UAE Team l’IMAD is the Gulf state we know from the men’s team. The Belgian squad is is the sister team of the Alpecin-PremierTech men’s team but notable because of the different title sponsor for each. It has had a joint men’s team at Continental level but this is stopping to focus on the women’s project. Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi is the sister team to the Euskatel-Euskadi men’s team only with Laboral Kuxta they have a credit union as a sponsor of the women’s team, kutxa is Basque for a caja in Spanish. While the men’s team is 100% Norwegian and Danish, the women’s team is more international.