Tour de France 2025: our full team-by-team guide and the final start list

The 2025 Tour de France is about to get underway and the 23 teams involved have confirmed their eight-man teams.

Even at this point, however, before the race begins, riders can be replaced, with teams having two reserves standing by should last-minute calamity strike.

All 18 WorldTour teams are given automatic selection for the race, with two teams – Lotto and Israel-Premier Tech – also awarded a place for being the top two ProTeams from 2024.

Three teams – Uno-X Mobility, Tudor and TotalEnergies – were awarded wildcard invitations.

Alpecin-Deceuninck

• Highest GC 2024: 96
• TDF stage wins: 11
• 2024 UCI ranking: 8

Since his successful 2021 debut, Mathieu van der Poel has had a solitary top-10 finish in three further editions of the Tour.

More often serving as a star domestique for sprinter Jasper Philipsen, the grind of Grand Tours doesn’t seem to suit his explosive nature – he’s at his best leaving it all out on the road in one-day races.

That said, there are a number of stages early on this year that suit his strengths, notably a return to the summit finish of Mur de Bretagne – the scene of that win in 2021.

Australian sprinter Kaden Groves is maturing nicely and his ability to climb will be a strength for his debut at the race.

Team

Mathieu van der Poel
Jasper Philipsen
Kaden Groves
Jonas Rickaert
Emiel Verstrynge
Xandro Meurisse
Silvan Dillier
Gianni Vermeersch

Arkea-B&B Hotels

• Highest GC 2024: 36
• TDF stage wins: 1
• 2024 UCI ranking: 19

Kévin Vauquelin clinched his team’s first Tour stage win last season, striking out from the break on stage two in Bologna in what was only his second Tour stage.

Second at La Flèche Wallonne in 2024 marked him out as a rider with speed on hilly finishes.

He began 2025 well with victory in Étoile de Bessèges, albeit amid walkouts from other teams because of concerns over rider safety.

Arnaud Démare had two top-10 finishes last year, but with seven years having passed since his last stage win, time is running out for the mercurial Frenchman, now 33.

Team

Raul Garcia Pierna
Arnaud Démare
Amaury Capiot
Kévin Vauquelin
Cristian Rodriguez
Ewen Costiou
Mathis Le Berre
Clément Venturini

Bahrain-Victorious

• Highest GC 2024: 10
• TDF stage wins: 8
• 2024 UCI ranking: 17

The team tumbled down the rankings last season, but given their 2023 performance, are in no danger of relegation.

They felt the loss of Jonathan Milan in 2024, while Pello Bilbao, sixth at the 2023 Tour, abandoned on stage 12.

He focused on the Giro this season, so the team will look to Frenchman Lenny Martinez, winner of a hilly Paris-Nice stage in March and a mountain stage of the Dauphine in June, and Colombian Santiago Buitrago, 10th overall at the Tour in 2024, for success.

Former British national champion Fred Wright, who was eliminated by the time cut in 2024, possesses stage-winning threat when on form.

Team

Lenny Martinez
Santiago Buitrago
Matej Mohorič
Phil Bauhaus
Kamil Gradek
Jack Haig
Robert Stannard
Fred Wright

Cofidis

• Highest GC 2024: 13
• TDF stage wins: 12
• 2024 UCI ranking: 20

Another team hanging just above the WorldTour relegation trapdoor, Cofidis reshuffled their pack in the winter.

GC safe pair of hands Guillaume Martin moved on to Groupama-FDJ, while in came Dylan Teuns, Emanuel Buchmann and Alex Aranburu.

Buchmann has a Tour de France best of fourth, though that was six years ago, while Teuns has two stage wins.

Both are probably past their peak, but that’s why Cofidis, a perennial small fish in a big pond, has been able to sign them.

Benjamin Thomas will have to go some to beat his 2024 achievements, when he won a Giro stage and Olympic gold in the omnium.

