Team Picnic PostNL
Team Picnic–PostNL is a Dutch UCI WorldTour professional cycling team managed by Iwan Spekenbrink. The team has been active at the highest level of the sport for over a decade, previously racing under names such as Team Sunweb, Team DSM and DSM–Firmenich PostNL. In 2025, it adopted its new identity following a title sponsorship by Picnic. Key riders include Fabio Jakobsen and Max Poole.
Full official team name and common short name
The registered name is Team Picnic PostNL, most outlets shorten it to Picnic PostNL or Picnic. The team’s UCI code is TPP.
Team category and status
Picnic PostNL races as a UCI WorldTeam, which places the squad in men’s road cycling’s highest tier with automatic starts at all WorldTour events, including the three Grand Tours and the five Monuments.
Primary disciplines
The programme is built around men’s elite road racing. The team targets Grand Tours, week-long stage races and one-day classics, with a strong emphasis on bringing young riders through to win across different race profiles.
Next to the men's team there is also a Team Picnic PostNL women teamcompeting at WorldTour level.
Country of registration and base location
The team is Dutch-registered and operates from Deventer in the Netherlands.
Founding year and origin story
The structure traces back to the mid-2000s Dutch development project that grew into a WorldTour mainstay.
Current title sponsor and key partners
Picnic, the Dutch online grocer, and PostNL, the national postal service of the Netherlands, headline the project. Bikes are supplied by Lapierre with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 groupsets, Ursus wheels, Vittoria tyres and Prologo saddles. The race setup is fully integrated and tubeless-first.
Previous team names and sponsor history
The lineage includes eras as Skil–Shimano, Argos–Shimano, Giant–Alpecin, Team Sunweb, Team DSM, and team dsm–firmenich PostNL, culminating in today’s Picnic PostNL identity.
What are the key achievements of Picnic PostNL?
Highlights from the structure’s history include Tom Dumoulin’s Giro d’Italia overall win in 2017, the Tour de France points and KOM jerseys in 2017, John Degenkolb’s Milan–San Remo and Paris–Roubaix double in 2015, the UCI World Team Time Trial title in 2017, and dozens of Grand Tour stage victories and Oscar Onley's 4th place in the GC at the 2025 Tour de France.
The key riders on the 2026 roster of Picnic PostNL
Picnic PostNL’s headline act is Fabio Jakobsen, who gives the team a WorldTour sprint finisher around whom they can build full lead-outs with Bram Welten, Niklas Märkl, Tim Naberman, Pavel Bittner and Julius van den Berg.
In the classics, John Degenkolb brings hard‑earned savvy as road captain, with Timo Roosen and Nils Eekhoff as riders who might make it into the finale.
Warren Barguil adds climbing pedigree and stage‑hunting nous for hilly one‑day races and Grand Tour breakaways, while Max Poole, Chris Hamilton and James Knox steady the GC and mountain blocks alongside Gijs Leemreize.
Casper van Uden offers additional speed for fast finales and development targets, Matthew Dinham looks poised for a step forward on punchy terrain, and Max Poole strengthens the team’s long‑range GC future. Rising talents like Oliver Peace and Henri‑François Renard‑Haquin round out a squad that blends proven winners with promising depth across sprints, classics and the high mountains.
Key alumni
Team Picnic PostNL’s alumni include Tom Dumoulin , who won the 2017 Giro d’Italia and the world time trial title while in the colours, and Marcel Kittel and Michael Matthews delivered Grand Tour stage wins and a Tour green jersey.
Jai Hindley took a breakthrough Giro podium before becoming a Grand Tour winner, while Romain Bardet, Tiesj Benoot and Søren Kragh Andersen added class across GC and the classics.
The pipeline also produced Wilco Kelderman, Lennard Kämna, Sam Oomen, Simon Geschke, Cees Bol, Nikias Arndt and Laurens ten Dam, riders who graduated into leaders or elite support at WorldTour level. Together they underline what the structure has long done best: develop talent, win big, and send polished riders into the sport’s top ranks.