The St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 team will withdraw from the men’s professional group in 2027
ROAD CYCLING – An indispensable French team for more than three decades, the St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 structure has decided to draw a line under its men’s team.
In an increasingly financially greedy professional cycling world, French teams are suffering. Among the already recorded disappearances of the structures B&B Hotel From Jerome Pineau (2022) et Arkea-B&B Hotels D’Emanuele Uberto (2025) and the uncertainty around Total energies From Jean-Rene BernaudeauFrench cycling is struggling to keep up. Training St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 is the latest example.
“Refocusing the activity of our professional sector on women’s cycling”
Last Tuesday, through a press release, one of the historic teams of the professional group made a significant announcement. Thirty-three years after its creation, the men’s team created in 1994 in Aubervilliers will retire from next yearas confirmed by the current General Director, Stephane Gaudry :
I am aware that the decision we are making for the future is very significant. We are closing a chapter spanning several decades that has seen us compete in the most important races in the world.
The structure in fact direct all its resources to the women’s teamwhich currently has the status of ProTeam and regularly participates in the biggest races on the calendar, including the Tour de France. A strong choice, dictated by the increasingly demanding economy of the male professional world.
We have imagined this project for years to come with the full support of our partners, both private and public, explains Stéphane Gaudry. Our adventure is not over, it continues as we always have: with courage, humility and ambition. Refocusing our Pro Sector’s activity on women’s cycling will allow us to face the future with additional resources, greater energy and affirmed ambitions.
St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93, more than three decades of history
It is therefore a matter of a great page of French cycling that will turn. Launched in 1994, the training based in Aubervilliers he had a sensational debut in the professional group. Just two years after its creation, it took part in the Tour of France 1996with immediate success thanks to stage victory won by Cyril Saugrain. This then began the golden era of education, in which he took part five of the six Tours played between 1996 and 2001.
If there was no other success on the Grande Boucle, the arrival of Large carpet as a sponsor allowed the team to maintain a high level of performance until the early 2000s. A golden era that saw Pasquale Lino impose yourself Paris-Camembert (1998), Christophe Capelle be sacred French Champion (2000) or even Félix Garcia Casas sign to Top 10 (8th) at the Vuelta (2002). After Big Mat’s departure in 2004, the group then turned more towards training, evolving at a lower level.
That didn’t stop the team from achieving sensational successes, like that one Steven Tronet’s unexpected French champion title in 2015or even numerous successes achieved in the major races on the French calendar. At the level Continental for many years with the unfailing support of St Michel, the men’s team St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 will leave a Immense void in the French groupbut also in the hearts of enthusiasts.
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