Lotto Soudal announced that Jere Vanendert is leaving the Belgian WorldTour team after 11 seasons with the team, posting photos on social media in tribute to the Belgian climber.Het Laatste Nieuws, Het Nieuwsblad and other Belgian newspapers, the 34-year-old Vanendert's 2020 destination is Pro Continental's Wallonie Bruxelles.

Vanendert moved from Française des Jeux to the then Silence-Lotto in 2009 and won the 14th stage of the 2011 Tour de France at Plateau de Beille, beating Samuel Sanchez, the aggressive Andy Schleck, and that year's Tour winner He took a memorable solo victory ahead of Cadel Evans.

Vanendert took the polka-dot mountains jersey and held it for four days before eventually handing it over to Sanchez.

Wallonie Bruxelles is likely to participate in many of the Belgian and Dutch mountain classics where Vanendert has shone in the past, earning invitations to the Fresh Wallonne, the Baloise Belgian Tour, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège this past season, Vanendert finished second overall in the Baloise Belgian Tour and took a stage win (his only other professional win besides a stage win at the Tour). [The best results of the season were 7th in Clasica San Sebastian and 9th in Flèche Wallonne.