Villeneuve d’Ascq/Marseille, July 21, 2025 – DECATHLON, CMA CGM, and France Cyclisme pleased to announce their new co-naming partnership for the professional cycling team currently known as DECATHLON AG2R LA MONDIALE. Starting January 1, 2026, the cycling team will compete under the name DECATHLON CMA CGM.
A partnership based on shared values
Following the announcement of DECATHLON's acquisition of the professional cycling team at the end of the 2025 season, an ambitious new chapter is beginning. The CMA CGM Group, a global player in maritime, land, air, and logistics solutions, as well as media, is joining DECATHLON as a title partner for an initial renewable five-year period.
This partnership brings together two major French family-owned companies with a strong international presence and deep roots in their respective regions: Hauts-de-France for DECATHLON and Provence for CMA CGM. Together, they share a culture of commitment, collective action, and the belief that sport is a force that can inspire, uplift, and bring people together.
For nearly 50 years, DECATHLON has been committed to making sport accessible to all, while gradually strengthening its involvement at the highest level of competitive sport. For its part, the CMA CGM Group has for many years supported sport as a lever for action, both locally and globally, in all the regions where it operates.
A major partner of Olympique de Marseille, CMA CGM has also supported the Guadeloupe International Tour since 2023. In 2024, the Group was also the Official Logistics Solutions Partner for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, illustrating its deep commitment to the values of sport. With cycling, CMA CGM is confirming its support for a universal, popular and demanding sport that is accessible to everyone, everywhere in the world.
Javier López, Chief Executive, DECATHLON
"This partnership with CMA CGM embodies our shared human values and our commitment to people. Together, we are determined to take the team to the highest level of cycling, whether to achieve sporting excellence, or to train tomorrow's champions. Guided by the spirit of surpassing ourselves, teamwork and a deep conviction that sport is a driving force, we continue to develop not just a team, but a winning project. A project that reflects our vision of collective progress and makes a significant contribution to the future of cycling. We look forward to writing this new chapter with CMA CGM, with passion, humility and ambition."
Rodolphe Saadé,Chief Executive the CMA CGM Group
"I am proud to announce that our Group has become a sponsor of the "DECATHLON - CMA CGM" cycling team. This partnership reflects what we share with DECATHLON: family roots, a long-term vision and values of daring, surpassing oneself and humility. Today, we're joining a great sporting and French story, with the ambition of together taking a top-level team to the top."
Dominique Serieys, Chief Executive France Cyclisme
"CMA CGM's commitment to DECATHLON is a decisive step in our 2030 strategic plan to reach the highest level worldwide.
DECATHLON and CMA CGM fully embody this ambition. They share a long-term vision, a strong culture of innovation and strong values to help France shine on the international stage. Yesterday, as partners of Paris 2024, this alliance, a legacy of the Games, sends out a strong signal: we are determined to write a historic chapter in French and world sport.
The investment of our partners, whether financial, technical or human, strengthens our determination and our level of demand to win and thus inspire all CMA CGM employees around the world, in line with what we have been able to create with DECATHLON teammates."
A long-term vision to reach the summit of world cycling
DECATHLON and CMA CGM share the same ambition: to strengthen their commitment to the cycling team and compete with the best teams in Tour UCI World Tour, by building a long-term project based on sporting integrity and riders development.
This ambition reflects a collective commitment to building an international project that promotes the emergence of new talent, invests in the next generation, and continually strengthens itself. The development team (12 riders seven nationalities) and junior team (14 riders seven nationalities) are at the heart of this strategy. This reflects the team's desire to grow from within, prepare future champions, and shape the future of cycling with determination and passion.
United by a shared vision, DECATHLON and CMA CGM will thrill to every race, determined to push the limits and write tomorrow's great victories together with the cycling team.
About DECATHLON
A global multisport brand for beginners and top athletes alike, DECATHLON designs innovative sports equipment for all levels of practice.
With 101,100 employees and 1,817 stores worldwide, DECATHLON and its teams have been working since 1976 with a constant ambition: to get people moving through the magic of sport, to help them live healthier, happier lives in a sustainable future.
Further information: https://www.decathlon.media
About the CMA CGM Group
The CMA CGM Group is a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, true to its raison d'être: to imagine better solutions to serve a world on the move.
With a presence in 177 countries, CMA CGM employs 160,000 people, including nearly 6,000 in Marseilles, its head office. The world's third largest shipping company, CMA CGM serves more than 420 ports on 5 continents with a fleet of over 650 vessels. In 2024, the Group transported over 23 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers. Its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, one of the world's top 5, operates 1,000 warehouses and handled 15 million shipments in 2024. The Group's air freight division operates a fleet of cargo aircraft under the CMA CGM AIR CARGO and Air Belgium brands. CMA Media, France's third-largest private media group, owns RMC-BFM as well as several national and regional press titles (La Tribune Dimanche, La Tribune, La Provence, Corse Matin, etc.). Committed to the energy transition, the Group is aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050. The CMA CGM Foundation provides humanitarian aid in crisis situations and supports education for all and equal opportunities worldwide. To date, the Foundation has transported 63,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to 97 countries and supported over 550 educational projects.
