Fresh from winning the Tour of Denmark, Mads Pedersen will lead Lidl-Trek alongside Giulio Ciccone at the Vuelta a España, which begins this Saturday, 23 August.
Teams have begun to be announced for the 80th edition of the Spanish Grand Tour, ahead of three weeks of racing from Turin, Italy, to Madrid on 14 September.
Every squad has eight riders, with varying objectives; some teams aim for the overall win or top 10 on the general classification, while others aim for stage wins, sprints or otherwise.
Pedersen, a four-time stage winner at this year's Giro d'Italia, will seek to add to his three previous Vuelta stage wins, as Lidl-Trek chase a clean sweep of points jerseys at Grand Tours this season.
He will ride with a mixed team which includes Ciccone, a three-time Giro stage winner.
Jayco AlUla head to the Vuelta with Ben O'Connor, who finished second overall last year, off the back of winning the Col de la Loze stage at the Tour de France. He will be joined by Eddie Dunbar, who crashed out of the Tour, and Chris Harper, stage winner at the Giro.
Visma-Lease a Bike will be led by Jonas Vingegaard, second at the recent Tour de France. He will attempt to win the Vuelta for the first time, to add to his two Tour crowns. Visma won the Giro d'Italia this year through Simon Yates, so would win a second Grand Tour of 2025 were they to triumph in Spain.
The Dane will be joined by Matteo Jorgenson, former winner Sepp Kuss, Victor Campenaerts, Dylan van Baarle, Wilco Kelderman, Ben Tulett and Axel Zingle.
“The overall win is our big goal, there’s no need to be coy about that,” Grischa Niermann, the team's head of racing, said. “Jonas is our leader and our biggest chance for the overall victory. But with Sepp, we have a former winner at the start, and Matteo has recovered well after the Tour de France."
UAE Team Emirates-XRG, who won the Tour through Tadej Pogačar, announced their eight for the Vuelta earlier in August, with the Slovenian absent.
They will be led by João Almeida and Juan Ayuso as they attempt to claim the red jersey; Almeida will be a top favourite alongside Vingegaard for overall victory.
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe will not bring defending champion Primož Roglič, instead targeting success through Giulio Pellizzari and Jai Hindley.
Tom Pidcock was confirmed to be leading Q36.5 Pro Cycling at the Vuelta, alongside David de la Cruz and Damien Howson.
There are six riders aged 25 or younger in EF Education-EasyPost's squad, which includes Grand Tour debuts for Archie Ryan, Markel Beloki, Lukas Nerurkar and Jardi van der Lee.
Meanwhile, Bahrain Victorious are targeting the podium through Antonio Tiberi and stage wins with an experienced eight.
Groupama-FDJ take experience and stage-winning options to the Vuelta, through Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet, Stefan Küng and David Gaudu, among others.
XDS Astana head to Spain with Harold Martín Lopez, Sergio Higuita and Harold Tejada, while Intermarché-Wanty bring Louis Meintjes and Dion Smith in a mixed squad.
Movistar are without their big GC hope Enric Mas or former winner Nairo Quintana, but do come with Pablo Castrillo, a two-time stage winner at last year's race.
There are 18 WorldTour teams and five ProTeams on the start list; the WorldTour teams have automatic entry, along with Lotto and Israel-Premier Tech as the two best-ranked ProTeams of 2024. The other three invites are handed out at the organiser's discretion.
The full list of teams set to compete at the Tour are below. We will update this page as more rosters are announced in the coming days.