Team

Alex Aranburu
Emanuel Buchmann
Bryan Coquard
Ion Izagirre
Alexis Renard
Benjamin Thomas
Damien Touzé
Dylan Teuns

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team

• Highest GC 2024: 14
• TDF stage wins: 22
• 2024 UCI ranking: 6

With their WorldTour status secure for 2026 and beyond, Decathlon let go some of their older riders for various reasons – Edvald Boasson Hagen retired, Larry Warbasse’s contract expired and Ben O’Connor joined Jayco-AlUla – but they were replaced with youthful promise, such as the highly rated French rider Paul Seixas.

That won’t guarantee them immediate success, and it’s been a slower start to 2025 than last year.

Austrian Felix Gall was eighth in the 2023 Tour and will lead the team this summer, while new signing Stefan Bissegger is a lively time triallist.

Team

Bruno Armirail
Stefan Bissegger
Clément Berthet
Felix Gall
Oliver Naesen
Aurélien Paret-Peintre
Callum Scotson
Bastien Tronchon

EF Education-EasyPost

• Highest GC 2024: 17
• TDF stage wins: 11
• 2024 UCI ranking: 12

Richard Carapaz, so close to victory at the Giro d'Italia in May, would have been a big threat for the team, but withdrew late with a stomach bug.

That means EF, as so often, will arrive chasing stages and have plenty of riders on their books capable of wins here.

Ireland’s Ben Healy, notably, has won at the Giro, as well as achieving a hatful of high placings, including fourth at this year’s Strade Bianche.

A Tour stage would feel about right at this point in his development.

Team

Harry Sweeny
Neilson Powless
Ben Healy
Vincenzo Albanese
Michael Valgren
Alex Baudin
Kasper Asgreen
Marijn van den Berg

Groupama-FDJ

• Highest GC 2024: 25
• TDF stage wins: 13
• 2024 UCI ranking: 10

Losing two of their best and most promising performers – Lenny Martinez and Laurence Pithie – in the winter to rival teams was a huge blow.

Martinez is seen as a future Tour contender and saw moving abroad, to lead a team without the added spotlight that comes when that team is French, as the right career move.

David Gaudu, their perennial hope on GC, wasn't selected due to poor form, which means Guillaume Martin, who transferred from Cofidis in the off-season, will lead their line and will have top-10 ambitions.

Team

Lewis Askey
Cyril Barthe
Romain Gregoire
Valentin Madouas
Guillaume Martin
Quentin Pacher
Paul Penhoet
Clement Russo

Ineos Grenadiers

• Highest GC 2024: 7
• TDF stage wins: 21
• 2024 UCI ranking: 7

The upheaval at Ineos Sport – the umbrella organisation behind the team, which also co-owns Manchester United FC – has cast doubt on the Grenadiers’ future.

Does a distracted Sir Jim Ratcliffe have the interest and patience to turn around the fortunes of this listing team?

After years of plenty, they’ve had to get used to not having the best GC riders on their books, and in this, Geraint Thomas’ final year, that chapter of the Sky years will end.

A bright spot has been the form of Filippo Ganna, who had a good Classics season. He’ll fancy the flat time trial in the Tour’s opening week.

Team

Carlos Rodriguez
Filippo Ganna
Connor Swift
Geraint Thomas
Thymen Arensman
Sam Watson
Tobias Foss
Axel Laurance

Intermarché-Wanty

A slump down the rankings in 2024 compared to the highs of 2023 was more commensurate with the team’s low budget, but they find themselves well placed to retain their WorldTour status into 2026.

Despite that fall, the team’s wins in 2024 were more prestigious and arrived exclusively from Biniam Girmay, whose breakthrough Tour de France brought him three stage wins and the green points jersey.

The 25-year-old Eritrean finished the year ninth in the UCI rankings. His ability to win sprints and climb comfortably means he’s out to once again target the green jersey.

