XDS Astana Team

Astana was built in 2007 out of the Spanish Liberty Seguros-Würth squad, which had collapsed in the fallout from the 2006 Operación Puerto investigation and finished that season under Kazakh sponsorship. It rode as Astana Pro Team through 2020, became Astana-Premier Tech in 2021, Astana Qazaqstan Team from 2022 to 2024, and took the name XDS Astana Team in 2025, when the Chinese bicycle manufacturer XDS became title sponsor.

Alexander Vinokourov tested positive for a homologous blood transfusion at the 2007 Tour de France and the team withdrew from the race. Johan Bruyneel took charge for 2008, bringing Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer and Andreas Klöden across from Discovery Channel, and the organisers left the squad out of that year's Tour. Contador won the Giro and the Vuelta in 2008, then the Tour in 2009, the season Lance Armstrong used the team for his comeback.

Contador won the 2010 Tour as well, before the Court of Arbitration for Sport stripped him of the title in February 2012 over a clenbuterol positive and awarded it to Andy Schleck. Vinokourov, who had ridden for the team in 2007 and from 2009, retired after the 2012 Olympics and took over as general manager in 2013. He signed Vincenzo Nibali, who won the Giro d'Italia in 2013, the Tour de France in 2014 and a second Giro in 2016.

EPO positives for brothers Maxim and Valentin Iglinskiy in 2014 led the UCI to seek withdrawal of the team's licence after a University of Lausanne audit. The licence was retained on 23 April 2015. Fabio Aru won the Vuelta a España that year, the first Grand Tour of his career, and Jakob Fuglsang took Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2019. Mark Cavendish won stage five of the 2024 Tour de France, his thirty-fifth there, passing the record Eddy Merckx had held since 1975.