{"id":950243,"date":"2026-11-02T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950243\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:28:11","slug":"charly-wegelius-leaves-ef-education-easypost-after-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950243\/","title":{"rendered":"Charly Wegelius leaves EF Education-EasyPost after 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

EF Education-EasyPost<\/a> and head sports director Charly Wegelius are parting ways after 15 years. The team announced the news on Saturday, Escape Collective<\/a> reports. It came three days after EF confirmed that Matt White would join as a sports director<\/a>. The team has not given a reason, but the timing points to more than one coach leaving.EF said goodbye with a farewell video on Instagram. “Thank you for the incredible ride,” the team wrote. Cyclingnews<\/a> reports that Wegelius will leave at the end of the year and that he has not yet commented on why he is going.<\/p>\n

Keep reading below the photo!<\/p>\n

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EF Education Easypost has changed a lot of personnel in 2026.<\/p>\n

From domestique to head of the team car<\/p>\n

Wegelius was born in Finland and grew up in Great Britain. He spent more than a decade as a professional rider, then joined what was then Garmin-Sharp as a sports director in 2012. He was promoted to head sports director in 2018.<\/p>\n

He never won a race as a rider, although he came close with several podium finishes. His life as a helper is the subject of his book Domestique, which he wrote with Tom Southam. Southam is now a sports director at EF himself.<\/p>\n

Wegelius was still recruiting riders only weeks ago. When Tao Geoghegan Hart signed for 2027<\/a>, he said he had told Wegelius what he loves about cycling:”When I spoke to head sports director Charly Wegelius a few weeks ago I said one thing I really love about cycling is the feeling of turning up to a race hotel with fire in your belly,” the Londoner told the Hackney Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more below the video!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Matt White replaces Wegelius at EF Education<\/p>\n

White’s return was announced on October 28 after the Australian left Movistar after a single season. He began his DS career at the American team in 2008 and was dismissed in 2010 for breaching team policy.<\/p>\n

When the signing was announced, White was named as part of a directing staff that still included Wegelius, Ken Vanmarcke and Southam.<\/p>\n

Reports now differ on what happens to the top job. Cyclingnews says it is not yet clear who will become head sports director. Poland’s Naszosie<\/a>, however, reports that White is returning in exactly that role.<\/p>\n

Read more below the photo!<\/p>\n

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Carapaz took EF to the 2026 Tour de France polka- dot jersey<\/p>\n

Vaughters: ‘We needed to make some hard decisions’The change comes as EF prepare for 2027 with about 15 percent less money. According to Domestique<\/a>, the cut follows Oatly’s exit as co-sponsor of the women’s team, which shares a budget with the men’s squad, as well as rising costs.The shortfall is why Richard Carapaz<\/a> was allowed to leave for NSN<\/a> a year before his contract ran out.It was a little bit of a sad situation where our economic resources were stretched to the point that we needed to make some hard decisions.- Jonathan Vaughters\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has not been confirmed that Wegelius’s departure is to do with the budget. But with Carapaz leaving, White arriving and the head of the team car departing, EF’s 2027 set-up looks very different from the one Vaughters has relied on for most of the past decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EF Education-EasyPost and head sports director Charly Wegelius are parting ways after 15 years. The team announced the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,111365,301239,63569,85],"class_list":["post-950243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-ef-education-easypost","tag-latest-cycling-news","tag-richard-carapaz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}