The big bank Parsian Financial Group has joined the old Team Armavia and will therefore be called PFG - Armavia from now on, and will have its hub in Teheran. The cycle team will have two focuses. Both to continue working with the great riders from the regions of our interests, together with encouraging new youngsters from the middle east to start or continue cycling. As we have a strong regional focus on middle eastern riders, we need to continue developing riders. We will bring in a whole bunch of fresh blood in what we think will be talented riders from the middle east, northern africa and central asia, and try to learn as much as possible from them. This season will be a real fight and a battle to the end where we hopefully get to avoid relegation from the Pro Continental Division.

We suspect a strong starting field in Kenya Mountain Cassic, but we want to show off our colours in east africa this season, which is why we also would like to focus on Tour of Eritrea. The new C2-race Tour of the Middle East is a very very interesting project and we hope to field a squad at the line up there. There is no doubt, however, that the highest priority this season goes to Azerbaijan Tour where we will get the opportunity to ride at home. We think it will be a great succes both for the team, the sponsors and of course the spectators. We will do our best to get som results there

Tour of Qatar is important for us solely because it's located in the Middle East. We know it will be hard to gain a wild card to this race, but this is the only PT-race we are considering to apply for, and therefore we have the necessary cash for it if we should get the chance.