Bryan Coquard, Thomas Voeckler, Sylvain Chavanel and Romain Sicard will be the main riders at Jean-Rene Bernaudeau's Direct Energie team. The team which has been known as Europcar in 2015 will reduce its roster from 26 to 21 riders.

Bernaudeau has managed to retain Coquard, world and European champion and on the track and second on the Champs Elysees in the 2015 Tour de France, as well as Voeckler who has been with the team since 2001, and Sicard who will be the stage race leader.

The main signings are Chavanel (IAM) who returns after riding with Bernaudeau until 2004, and Adrien Petit (Cofidis). Lilian Calmejane, Romain Cardis, Fabien Grellier and Jérémy Cornu move up from the amateur team Vendée U.

15 riders will stay with the team. In addition to Coquard, Voeckler and Sicard, Yohann Gene, Bryan Nauleau, Alexandre Pichot, Perrig Quemeneur, Angelo Tulik, Fabrice Jeandesboz, Tony Hurel, Antoine Duchesne, Romain Guillemois and neo-pros Thomas Boudat, Julien Morice and Guillaume Thevenot will continue, according to information revealed in the newspaper Ouest France 

11 riders will leave the team: Pierre Rolland (Cannondale-Garmin) , Cyril Gautier (AG2R La Mondiale) , Yukiya Arashiro (Lampre-Merida) , Yannick Martinez (Marseille 13 KTM), Jimmy Engoulvent (moves to a role in the technical staff), Giovanni Bernaudeau (retires) and Vincent Jérôme, Morgan Lamoisson, Maxime Méderel and Namibian Dan Craven whose futures are all uncertain.