Team

Biniam Girmay
Hugo Page
Laurenz Rex
Georg Zimmermann
Louis Barre
Vito Braet
Jonas Rutsch
Roel van Sintmaartensdijk

Israel-Premier Tech

• Highest GC 2024: 9
• TDF stage wins: 3
• 2024 UCI ranking: 11

The trend in elite men’s cycling is to invest in youth over experience. Israel-Premier Tech are an outlier with the highest average age (29.2) of any squad in the top two tiers.

While results for the likes of Jakob Fuglsang and Chris Froome (both 40) have long since dried up, it’s the team’s younger riders who are now making an impact.

Canadian Derek Gee finished ninth on GC at the Tour last year, but misses out after a gruelling but successful Giro campaign in the spring. 22-year-old Joseph Blackmore, the 2024 Tour de l’Avenir winner, is a hugely talented Brit who'll be making his debut at the race.

Team

Pascal Ackermann
Joseph Blackmore
Michael Woods
Alexey Lutsenko
Jake Stewart
Guillaume Boivin
Matis Louvel
Krists Neilands

Lidl-Trek

• Highest GC 2024: 11
• TDF stage wins: 8
• 2024 UCI ranking: 4

Lidl-Trek’s team looks strong even without Mads Pedersen, the two-time stage winner who signalled at the start of the season that he’d be skipping the race to focus on the Classics and Giro.

Powerhouse sprinter Jonathan Milan, a four- time Giro stage winner over the past two seasons, is set to make his debut, but 2020 Giro winner Tao Geoghegan Hart again misses out on the race, after illness struck at the Tour de Suisse.

Young Dane Mattias Skjelmose had a brilliant 2024 with a win at Amstel Gold Race over Tadej Pogacar showed an even higher level this year.

Team

Edward Theuns
Thibau Nys
Jasper Stuyven
Simone Consonni
Jonathan Milan
Mattias Skjelmose
Toms Skujins
Quinn Simmons

Lotto

• Highest GC 2024: 81
• TDF stage wins: 41
• 2024 UCI ranking: 9

Wildcard Lotto receive automatic Tour qualification for finishing as one of the best two ranked ProTeams in 2024, yet over the past two seasons they’ve done much better than that, finishing inside the UCI top-10 rankings.

That included a Tour stage win for Victor Campenaerts, who’s since departed for Visma-Lease a Bike.

Much of their optimism for this year’s race will be centred on 2024 Belgian national champion Arnaud De Lie.

The sprinter and Classics specialist has netted his team a huge haul of points over the past three seasons in many minor races and will hope he can step up to the big time this July.

Team

Arnaud De Lie
Lennert van Eetvelt
Jasper De Buyst
Jenno Berckmoes
Jarrad Drizners
Eduardo Sepulveda
Brent van Moer
Sebastien Grignard

Movistar Team

• Highest GC 2024: 19
• TDF stage wins: 34
• 2024 UCI ranking: 13

Some years have passed since the peak of Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde, and the long-running Spanish team have struggled to replace them.

They’ll likely be represented by their past, present and future at the race this summer.

Enric Mas is a perennial Grand Tour nearly man, finishing on the Vuelta podium four times without ever mounting a serious challenge for the red jersey.

He’ll be on the start line in Lille and has a point to prove at the race, where he hasn’t had a result since 2021.

Young Iván Romeo, U23 world TT champion, will make his debut in the race in wonderful form, after wins at the Dauphine and the Spanish nationals road race.

Team

Pablo Castrillo
Enric Mas
Nelson Oliviera
Einer Rubio
Ivan Romeo
Gregor Muhlberger
Will Barta
Ivan Garcia Cortina

Red Bull Bora-hansgrohe

• Highest GC 2024: 18
• TDF stage wins: 11
• 2024 UCI ranking: 5

Red Bull Bora-hansgrohe's big-money signing for 2024, Primož Roglič, failed to ignite at the Tour.

The Slovenian crashed on stage 12, breaking a bone in his lower back, yet made a remarkable recovery to win the Vuelta a España two months later.

This year, he'll want to conjure up something similar, following his Giro withdrawal in May.

