Davide Malacarne is an Italian former multi-discipline cyclist. He competed professionally in road racing between 2009 and 2016 for the Quick-Step, Team Europcar and Astana teams, won the junior race at the 2005 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, and rode in mountain biking for the DMT Racing team.

Astana Qazaqstan Team is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana attained UCI ProTeam status in its inaugural year, 2007. Following a major doping scandal involving Kazakh rider Alexander Vinokourov, team management was terminated and new management brought in for the 2008 season. The team was then managed by Johan Bruyneel, former team manager of U.S. Postal/Discovery Channel team. Under Bruyneel the ethical nature of the team did not improve, although Astana in this period was very successful.