 November
The Yorkshire club team, managed by Tom Ramsay of The Edge Coaching, has riders racing on the road, off-road, and on the track, and raced as Wold Top The Edge Pactimo in 2024. Dan Barnes, who joined from Spectra Racing this year, was 5th overall at the Ronde van Wymeswold and 3rd at the BUCS road race championships.
On 1 November the team named 14 riders staying for 2027, two of them women, Daniella Cullum and Jas Townend, and said new signings would follow. Toby Bartlett, who won the VC Norwich Road Race in July, will also be a directeur sportif for what he calls the team’s new Elite Road squad. On 4 November it named Ben Baker, who raced for Schils–Doltcini this year, as the first of four new signings. On 5 November it added Jake Jackson, who raced for Muc-Off–SRCT–Storck in 2025 and stepped back from racing this year, as the second. Ryan Williams, 20, who has spent the past two seasons at Cycling Sheffield after several years with BCC Race Team, followed on 6 November as the third. Tim Torrie, who raced for the French club Issoire Cyclisme this year, completed the four on 7 November. Freddy Pett, on the team’s roster this year, was not named, so he leaves; where he is going has not been announced.
In: Ben Baker (Schils–Doltcini RT), Jake Jackson (O’Neills Spirit Racing Team), Ryan Williams (Cycling Sheffield), Tim Torrie (Issoire Cyclisme)
Re-signed: Mark Agent, Dan Barnes, Toby Bartlett, Jason Bouttell, Calum Brown, Marcus Cockerill, Barney Hall, Phil Large, Ryan Manders, Josh Ravn, Max Sillifant, Felix Wahlberg
Out: Freddy Pett
Zappi Racing Team
Elite · 9 confirmed · 10 not yet confirmed · last move 29 October
Flavio Zappi’s academy has run since 2009. It is affiliated to British Cycling but based in Italy, where its riders spend the season, and recruitment works by application: riders write in, and a few of them get a year in Tuscany.
Nine riders are confirmed for 2027 so far, four arriving and five staying. Ben Archer, a New Zealand junior, comes from the development arm of MitoQ / NZ Cycling Project; Jody Mills steps up from Zappi’s own junior team; Thayer Ask, 19 and American, arrives from university racing with the University of Nottingham Cycling Club; and Mark Ketteringham steps up from Prologue Racing Team’s juniors. Otis Jones, Seb Zajaczkowski, Finn Slade, Noah Hollamby, and Rory Condon stay on. Recruitment was still open at the last update.
In: Ben Archer (MitoQ / NZ Cycling Project Devo), Thayer Ask (University of Nottingham Cycling Club), Mark Ketteringham (Prologue Racing Team), Jody Mills (Zappi Junior Race Team)
Re-signed: Rory Condon, Noah Hollamby, Otis Jones, Finn Slade, Seb Zajaczkowski
Not yet confirmed: Gabriel Bolton, Nicholas Candy, Jake Edwards, Sam Geldard, Jack Gillingham, Maxwell Hereward, Rodrigo Merino, Tallis Pritchard, John Roberts, Xavier Sirianni
Junior teams
camsmajaco
Junior · 8 confirmed · 7 out · squad announced · last move 8 November
The mixed-gender junior 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. Its first season was overshadowed by the death of Shane O’Brien, the 16-year-old from Fermoy, Co Cork, in a crash while training in June. Only the junior men are covered here; the junior women are in our women’s guide.
The 2027 junior men’s squad is eight riders. Milo and Sam de la Mare, the team’s most consistent stage racers this summer, and Daniel Davies stay on as second-year juniors, and five riders step up from youth racing, three of them as national champions: Finlay Burns, Alex Goodwill, and Tom Lane, the Irish under-16 champion. All seven riders leaving were born in 2008 and move up to the under-23 ranks. Leon Atkins, the junior national time trial champion, joins Lidl–Trek Future Racing and Harley Widdowson RideRevolution Coaching CT; the other five have not yet said where they are going.
Read our interview with Leon Atkins here, and Ian Mansel-Thomas’s journal on why 16 is too young to sign for a European team here.
In: Finlay Burns (GKR Racing), Alex Goodwill (Preston Park Youth CC), Tom Lane (Dan Morrissey Pissei), Darragh Murphy (Rostrevor Mountain Bike Club), Oliver Williams (Risca Riders)
Re-signed: Daniel Davies, Milo de la Mare, Sam de la Mare
Out: Leon Atkins (Lidl–Trek Future Racing), Aaron Cocker, Alex Coles, Gus Dutton, Albie Jones, Harley Widdowson (RideRevolution Coaching CT), Milo Wills
Harrogate Nova Race Team
Junior · 10 confirmed · 4 out · squad announced · last move 11 October
The Yorkshire club team whose Harry Hudson won the junior world road race title in Rwanda in 2025, the first by a British junior man, and whose Daniel Thompson won the individual pursuit at this year’s junior track world championships. Manager Mike Cross describes it simply: “We’re still a club at heart.”
The team named a 10-rider junior squad for 2027 on 11 October, half of it new. Andrew Levinson and Arthur Sleightholm arrive from Shibden Apex RT, Thomas Hutchinson and Daniel Minay from the Manx team Team RL360 Isle of Man, and Asher Gray from Team Ohten. Minay, the team says, finished 2nd in the national rankings this year and rode well at the Assen Youth Tour. Alex Box, Finley Hudson, Alfie Nott, Archie Whittemore, and Freddie Winkley stay on, and the squad graphic describes Harrogate Nova as associated with the NSN Development Team.
