Tour de France 2025 – The comprehensive team-by-team guide

SCHWARZSEE, SWITZERLAND - JUNE 16: Ewen Costiou of France and Team Arkea - B&B Hotels leads the peloton during the 88th Tour de Suisse, Stage 2 a 177km stage from Aarau to Schwarzsee / #UCIWT / on June 16, 2025 in Schwarzsee, Switzerland. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

Twenty-three teams will line up in the Tour de France peloton this July (Image credit: Getty Images)

With under than a week to go until the Grand Départ of the 2025 Tour de France in Lille, teams are putting the final touches on their preparations and confirming their eight-man selections for the biggest race of the year.

Having enjoyed another fairly successful campaign so far this season, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale will be looking to add more Grand Tour success to their results sheet after Nicolas Prodhomme’s triumph on stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia. Despite his impressive showing to take eighth overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné, Paul Seixas has not been selected for the Tour de France, as the team will instead focus their GC ambitions around Felix Gall.

The Austrian rider has performed well in recent editions of the Tour de France, winning the queen stage to Courchevel and finishing eighth overall in 2023 to announce himself as a GC contender for future seasons. Coming into this year’s race, Gall has shown himself to be in good form, as he finished fourth overall at the Tour de Suisse with a strong performance in the mountain time trial on the final stage.

Meanwhile, the team around him seems geared towards stage hunting, as the French outfit will look to hedge their bets across as many riders as possible during the race. Another rider in good form this season is Bruno Armirail, as strong stage racing performances have seen him win the mountains classifications at both Itzulia Basque Country and the Critérium du Dauphiné, before going on to win the time trial at the French National Championships.

Bastien Tronchon is another rider to watch, as the 23-year-old Frenchman has come into some decent form in recent months. After finishing runner-up at the Tour du Finistère in May, he went on to win Tro Bro Léon a couple of days later, marking his first victory in nearly three years. He then finished in the top 10 on two stages of the Dauphiné and has now earned himself a call-up for the Tour de France. (JL)

After the news that Richard Carapaz would be unable to start the Tour de France due to a gastrointestinal infection, EF Education-EasyPost have had to reshape their objectives going into the race, moving from a more GC-centred strategy to a sole focus on stage hunting wherever opportunities present themselves. Neilson Powless and Ben Healy will likely lead the team, as they have both shown strong form throughout the season, particularly in the Spring Classics.

Ben Healy has tasted Grand Tour success in the past, winning stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia in 2023. Last year’s Tour de France was his first participation at the race, with a fifth place finish on stage 9 as his best result. He currently has one win to his name this season, which came on stage 5 of Itzulia Basque Country in April. His other standout result was undoubtedly his podium finish at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, whilst on the final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, he showed some strong climbing form on the final climb of the Col du Mont-Cenis.

Romain Grégoire is the standout name on their eight-man roster, as his punchy and aggressive style should suit the hillier stages in the opening week. The 22-year-old’s solo move to win the opening stage of the Tour de Suisse saw him take the overall lead until the race reached its first summit finish. At the French National Championships, he just missed the title to Dorian Godon in the sprint.

The team’s GC ambitions will rest mainly on the shoulders of Guillaume Martin. The Frenchman has finished inside the top 15 in each of the last nine Grand Tours he has finished, with his highest placing being eighth at the Tour de France in 2021. Tenth overall at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné shows that he is coming into some good form just ahead of the Tour, and with plenty of opportunities for success throughout the race, do not count him out for a stage victory when the race enters more hilly terrain.

In terms of GC ambitions, Carlos Rodríguez will be the team’s protected leader, having finished fifth and seventh overall in the last two editions of the Tour. In fact, the Spaniard has never finished outside the top 10 overall in each of the four Grand Tours that he has ridden in his career. The 24-year-old recently finished ninth overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné and only seemed to get better as the race went on, which could be a sign that his form is peaking just in time for this race.

Stage wins will also be a strong priority for the team, with Filippo Ganna among their ranks as a strong contender for the flat time trial around Caen on stage 5. Though he looked slightly off the boil in the race against the clock at the Baloise Belgium Tour, he was still able to claim his fourth consecutive national time trial title and will be keen to take his first Tour de France stage win in the tricolore colours.

Geraint Thomas will also be riding in his final Tour de France, as the former winner of the maillot jaune will be retiring at the end of the season. It is currently unclear what to expect from the Welshman, as there has been no indication so far this season that he has any intention to compete for the general classification. His recent crash at the Tour de Suisse has also affected his preparation, as he was forced to abandon the race as a precaution and then opted to skip his final National Championships in Wales. (JL)

They've said they're focused squarely on stage wins – defending green is less important – and Girmay will naturally spearhead that aim, with the team heavily built around his lead-out. After the high of 2024, the 25-year-old is actually yet to win this season, partly because he missed some key stage races, but he's been up there regularly and clearly has the ability to win a Tour de France stage.

His lead-out is strong, with Hugo Page and Laurenz Rex part of his wins last year, whilst Roel van Sintmaartensdijk and Vito Braet are decent reinforcements. Though sprint stage wins seem the most likely outcome for Intermarché, they will also have half an eye on breakaways and opportunities – don't be surprised to see them represented in the break, even on flat stages, where Jonas Rutsch could be a good option.