If mounting a serious yellow-jersey challenge is beyond him, he’ll be keen to add to his stage-win haul, which has been stuck on three since 2020.

Team

Primož Roglič
Florian Lipowitz
Aleksandr Vlasov
Laurence Pithie
Mick van Dijke
Gianni Moscon
Danny van Poppel
Jordi Meeus

Soudal Quick-Step

• Highest GC 2024: 3
• TDF stage wins: 51
• 2024 UCI ranking: 3

Remco Evenepoel’s bid to better his third place on Tour debut last year suffered a major setback in December when he was car-doored on a training ride.

Bone breaks, ligament tears, a dislocated clavicle and lung contusions were among a litany of injuries.

He made his comeback at the Ardennes Classics in April, finishing third at Amstel Gold. A win in the time trial against Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard at the Dauphine was overshadowed by struggles against the pair in the mountains.

This being Soudal Quick-Step, he’ll have to share leadership with his compatriot, the sprinter Tim Merlier, who has stage wins in all three Grand Tours and started 2025 in fine form.

Team

Remco Evenepoel
Mattia Cattaneo
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Tim Merlier
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Max Schachmann
Bert van Lerberghe
Ilan van Wilder

Team Jayco-AlUla

• Highest GC 2024: 12
• TDF stage wins: 10
• 2024 UCI ranking: 14

Major changes at the top of the stage-racing tree in the team took place in the off-season.

Simon Yates, who won the Vuelta with the team back in 2018, departed for Visma-Lease a Bike after 11 years’ service.

In his place came Australian Ben O’Connor, racing for his native team for the first time.

O’Connor, 29, enjoyed the season of his career in 2024 with fourth at the Giro and second at the Vuelta, and will look to equal or better his best Tour result of fourth in 2021.

Dylan Groenewegen will provide an alternative on the flat, for a team that has a proud history of winning stages.

Team

Ben O’Connor
Luke Plapp
Mauro Schmid
Dylan Groenewegen
Eddie Dunbar
Luke Durbridge
Luka Mezgec
Elmar Reinders

Team Picnic-PostNL

• Highest GC 2024: 30
• TDF stage wins: 20
• 2024 UCI ranking: 16

The Dutch team are teetering on the brink of relegation after a rough few years and it’s a battle that’s likely to be a season-long one.

Youth development has been a key component of the team’s mission over recent years; with the third youngest WorldTour squad, in lean times it can mean a lack of leaders to raise them up.

Romain Bardet’s successful period with the team ended in June when he retired after the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Scotland’s Oscar Onley, riding the Tour again after coming 39th in 2024, is maturing nicely after being in the team’s development squad.

Team

Tobias Lund Andresen
Frank van den Broek
Tim Naberman
Warren Barguil
Sean Flynn
Oscar Onley
Pavel Bittner
Niklas Markl

Team Visma – Lease a Bike

• Highest GC 2024: 2
• TDF stage wins: 72
• 2024 UCI ranking: 2

The Dutch team’s bid to wrest back the yellow jersey from UAE Team Emirates-XRG will be led by two-time champion Jonas Vingegaard.

A crash at Paris-Nice put him out of Volta a Catalunya and he didn't race again until the Dauphiné – a complete contrast to Tadej Pogačar, who raced a full Classics campaign in the spring.

Vingegaard’s support team looks to be the equal of his rival’s, albeit of a different make-up – Wout van Aert, Matteo Jorgenson and Sepp Kuss will carry Vingegaard across the full suite of terrain at the Tour.

Team

Jonas Vingegaard
Edoardo Affini
Tiesj Benoot
Victor Campanaerts
Matteo Jorgenson
Sepp Kuss
Wout van Aert
Simon Yates

Team TotalEnergies

• Highest GC 2024: 16
• TDF stage wins: 11
• 2024 UCI ranking: 23

Nearly man Anthony Turgis claimed the biggest win of his career at last year’s Tour, prevailing in the madcap gravel stage nine in a much-reduced sprint that included Tom Pidcock.