Tour de France 2025 start list
Alpecin-Deceuninck
Arkéa-B&B Hotels
Bahrain Victorious
BUITRAGO Santiago (Col)
BURATTI Nicolò (Ita)
CARUSO Damiano (Ita)
ERMAKOV Roman (Rus)
HAIG Jack (Aus)
PAASCHENS Mathijs (Ned)
TIBERI Antonio (Ita)
TRÆEN Torsten (Nor)
Burgos Burpellet BH
FAGÚNDEZ Eric Antonio (Uru)
APARICIO Mario (Esp)
CHUMIL Sergio Geovani (Gua)
FAURA José Luis (Esp)
CAVIA Daniel (Esp)
DE LA CALLE Hugo (Esp)
GARCÍA PIERNA Carlos (Esp)
FERNÁNDEZ Sinuhé (Esp)
Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
BARCELÓ Fernando (Esp)
SILVA Guillermo Thomas (Uru)
OTRUBA Jakub (Cze)
BOU Joan (Esp)
NICOLAU Joel (Esp)
GUARDEÑO Jaume (Esp)
BALDERSTONE Abel (Esp)
MOLENAAR Alex (Ned)
Cofidis
CARR Simon (GBr)
ANIOŁKOWSKI Stanisław (Pol)
BUCHMANN Emanuel (Ger)
COQUARD Bryan (Fra)
HERRADA Jesús (Esp)
KNIGHT Oliver (GBr)
OURSELIN Paul (Fra)
SAMITIER Sergio (Esp)
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
EF Education-EasyPost
BELOKI Markel (Esp)
CHAVES Esteban (Col)
MIHKELS Madis (Est)
NERURKAR Lukas (GBr)
QUINN Sean (USA)
RYAN Archie (Ire)
SHAW James (GBr)
VAN DER LEE Jardi (Ned)
Groupama-FDJ
MARTIN GUYONNET Guillaume (Fra)
KÜNG Stefan (Sui)
GAUDU David (Fra)
CAVAGNA Remi (Fra)
MOLARD Rudy (Fra)
BRAZ AFONSO Clément (Fra)
ROLLAND Brieuc (Fra)
GRUEL Thibaud (Fra)
Ineos Grenadiers
Intermarché-Wanty
VAN BOVEN Luca (Bel)
SMITH Dion (NZl)
PETILLI Simone (Ita)
MEINTJES Louis (RSA)
MARIT Arne (Bel)
DE POOTER Dries (Bel)
BONNEU Kamiel (Bel)
ARTZ Huub (Ned)
Israel-Premier Tech
Jayco AlUla
DUNBAR Eddie (Ire)
O'CONNOR Ben (Aus)
HARPER Chris (Aus)
GAMPER Patrick (Aut)
BOUWMAN Koen (Ned)
FOLDAGER Anders (Den)
O'BRIEN Kelland (Aus)
JUUL-JENSEN Christopher (Den)
Lidl-Trek
PEDERSEN Mads (Den)
CICCONE Giulio (Ita)
HOOLE Daan (Ned)
KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren (Den)
VERONA Carlos (Spa)
BERNARD Julien (Fra)
BAGIOLI Andrea (Ita)
GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel (Eri)
Lotto
LIVYNS Arjen (Bel)
VIVIANI Elia (Ita)
SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo (Arg)
SLOCK Liam (Bel)
SEGAERT Alec (Bel)
DE BUYST Jasper (Bel)
GREGAARD Jonas (Den)
CRAPS Lars (Bel)
Movistar
CASTRILLO Pablo (Esp)
GARCÍA CORTINA Iván (Esp)
HESSMANN Michel (Ger)
ROMO Javier (Esp)
ARCAS Jorge (Esp)
CEPEDA Jefferson (Ecu)
CANAL Carlos (Esp)
Aular Orluis (Ven)
Picnic PostNL
Q36.5 Pro Cycling
PIDCOCK Tom (GBr)
DE LA CRUZ David (Esp)
ZUKOWSKY Nickolas (Can)
AZPARREN Xabier Mikel (Esp)
CAMPRUBÍ Marcel (Esp)
CHRISTEN Fabio (Sui)
GONZALÉZ David (Esp)
HOWSON Damien (Aus)
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
HINDLEY Jai (Aus)
VAN DIJKE Tim (Ned)
PELLIZZARI Giulio (Ita)
ALEOTTI Giovanni (Ita)
SOBRERO Matteo (Ita)
DENZ Nico (Ger)
FISHER-BLACK Finn (NZl)
KOCH Jonas (Ger)
Soudal Quick-Step
UAE Team Emirates-XRG
ALMEIDA João (Por)
SOLER Marc (Esp)
VINE Jay (Aus)
OLIVEIRA Ivo (Por)
GROẞCHARTNER Felix (Aut)
AYUSO Juan (Esp)
NOVAK Domen (Slo)
Bjerg Mikkel (Den)
Visma-Lease a Bike
VINGEGAARD Jonas (Den)
JORGENSON Matteo (USA)
KUSS Sepp (USA)
CAMPENAERTS Victor (Bel)
TULETT Ben (GBr)
ZINGLE Axel (Fra)
KELDERMAN Wilco (Ned)
VAN BAARLE Dylan (Ned)
XDS Astana
HIGUITA Sergio (Col)
TEJADA Harold (Col)
LÓPEZ Harold Martín (Ecu)
FORTUNATO Lorenzo (Ita)
CONCI Nicola (Ita)
MASNADA Fausto (Ita)
VINOKOUROV Nicolas (Kaz)
POELS Wout (Ned)
