Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2026: Riders

fotobureau Cor VosTadej Pogacar returns to Liège-Bastogne-Liège to defend his crown in a field featuring last year's runner-up Giulio Ciccone, Paul Seixas, Juan Ayuso, Mattias Skjelmose, Tom Pidcock, Ben Healy and double winner Remco Evenepoel. Who are the other contenders? Cyclingstage.com brings you the start list.

This is the provisional start list - first published 13 April 2026

World Tour Teams

Alpecin - Premier Tech
Francesco Busatto, Emiel Verstrynge, Hugo Houle

Bahrain Victorious
Lenny Martinez, Pello Bilbao, Afonso Eulálio

Decathlon CMA CGM
Paul Seixas, Paul Lapeira, Aurelien Paret-Peintre, Jordan Labrosse

EF Education - EasyPost
Ben Healy, Alex Baudin, Samuele Battistella, Mikkel Honoré

Groupama - FDJ United
Romain Grégoire, Ewen Costiou, Brieuc Rolland, Guillaume Martin

INEOS Grenadiers
Michael Kwiatkowski, Kévin Vauquelin, Axel Laurance, Victor Langellotti

Lidl - Trek
Mattias Skjelmose, Giulio Ciccone, Juan Ayuso

Lotto - Intermarché
Lennert Van Eetvelt, Jarno Widar

Movistar
Iván García, Roger Adrià, Raúl García Pierna, Lorenzo Milesi, Pavel Novák, Gonzalo Serrano, Natnael Tesfatsion

NSN Cycling
Joe Blackmore, Nick Schultz

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
Remco Evenepoel, Daniel Felipe Martínez, Jan Tratnik

Soudal - QuickStep
Ilan Van Wilder, Maximilian Schachmann, Mauri Vansevenant, Andrea Raccagni Noviero

Team Jayco AlUla
Koen Bouwman, Alessandro Covi, Mauro Schmid

Team Picnic PostNL
Frank van den Broek

UAE Emirates - XRG
Tadej Pogacar, Benoît Cosnefroy, Pavel Sivakov, Tim Wellens

Uno-X Mobility
Tobias Halland Johannessen, Magnus Cort, Andreas Kron

Visma | Lease a Bike
Matteo Jorgenson, Louis Barré, Ben Tulett, Filippo Fiorelli

XDS Astana Team
Diego Ulissi, Clément Champoussin, Christian Scaroni

ProTeams

Burgos Burpellet BH

Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
Jakub Otruba, Alex Molenaar

Cofidis
Ion Izagirre, Dylan Teuns, Alex Aranburu

Pinarello Q36.5
Tom Pidcock, Quinten Hermans

TotalEnergies
Alexandre Delettre

Tudor
Julian Alaphilippe, Marc Hirschi