TEAM SD WORX - PROTIME

Founded in 2011 with the backing of Dolmans Landscaping (as its name suggests, a landscaping company), the team quickly established itself as the best in the world. With the arrival of Boels, a Benelux-based tool and machine rental group, it was renamed Dolmans–Boels (2012) and then Boels–Dolmans (2013–2020) before being christened SD Worx, after a human resources service provider. Protime, a subsidiary of SD Worx, has featured as the secondary title sponsor since 2024. The structure is Dutch, although SD Worx's head office is in Belgium.

Before FDJ–Suez toppled it from the summit last season, the outfit had finished eight of the last nine seasons at the top of the UCI Ranking—a dominance only interrupted by Trek–Segafredo in 2020. It has also been home to multiple world champions. Lotte Kopecky relinquished the rainbow stripes this season, but the Belgian star remains a formidable presence, as do the sprinter Lorena Wiebes and the Oranje icon Anna van der Breggen. She earned most of her silverware with the team, including wins in the Amstel Gold Race, the Tour of Flanders, Strade Bianche, two Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes, three of her four Giro titles and five of her seven Flèche Wallonne Femmes victories.

After hanging up her bicycle in 2021, the Dutch star remained with the team as a team manager before returning to racing in 2025 to discover the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Before this unexpected comeback, Demi Vollering, whom Van der Breggen coached and managed, succeeded her as the world's best climber. In 2023, the Dutch rider achieved the Ardennes treble before sealing her Tour victory in the fog of the Tourmalet, where she took the Yellow Jersey from her teammate Lotte Kopecky. Vollering now races for FDJ United–Suez, so Van der Breggen, who returned to form in no time flat and is going even faster in 2026, will face her former disciple.