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, Mattias Skjelmose, Tom Pidcock, Lenny Martinez, Romain Grégoire and double winner Remco Evenepoel. Who are the other contenders? Cyclingstage.com brings you the start list.

This is the final start list - last updated 25 April 2026

World Tour Teams

Alpecin - Premier Tech
Francesco Busatto, Emiel Verstrynge, Hugo Houle, Ramses Debruyne, Tobias Bayer, Aaron Dockx, Gal Glivar

Bahrain Victorious
Lenny Martinez, Pello Bilbao, Antonio Tiberi, Santiago Buitrago, Afonso Eulálio, Fran Miholjevic, Pau Miquel

Decathlon CMA CGM
Paul Seixas, Paul Lapeira, Jordan Labrosse, Stan Dewulf, Léo Bisiaux, Antoine L'Hote, Nicolas Prodhomme

EF Education - EasyPost
Alex Baudin, Mikkel Honoré, Michael Leonard, Lukas Nerurkar, James Shaw, Jardi Christiaan van der Lee, Max Walker

Groupama - FDJ United
Romain Grégoire, Ewen Costiou, Guillaume Martin, Kevin Geniets, Rudy Molard, Quentin Pacher, Enzo Paleni

INEOS Grenadiers
Egan Bernal, Laurens De Plus, Jack Haig, Bob Jungels, Kévin Vauquelin, Axel Laurance, Brandon Smith Rivera

Lidl - Trek
Mattias Skjelmose, Giulio Ciccone, Julien Bernard, Patrick Konrad, Jacopo Mosca, Matteo Sobrero, Carlos Verona

Lotto - Intermarché
Lennert Van Eetvelt, Luca Van Boven, Lorenzo Rota, Reuben Thompson, Robin Orins, Georg Zimmermann, Baptiste Veistroffer

Movistar
Cian Uijtdebroeks, Iván Romeo, Davide Formolo, Roger Adrià, Raúl García Pierna, Natnael Tesfatsion, Pavel Novák

NSN Cycling
Marco Frigo, George Bennett, Alessandro Pinerallo, Nick Schultz, Brady Gilmore, Pau Martí, Krists Neilands

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
Remco Evenepoel, Daniel Felipe Martínez, Jai Hindley, Jan Tratnik, Nico Denz, Haimar Etxeberria, Finn Fisher-Black

Soudal - QuickStep
Maximilian Schachmann, Mauri Vansevenant, Dylan van Baarle, Louis Vervaeke, Filippo Zana, Steff Cras, Pascal Eenkhoorn

Team Jayco AlUla
Ben O'Connor, Alessandro Covi, Mauro Schmid, Anders Foldager, Andrea Vendrame, Alan Hatherly, Asbjørn Hellemose

Team Picnic PostNL
Frank van den Broek, Gijs Leemreize, Matt Dinham, Alexy Faure Prost, Chris Hamilton, James Knox, Bjorn Koerdt

UAE Emirates - XRG
Tadej Pogacar, Benoît Cosnefroy, Pavel Sivakov, Tim Wellens, Domen Novak, Vegard Stake Laengen, Rune Herregodts

Uno-X Mobility
Tobias Halland Johannessen, Magnus Cort, Andreas Leknessund, Andreas Kron, Anthon Charmig, Anders Halland Johannessen, Alexander Kamp

Visma | Lease a Bike
Steven Kruijswijk, Ben Tulett, Filippo Fiorelli, Owain Doull, Menno Huising, Pietro Mattio, Tim Rex

XDS Astana Team
Diego Ulissi, Clément Champoussin, Christian Scaroni, Nicola Conci, Anton Kuzmin, Davide Toneatti, Simone Velasco

ProTeams

Burgos Burpellet BH
Jesús Herrada, Jambaljamts Sainbayar, Clément Alleno, Lorenzo Quartucci, Martín Rey, Eric Antonio Fagúndez, Josh Burnett

Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
Jakub Otruba, Alex Molenaar, Joan Bou, Fernando Barceló, Eduard Prades, Joseba López, Joel Nicolau

Cofidis
Ion Izagirre, Dylan Teuns, Sam Maisonobe, Jan Maas, Paul Ourselin, Yaël Joalland, Louis Roulland

Equipo Kerm Pharma
Pablo Carrascosa, Iñigo Elosegui, Unai Iribar, César Pérez, Mikel Retegi, Diego Uriarte, Mats Wenzel

Pinarello Q36.5
Tom Pidcock, Quinten Hermans, Xabier Mikel Azparren, Sjoerd Bax, Marcel Camprubí, Chris Harper, Xandro Meurisse

TotalEnergies
Alexandre Delettre, Mathieu Burgaudeau, Joris Delbove, Thibault Guernalec, Alan Jousseaume, Mathis Le Berre, Mattéo Vercher

Tudor
Fabian Weiss, Hannes Wilksch, Robin Donzé, Joel Suter, Roland Thalmann, Larry Warbasse, Marco Brenner