‘It requires meticulous management’ – How Intermarché-Wanty keep competing on the smallest budget in the WorldTour

Intermarché-Wanty performance manager Aike Visbeek shed light on the realities of life as the team with the smallest budget in the WorldTour, with the Belgian team’s €14 million budget counting for less than a third of the division’s richest squad UAE Team Emirates.

The Belgian called the first half of the 2024 season “perhaps the most difficult” in terms of keeping the team – which includes the WorldTour squad, the U23 development team, and a cyclocross operation – running smoothly. He also noted that Intermarché stepped up sponsorship as the team will lose key sponsor Circus due to the upcoming Belgian ban on gambling advertising.