Last Updated: March 24, 2026
Primož Roglič has officially signed for BORA-hansgrohe on a two-year deal, ending speculation over his future following confirmation of his decision to leave Jumbo-Visma earlier this week.
The Slovenian’s signature represents a major coup for the German outfit, and marks an immediate fracture of Jumbo-Visma’s all-conquering triumvirate of Roglič, Jonas Vingegaard, and Sepp Kuss, who between them won all three Grand Tours in 2023.
Roglič had been heavily linked with Ineos Grenadiers before BORA-hansgrohe emerged as the frontrunners over recent days.
The decision ends his eight-year stay at Jumbo-Visma, with whom he was under contract until 2025.
Roglič was a key figure in the team’s dominance, but it appears Vingegaard’s stranglehold over the Tour de France and Sepp Kuss’ emergence as a serious Grand Tour contender led the Slovenian to question his leadership opportunities for the 2024 season.
The Tour de France is the only Grand Tour title to evade the three-time Vuelta champion and 2023 Giro d’Italia winner. The transfer to BORA-hansgrohe guarantees him an opportunity to challenge for the 2024 Tour with the undisputed backing of his team, which would not have been the case at Jumbo-Visma.
“The decisive factor was that the team is motivated to work with me”
“I am looking forward to this step, even though a team change is kind of like new territory for me,” Roglič said at Friday’s press conference.
“The good memories of when we met years ago made the talks easy. But the decisive factor was that the team is really motivated to work with me, and that we hold the same ideas.”
CyclingNews reports that BORA-hansgrohe paid a fee of €3 million ($3.17 million USD) to Jumbo-Visma to buy out the remaining two years of Roglič’s contract at the Dutch outfit.
Roglič’s salary at BORA-hansgrohe will reportedly earn him €10 million ($10.56 million USD) over the duration of the two-year contract.
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Why Roglič Left Jumbo-Visma
The move was not entirely unexpected. After Jonas Vingegaard’s back-to-back Tour de France victories in 2022 and 2023, it became clear that the Dutch team’s Grand Tour strategy would be built around the young Dane for the foreseeable future. For Roglič — a three-time Vuelta a España champion and former Tour de France runner-up — the prospect of playing a supporting role at cycling’s biggest race was difficult to accept.
Reports throughout the 2023 season suggested growing tension behind the scenes. Roglič was reportedly frustrated by tactical decisions at the Tour that he felt compromised his own GC ambitions, and the team’s public messaging increasingly positioned Vingegaard as the undisputed leader. When the transfer window opened, Roglič wasted little time finding a new home.
What BORA-hansgrohe Got in the Deal
For BORA-hansgrohe, signing Roglič represented a statement of intent. The German team had been steadily improving its roster but lacked a genuine Grand Tour contender. Roglič brought an immediate upgrade in that department — his palmares at the time of the transfer included three Vuelta titles, a Giro d’Italia stage win, multiple one-week stage race victories, and an Olympic time trial gold medal from Tokyo 2020.
Beyond the results, Roglič also brought experience and leadership. At 33 years old, he had been through every scenario that professional cycling can throw at a rider: dramatic crashes, agonizing time trial defeats, and remarkable comeback victories. That kind of maturity was exactly what BORA needed as it tried to establish itself as a genuine Grand Tour team rather than a Classics-and-sprints outfit.
How the Transfer Played Out on the Road
Roglič’s first season at BORA-hansgrohe in 2024 more than justified the investment. He won the Giro d’Italia in a gripping battle that went down to the final time trial, adding cycling’s first Grand Tour to the team’s palmarès. The victory was particularly sweet given that Roglič had been haunted by near-misses at the Tour de France — notably the devastating final-stage time trial loss to Tadej Pogačar in 2020.
The Giro win cemented Roglič as one of the most successful Grand Tour riders of his generation and proved that his decision to leave the comfort of Jumbo-Visma was the right one. At BORA, he was the undisputed leader, the team was built around his strengths, and the result was a career-defining victory that had eluded him in his final years at the Dutch squad.
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