In: Asher Gray (Team Ohten), Thomas Hutchinson (Team RL360 Isle of Man), Andrew Levinson (Shibden Apex RT), Daniel Minay (Team RL360 Isle of Man), Arthur Sleightholm (Shibden Apex RT)
Re-signed: Alex Box, Finley Hudson, Alfie Nott, Archie Whittemore, Freddie Winkley
Out: Matthew Fletcher, Arthur Limb, Daniel Thompson, Dexter Townsend
Lee Valley Youth CC
Junior · 11 confirmed · 10 out · squad announced · last move 29 October
Founded in 2000, the club is one of the biggest youth clubs in the country, and team manager Bob Griffiths says around 20 former members have gone on to race at Continental level. Its junior team was set up in 2016, and Griffiths runs it with help from club parents and former junior riders. This year the team won the team classification at the Classique Puisaye Forterre and finished 3rd in it at the Ronde des Vallées, the best of the British teams, a year after winning the team classification at the Junior Tour of Ireland.
The club named an 11-rider junior squad for 2027 on 29 October, and has applied for 10 UCI junior races in its own right and 10 more as a mixed team with VC Londres’ junior men, hoping the combined strength wins places both clubs have been refused before. Noah White, 7th in this year’s junior national road race, is one of five riders staying. Alex MacInnes, who raced for Team Ohten as a youth this year, steps up, and Bayley Woodger joins from Grouwels–Watersley R&D Cycling Team. Noah Wheller has joined a Spanish U23 team, and Thomas Heap and Ben Jones stay with the club as under-23s.
In: Cooper Barkey (Portsmouth North End CC), Daniel Branford (Poole Wheelers), Ben Fiennes (Sprockets Cycling Club), Alex MacInnes (Team Ohten), Finley Staunton (Sprockets Cycling Club), Bayley Woodger (Grouwels–Watersley R&D Cycling Team)
Re-signed: Sam Genazzini, Henry Jago, Gaspard Robertson, Noah White, Jack Wright
Out: George Collins (Schils–Doltcini RT, reported), Luca Geddes Gasco (university), Thomas Heap (staying with the club as an under-23), Ben Jones (staying with the club as an under-23), Archie Sewell-Gaiger, Harry Skinner (university), Isaac Starmer (Colchester Rovers, reported), Harry Tozer (university), Joe Tysoe (university), Noah Wheller (Spanish U23 team, not named)
Prologue Racing Team (juniors)
Junior · 6 confirmed · 3 out · 1 not yet confirmed · last move 5 November
The junior side of Harrogate-based Prologue Racing, which regularly races UCI junior events in Europe and added an under-23 squad for 2026 to keep its graduates in the team.
Xander Graham leaves after one junior season with the team to join JEGG-SKIL-DJR U19, the Dutch junior team that works with Visma–Lease a Bike. Mark Ketteringham, a junior with the team for the past two seasons, steps up to the under-23 ranks with Zappi Racing Team, and Zack Lowe moves up to Prologue’s own senior squad for his first under-23 season.
In: Lewis Anderson (Shibden Apex RT), Will Baldie (trainSharp Roman Race Team), Felix Boyle (youth), James Hardisty (Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy)
Re-signed: James Calvert, Ollie Swinburn
Not yet confirmed: Harrison Evans
Out: Xander Graham (JEGG-SKIL-DJR U19), Mark Ketteringham (Zappi Racing Team), Zack Lowe (Prologue Racing Team)
Shibden Apex RT
Junior · 2 out · 3 not yet confirmed · last move 15 October
The junior men’s squad run alongside the Yorkshire junior women’s team of the same name, which was Team of the Year at the British Conti Awards in 2024.
The women’s team will close at the end of 2026; the men’s squad is run separately and has not said anything about its own future. Two of its juniors have already moved on: Samuel Stewart-Ball joins the French club Sportbreizh Axel Armor-Lux, and the team says Will Brown is joining the Spanish under-23 team Natural Greatness–Rali–Ale, which has not yet announced him.
Not yet confirmed: Matti Bell, Harrison Hendy, Lucas Lillistone
Out: Will Brown (Natural Greatness–Rali–Ale, reported), Samuel Stewart-Ball (Sportbreizh Axel Armor-Lux)
Watts Occurring Racing
Junior · 6 confirmed · squad announced · last move 20 October
A new junior team for 2027, set up by Maindy Flyers, the Cardiff club where Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe learned to race, and named after the pair’s podcast. Both are backing it, though neither will be involved day to day. Deian Jones manages the team and Matt Rowe coaches it, Uprise Bikes is the main sponsor, and club chair Mike Richards says it will not be a pay-to-ride team.
Six riders have been chosen from around 20 applicants, four of them from Maindy, and the team named them one at a time. All six are now confirmed: Harry Cooper, from Beeston CC; Matt Holmes, from Mid Devon Cycling Club; and Sam Farquhar, Hedd Griffiths, Talan Jones, and Cameron Reeves, from Maindy. The programme is built on the Junior Open National Road Series with as much European racing as invitations and budget allow.
In: Harry Cooper (Beeston CC), Sam Farquhar (Maindy Flyers), Hedd Griffiths (Maindy Flyers), Matt Holmes (Mid Devon Cycling Club), Talan Jones (Maindy Flyers), Cameron Reeves (Maindy Flyers)