As for the GC, the absence of Tao Geoghegan Hart means Skjelmose is in a party of one when it comes to the climbers. The Amstel Gold Race winner has struggled with illness and injury for the last couple of months, but did demonstrate his form with a win at the Andorra MoraBanc Classic a week and a half ago. He might still be thinking about a top 10, but with so little climbing support, that may be a tough ask. (MP)

It's definitely not all about GC at Red Bull, though, with a team made up of as many puncheurs and sprinters as climbers. Meeus has got sprint leadership over Sam Welsford, who is being left at home, and he'll be supported by the inimitable Danny van Poppel, whilst the likes of Laurence Pithie and Mick van Dijke will be useful in the tougher, Classics-style stages of the first half of the race. (MP)

Ben O’Connor, who has a knack of managing to get away in just the right move, has clearly proven that his fourth place in 2021 was no fluke through the intervening years – now having won stages and taken top four slots across all the Grand Tours including second overall at Vuelta a España – but in the pressure cooker of a French team at their all important home race did not return to the same heights delivered on debut.

Turgis is back again, but he's far from being the only breakaway specialist in the Tour squad with the most markedly French feel to its lineup, given Belgian climber Steff Cras is the one foreigner. Alexandre Delettre was recently just one step off the podium in the recent Nationals road race, and Mathieu Burgaudeau was repeatedly on the attack in the Dauphiné. Mattéo Vercher, responsible for one of their six wins this season at the GP Doubs, also snaffled a second place in a transition stage of the Tour last year behind Victor Campenaerts.

Two Tour de France wins and two runner-up spots in the last four years cannot be argued with, after all, particularly as last July's second place has to be taken in the context of a lengthy recovery from a life-threatening crash in April in Itzulia Basque Country. That mass pile-up shaped the entire year for multiple GC contenders, but arguably none more than Vingegaard and after a stinging defeat at the hands of Pogačar in 2024, he'll be gunning for a very different result in 2025.

So high are the stakes that even climbers as talented as Simon Yates, the recent Giro d'Italia winner and Sepp Kuss, the Vuelta a España champion of less than two years ago, will be working for Vingegaard. Jorgenson may have a mixture of roles, from GC candidate to one of Vingegaard's key high mountains supporters, while Edoardo Affini, Tiesj Benoot and Victor Campenaerts will likely be doing a lot of the teamwork on the flat.

Then there's Wout van Aert: the ultra-versatile Belgian has won everything from mountain stages (including one over the Ventoux) to bunch sprints to time trials, and he's also regularly called on as a team worker. It remains to be seen if a late illness that left him out of the Belgian Nationals has any further effects. If not, expect Van Aert to be a potential factor in almost any stage, right from day one in Lille. (AF)

Six stage wins in 2025 – the most in the mountains since Gino Bartali in 1948 – and the overall victory by the biggest winning margin of all three of his Tours conquered so far is an almost ridiculously high bar for Pogačar to have set. Normal logic would dictate that Vingegaard, having more ground to make up since his 2024 crash, will be able to close the gap. But normal logic long since stopped applying to Pogačar's sporting achievements.

The UAE Team Emirates-XRG team itself is virtually identical to 2024, with only the exit of Juan Ayuso and his replacement by Ecuadorian all-rounder Jhonatan Narváez the one change. Beyond that, Nils Politt and Belgian champion Tim Wellens will have their fair share of flatland duties, Sivakov and Narváez will be on patrol in the hilly stages, and Adam Yates, Marc Soler and João Almeida will be the key figures supporting Pogačar in the mountains.

Lacking their talismanic sprinter veteran leader, Alexandre Kristoff, one of the key names to watch is undoubtedly Magnus Cort. An ultra-fast breakaway specialist with two Tour de France and six Vuelta a España stage wins to his name, Cort did not produce any victories in the 2024 Tour. But as his sixth place in Strade Bianche, sixth place in Milano-San Remo and overall victory in the hilly O Gran Camiño testify the 32-year-old Dane cannot be ruled out in any sort of scenario.

Søren Wærenskjold already provided the team with one of its biggest successes to date, in the bunch sprint that concluded an otherwise very lacklustre edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. He could well be a factor in the grittier first stages of northern and western France. Andreas Leknessund, meanwhile, has just added the Norwegian road title to his national time trial golds from a few years back and is likewise very much an excellent all-rounder.

Much as the team raced in the Giro d'Italia, the 2025 Tour de France is raced with a string of stage hunters and no standout leader. Some like sprinters Cees Bol and Davide Ballerini, as well as Kazakh time trialling giant and former U23 champion Yevgeniy Fedorov, are 'veterans' from the Cavendish Tour. Others like former Tour de France leader Mike Teunissen, former Vuelta a España summit finish winner Clément Champoussin and week-long specialist Sergio Higuita are all new to the much overhauled XDS-Astana this year.

Dani Ostanek is Senior News Writer at Cyclingnews, having joined in 2017 as a freelance contributor, later being hired full-time. Her favourite races include Strade Bianche, the Tour de France Femmes, Paris-Roubaix, and Tro-Bro Léon.

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Tour de France 2025 – The comprehensive team-by-team guide

Alpecin-Deceuninck

Arkéa-B&B Hotels

Bahrain Victorious

Cofidis

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale

EF Education-EasyPost

Groupama-FDJ

Ineos Grenadiers

Intermarché-Wanty

Israel-Premier Tech

Lidl-Trek

Lotto

Movistar

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

Soudal-QuickStep

Jayco-AlUla

Picnic-PostNL

TotalEnergies

Visma-Lease a Bike

Tudor Pro Cycling

UAE Team Emirates-XRG

Uno-X Mobility

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