The Tour de France 2025 is upon us, and 184 riders, representing 23 teams, will be competing with one walking away wearing the fabled yellow jersey. The Tour starts on Saturday, July 5, and runs until Sunday, July 7, featuring 21 different stages with two rest days.
This will be the 112th edition of the famous road race and will include a mixture of seven flat stages, six hilly stages, six mountain stages and two time trials. In all those stages, the race will visit 11 Regions in France and, for the first time since 2020, will be solely competed in France.
Below, we look further into the riders who are, and are not, competing this year, singling out a few of the favourites and some extra information on this year’s Tour de France.
Last year’s winner
Last year’s general classification winner of the Tour de France was Slovenian rider Tadej Pogačar, his third time winning the yellow jersey after also winning in 2020 and 2021. If Pogačar wins this year, he will join a special list of five other riders who have won four Tour de France titles.
Pogacar rides for UAE Team Emirates XRG and is widely regarded as one of cycling's greatest talents, solidifying his reputation last year when he became only the third male cyclist to achieve the Triple Crown of Cycling, winning the Giro, the Tour, and the World Championships in the same year.
He has been in great form in 2025, winning in the spring classics and the 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné, along with stage-race triumphs at the UAE Tour. He will no doubt be one of the favourites again this year, but he will have stiff competition.
There are three other jerseys on offer at the tour. The red polka dot jersey, awarded to the Tour de France’s leader of the best climber classification, was won by Ecuadorian rider Richard Carapaz.
The green jersey is awarded to the rider with the most points, typically the best sprinter. This went to Eritrean rider Biniam Girmay, making history as the first African to win any jersey at the Tour, and the first black African rider to win any Tour de France stage (stages three, eight and 12).
The white jersey is given to the best-placed rider under the age of 26 on time. Last year, the winner was Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel, who finished third in the general classification.
Other Tour Favourites
Pogacar’s main rival for the yellow jersey will be Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard. Vingegaard won in 2022 and 2023, and between him and Pogačar, they finished first and second at four consecutive Tours from 2021 to 2024.
For the green jersey, Girmay will be in the mix, but Lidl-Trek’s Jonathan Milan, Soudal Quick-Step’s Tim Merlier, and Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Jasper Philipsen have been earmarked as more likely winners. The three are the fastest in the peloton and will compete amongst themselves for the green.
The polka dot jersey favourites are Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale’s Felix Gall, Team Picnic PostNL’s Oscar Onley or Bahrain-Victorious’ Lenny Martinez. There is also the real possibility that it is won by the same winner of the yellow jersey, as Pogačar and Vingegaard won the polka dots as well in their wins in 2020, 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Tour Absentees
Not included in our favourites for the polka dot jersey was 2024 winner Carapaz. Sadly, he was ruled out of the race only a week before with a stomach infection.
Britain Olympic Gold medalist, Tom Pidcock, will not be involved this year after he left Ineos Grenadiers in December. Piddock joined Q36.5, a Swiss-based ProTeam, which is currently in cycling's second tier, below the World Tour and will not compete in this year’s tour, aiming for inclusion in the 2026 edition.
Team List and Riders
UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG
Tadej Pogačar (SLO), João Almeida (POR), Jhonatan Narvaez (COL), Nils Politt (GER), Pavel Sivakov (FRA), Marc Soler (ESP), Tim Wellens (BEL), Adam Yates (GBR)
TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE
Jonas Vingegaard (DEN), Edoardo Affini (ITA), Tiesj Benoot (BEL), Victor Campenaerts (BEL), Matteo Jorgenson (USA), Sepp Kuss (USA), Wout Van Aert (BEL), Simon Yates (GBR)
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP
Remco Evenepoel (BEL), Mattia Cattaneo (ITA), Pascal Eenkhoorn (NED), Tim Merlier (BEL), Valentin Paret-Peintre (FRA), Maximilian Schachmann (GER), Bert Van Lerberghe (BEL), Ilan Van Wilder (BEL)
EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST
Harry Sweeny (AUS), Neilson Powless (USA), Vincenzo Albanese (ITA), Ben Healy (IRL), Michael Valgren (DEN), Alex Baudin (FRA), Kasper Asgreen (DEN), Marijn van den Berg (NED)
INTERMARCHÉ - WANTY
Louis Barré (FRA), Vito Braet (BEL), Biniam Girmay (ERI), Hugo Page (FRA), Laurenz Rex (BEL), Jonas Rutsch (GER), Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk (NED), Georg Zimmermann (GER)
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS
Phil Bauhaus (GER), Santiago Buitrago (COL), Kamil Gradek (POL), Jack Haig (AUS), Lenny Martinez (FRA), Matej Mohorič (SLO), Robert Stannard (AUS), Fred Wright (GBR)
INEOS GRENADIERS
Thymen Arensman (NED), Tobias Foss (NOR), Filippo Ganna (ITA), Axel Laurance (FRA), Carlos Rodriguez (ESP), Connor Swift (GBR), Geraint Thomas (GBR), Sam Watson (GBR)
RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE
Florian Lipowitz (GER), Jordi Meeus (BEL), Gianni Moscon (ITA), Laurence Pithie (AUS), Primož Roglič (SLO), Mick Van Dijke (NED), Danny Van Poppel (NED), Aleksandr Vlasov (RUS)
LIDL-TREK
Simone Consonni (ITA), Jonathan Milan (ITA), Thibau Nys (BEL), Mattias Skjelmose (NED), Jasper Stuyven (BEL), Edward Theuns (BEL), Toms Skujins (LAT), Thibau Nys (BEL)
GROUPAMA-FDJ
Romain Grégoire (FRA), Valentin Madouas (FRA), Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet (FRA), Lewis Askey (GBR), Cyril Barthe (FRA), Quentin Pacher (FRA), Paul Penhoët (FRA), Clément Russo (FRA)
ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK
Mathieu van der Poel (NED) ,Jasper Philipsen (BEL), Kaden Groves (AUS), Jonas Rickaert (BEL), Emiel Verstrynge (BEL), Xandro Meurisse (BEL), Silvan Dillier (SUI), Gianni Vermeersch (BEL)
TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM
Julian Alaphilippe (FRA), Marco Haller (AUT), Marc Hirschi (FRA), Alberto Dainese (ITA), Matteo Trentin (ITA), Michael Storer (AUS), Fabian Lienhard (SUI), Marius Mayrhofer (GER)
TEAM JAYCO ALULA
Eddie Dunbar (IRE), Luke Durbridge (AUS), Dylan Groenewegen (NED), Luka Mezgec (SLO), Ben O’Connor (AUS), Luke Plapp (AUS), Elmar Reinders (NED), Mauro Schmid (SUI)
ARKEA-B&B HOTELS
Kévin Vauquelin (FRA), Cristian Rodriguez (ESP), Arnaud Démare (FRA), Amaury Capiot (BEL), Raúl García Pierna (ESP), Ewen Costiou (FRA), Mathis Le Berre (FRA), Clément Venturini (FRA)
MOVISTAR TEAM
Enric Mas (ESP), Iván Romeo (ESP), Pablo Castrillo (ESP), Einer Rubio (COL), Will Barta (USA), Gregor Mühlberger (GER), Iván García Cortina (ESP), Nelson Oliveira (POR)
DECATHLON AG2R LA MONDIALE TEAM
Bruno Armirail (FRA), Felix Gall (AUT), Stefan Bissegger (SUI), Clément Berthet (FRA), Oliver Naesen (BEL), Aurélien Paret-Peintre (FRA), Callum Scotson (AUS), Bastien Tronchon (FRA)
COFIDIS
Bryan Coquard (FRA), Alexis Renard (FRA), Damien Touzé (FRA), Alex Aranburu (ESP), Ion Izaguirre (ESP), Benjamin Thomas (FRA), Emmanuel Buchmann (GER), Dylan Teuns (BEL)
XDS ASTANA TEAM
Davide Ballerini (ITA), Cees Bol (NED), Clément Champoussin (FRA), Yevgeniy Fedorov (KAZ), Sergio Higuita (COL), Mike Teunissen (NED), Harold Tejada (COL), Simone Velasco (ITA)
TOTALENERGIES
Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA), Émilien Jeannière (FRA), Anthony Turgis (FRA), Jordan Jegat (FRA), Alexandre Delettre (FRA), Steff Cras (BEL), Mattéo Vercher (FRA), Thomas Gachinard (FRA)
TEAM PICNIC POSTNL
Tobias Lund Andresen (DEN), Oscar Onley (GBR), Frank Van Den Broek (BEL), Tim Naberman (NED), Warren Barguil (FRA), Sean Flynn (GBR), Pavel Bittner (CZE), Niklas Märkl (GER)
ISRAEL - PREMIER TECH
Pascal Ackermann (GER), Joe Blackmore (GBR), Guillaume Boivin (CAN), Matis Louvel (NED), Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ), Krists Neilands (LAT), Jake Stewart (GBR), Michael Woods (CAN)
LOTTO
Arnaud De Lie (BEL), Jasper De Buyst (BEL), Lennert Van Eetvelt (BEL), Jenno Berckmoes (BEL), Jarrad Drizners (AUS), Eduardo Sepulveda (ARG), Brent Van Moer (BEL), Sebastian Grignard (BEL)
UNO-X MOBILITY
Jonas Abrahamsen (NOR), Magnus Cort (DEN), Stian Fredheim (NOR), Markus Hoelgaard (NOR), Anders Halland Johannessen (NOR), Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR), Andreas Leknessund (NOR), Søren Wærenskjold (NOR)
The route
This year, for the first time since 2020, 100% of the tour will be in France. Of the 21 stages, seven are flat stages, six are hilly, six are mountain stages, and there are five mountain finishes. There are two time trials during the tour and two rest days as well.
You can read more about the whole route, stages and see the map on our dedicated article here.