The 2020 NTT Continental Cycling Team, the under-23 feeder team for the WorldTour NTT Pro Cycling Team, has nearly finalized its 2020 lineup of 11 riders.

NTT will be the new title sponsor of the Dimension Data team in 2020, and its feeder team will also change its name from Dimension Data Continental Team to NTT Continental Cycling Team. [U23 Road Race World Champions Samuele Battistella and Matteo Sobrero will join the NTT WorldTour Team, Alexander Konicev will join WorldTour Team Mitchelton Scott, and Mur Hailemichael will join Pro Continental Team Delco Marseille Provence, and Luca Mozzato to the ProConti B&B Hotels Vital Concepts.

Four young Italians, Samuele Rubino, Leonardo Marchioli, Riccardo Bobo, and Mattia Guasco, along with South African Marc Plitzen, Eritrean Henok Murueberhan Solomon, and Ethiopian Negusi Abreja, join the team.

South Africa's Connor Brown, Eritrea's Natnael Tesfazion, and Slovenia's Martin Lavric will remain, the latter having qualified for the 2019 team by winning last season's Zwift Academy Indoor Cycling competition and making enough of a team management impressed and qualified for 2020 as well.

The eleventh and final rider for the 2020 team will be announced at training camp in December after the final stages of this year's Zwift competition, with either Dutchman Matthijs Roman, Drew Christensen, or Campbell Pitty (all from New Zealand) in the final positions.

"This team is getting stronger every year and this year they produced a world champion in Samuele Battistella.

"Every year we look for riders to join this team for the UCI World Team and every year one or two riders step up as neo pros.

"2020 is an incredible year for the UCI World Team development team, 2020 will be a great year for the UCI World Team development team, we are looking for riders to join the UCI World Team and we are looking for riders to join the UCI World Team. Riders registered with a development team can participate in UCI Pro Series and Class 1 events with a UCI WorldTeam at any time during the season," he continued, highlighting the new UCI rules that will be introduced next year.

"This will create opportunities for young riders that were not there before and make the NTT Pro Cycling Team stronger. We are better together."

Continental team manager Kevin Campbell added, "We are very excited to continue our development program with our rebranded title partner, NTT, in 2020.

"The 2019 cycling season is a successful year for the team and we look forward to building on these successes with a new roster of talented African and Italian riders. With eight new riders joining our lineup next year, they have a lot to learn, but we believe in their talent and look forward to helping them grow as athletes and as people."