It was Turgis’ seventh consecutive start in the race, a period that coincided with the team’s winless run at the Tour.

Another of the wildcard picks, TotalEnergies were always likely to get the nod because of being French, but the decision was made easier following the decision to allow one further wildcard pick for Grand Tours.

It takes the team numbers to 23 and total riders to 184.

Team

Mathieu Burgaudeau
Emilien Jeanniere
Anthony Turgis
Jordan Jegat
Alexandre Delettre
Steff Cras
Matteo Vercher
Thomas Gachignard

Tudor Pro Cycling

• Highest GC 2024: -
• TDF stage wins: 0
• 2024 UCI ranking: 22

This new-ish Swiss team, owned by Classics legend Fabian Cancellara, stocked up on proven WorldTour talent ahead of a tilt at Tour de France wildcard selection in 2025.

Julian Alaphilippe, Cancellara protégé Marc Hirschi and Marco Haller all signed on for 2025 and beyond, adding serious ballast to a squad in short supply of it.

All three will start in Lille, with both Alaphilippe and Hirschi past stage winners.

Both have endured lean years of late, and there’s a question mark over whether Alaphilippe can roll back the years, because he’ll be 33 years old by the time the race starts.

Team

Julian Alaphilippe
Alberto Dainese
Marco Haller
Marc Hirschi
Fabian Lienhard
Marius Mayrhofer
Michael Storer
Matteo Trentin

UAE Team Emirates-XRG

• Highest GC 2024: 1
• TDF stage wins: 29
• 2024 UCI ranking: 1

When once Tadej Pogačar would win this race despite the strength of his team, such is the calibre of climbers and domestiques who’ve been assembled around him that, in 2025, it’s very much a group effort – despite Pogačar’s stratospheric talent at racing bikes.

Adam Yates, João Almeida, Tim Wellens and new signing Jhonatan Narváez are all luxury teammates for the three-time and defending champion, who’ll start as favourite after his romp to the yellow jersey last summer, when he won a quite-frankly ridiculous six stages.

Team

Tadej Pogacar
Joao Almeida
Jhonatan Narvaez
Nils Politt
Pavel Sivakov
Marc Soler
Tim Wellens
Adam Yates

Uno-X Mobility

• Highest GC 2024: 34
• TDF stage wins: 0
• 2024 UCI ranking: 18

Often, there’s a rider during a particular Tour – one that you may not have heard of before – who lights up the three weeks with repeated days up in the breakaway and sometimes even a win.

Last year, it was the turn of Jonas Abrahamsen, who spent much of the first half of the race in the polka-dot jersey.

At 29, he’s no spring chicken, but the experience could be a springboard to even bigger heights this year. He's defied injury to make the start line too, having taken only nine days to recover from a collarbone fracture.

In a squad made up entirely of Norwegians and Danes, other threats come from Tobias Halland Johannessen (GC) and Magnus Cort (stage hunting).

Team

Magnus Cort
Soren Waerenskjold
Andreas Leknessund
Tobias Halland Johannessen
Anders Halland Johannessen
Jonas Abrahamsen
Markus Hoelgaard
Stian Fredheim

XDS Astana Team

• Highest GC 2024: 74
• TDF stage wins: 17
• 2024 UCI ranking: 21

The arrival of Chinese bike brand XDS as a title sponsor has ushered in a new era at Astana, following the ultimately successful stay of Mark Cavendish as he sought to win his 35th Tour stage before retirement.

A positive start to the 2025 season – third in the UCI rankings at the start of April – was much needed, as the team stare down the barrel of relegation from the WorldTour, which takes into account performances between 2023 and 2025 for the next round of licences in 2026.

Stage wins in the Tour de France are a good place to gain ground, with 210 points on offer every day.

Team

Simone Velasco
Harold Tejada
Clement Champoussin
Sergio Higuita
Mike Teunissen
Yevgeniy Fedorov
Davide Ballerini
Cees Bol