Team Giant-Alpecin heads into the seven-day Eneco Tour without last year's third placed overall Tom Dumoulin (NED), but with a strong, opportunistic line-up capable of fighting for stage results across varied terrain.

Nikias Arndt (GER) continues here after the Tour de Pologne and will be looking towards the sprint stages, while Tour de France stage winner Simon Geschke (GER) returns to action after his successful Tour.

The team will be captained by Roy Curvers (NED), while Chad Haga (USA) and Tobias Ludvigsson (SWE) will have an eye on the individual time trial on stage four. The line-up is then completed by Georg Preidler (AUT) and Albert Timmer (NED), both of whom also return to racing after Le Tour, as well as Zico Waeytens (BEL).

"With Tom Dumoulin out after his crash at the Tour de France we are focusing on stage wins here both with Nikias as our sprinter and with Simon for the more difficult stages," explained coach Rudi Kemna. "The last three days will be very difficult and the time trial will be decisive for the overall. 

"We will see how far we can go with Tobias for the GC battle, and for this we will need to ride well together as a team, especially early on when the race starts in the north of The Netherlands where we can expect there to be a lot of wind."