Major honours
The longest continuously running team in the peloton, founded in 1980 with backing from Navarrese aluminium company Reynolds and later racing as Banesto, Illes Balears and Caisse d'Epargne before taking telecom sponsor Movistar's name in 2011. Pedro Delgado won the 1988 Tour and 1989 Vuelta, and Miguel Indurain won five straight Tours from 1991 to 1995 while adding the Giro in both 1992 and 1993 for consecutive Giro-Tour doubles. In 2006, Oscar Pereiro inherited the Tour title after Floyd Landis's disqualification. Alejandro Valverde won the 2009 Vuelta, four editions of Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the 2018 world title, and Nairo Quintana won the 2014 Giro and 2016 Vuelta. On the women's side, Annemiek van Vleuten swept the Giro, the Tour de France Femmes and the world title all in the same year, 2022.
Record comparison
Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.
Club legends
Rivalry
In the 1990s, the climbers who challenged Indurain's time-trialling, especially Tony Rominger and Richard Virenque, were the main rivals. At the 2018 Tour, a failed "triumvirate" strategy fielding Quintana, Valverde and Mikel Landa as co-leaders exposed how far the team's philosophy sat from Sky's single-leader model.