Tour de France 2022 start list: The confirmed riders for this year’s race
All the riders who we know will be in attendance at the Grand Départ in Copenhagen
While rumours swell about each team's potential Tour de France roster months before the race is due to start, most squads aren’t officially announced until the week leading up to the event. Many teams tend to wait until warm-up races like the Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de Suisse are wrapped up to finalise their line-ups, as this is a final indication of each rider’s form ahead of the main event a few weeks later.
The Tour is undoubtedly a race synonymous with big mountain passes, but this doesn’t mean all sports directors want to bring a bus full of climbers. GC teams will need bigger riders who can protect the leader on flatter stages where there are risks of crosswinds and keep them safe in hectic bunch finishes. It’s also important to bring those with big engines to do work early on in the stage to control the breakaway before the race hits some of the longer climbs.
There’s also the teams, such as Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl, who will have made their selection with the sprint stages and green jersey competition in mind. This means they will likely bring a group of strong lead out men who can deliver their sprinter to the line, rather than focussing on riders who will contest the general classification. Teams without a pure sprinter or GC hopeful might opt to bring a squad of all-rounders – those who can search for opportunistic stage wins and have the freedom to go for the breakaway on days where they might have a chance at staying away for victory.
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With this being said, there’s a lot to consider when choosing an eight-rider line-up for the Tour de France and it serves as one of the most important jobs for team management in the entire season. A week out from the beginning of the race, some teams have fully announced their rosters whereas others continue to keep us guessing.

UAE Team Emirates
Tadej Pogačar
George Bennett
Mikkel Bjerg
Marc Hirschi
Vegard Stake Langen
Rafał Majka
Brandon McNulty
Marc Soler
Team Jumbo-Visma
Primož Roglič
Jonas Vingegaard
Christophe Laporte
Sepp Kuss
Wout van Aert
Steven Kruijswijk
Tiesj Benoot
Nathan Van Hooydonck
Ineos Grenadiers
Jonathan Castroviejo
Filippo Ganna
Daniel Martínez
Tom Pidcock
Luke Rowe
Geraint Thomas
Dylan van Baarle
Adam Yates
EF Education-EasyPost
Rigoberto Urán
Ruben Guerreiro
Alberto Bettiol
Stefan Bissegger
Owain Doull
Magnus Cort
Neilson Powless
Jonas Rutsch
Lotto-Soudal
Caleb Ewan
Philippe Gilbert
Andreas Kron
Tim Wellens
Florian Vermeersch
Brent Van Moer
Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
Frederik Frison
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
Yves Lampaert
Kasper Asgreen
Mattia Cattaneo
Florian Sénéchal
Andrea Bagioli
Mikkel Honoré
Fabio Jakobsen
Michael Mørkøv
Movistar Team
Enric Mas
Carlos Verona
Imanol Erviti
Iván García Cortina
Gorka Izagirre
Matteo Jorgenson
Gregor Mühlberger
Nelson Oliveira
Cofidis
Luc-Pierre Périchon
Simon Geschke
Ion Izagirre
Victor Lafay
Guillaume Martin
Anthony Perez
Benjamin Thomas
Max Walscheid
Groupama - FDJ
David Gaudu
Thibaut Pinot
Michael Storer
Stefan Küng
Valentin Madouas
Kevin Geniets
Olivier Le Gac
Antoine Duchesne
Israel - Premier Tech
Chris Froome
Michael Woods
Jakob Fuglsang
Simon Clarke
Guy Niv
Hugo Houle
Krists Neilands
Omer Goldstein
Team DSM
Romain Bardet
John Degenkolb
Alberto Dainese
Andreas Leknessund
Chris Hamilton
Kevin Vermaerke
Martijn Tusveld
Nils Eekhoff
AG2R Citroën Team
Ben O'Connor
Geoffrey Bouchard
Mikaël Cherel
Benoît Cosnefroy
Stan Dewulf
Bob Jungels
Oliver Naesen
Aurélien Paret-Peintre
Bora-Hansgrohe
Aleksandr Vlasov
Lennard Kämna
Patrick Konrad
Marco Haller
Felix Großschartner
Nils Politt
Maximilian Schachmann
Danny Van Poppel
Team BikeExchange - Jayco
Dylan Groenewegen
Luka Mezgec
Michael Matthews
Luke Durbidge
Chris Juul-Jensen
Jack Bauer
Nick Schultz
Amund Grøndahl Jansen
Bahrain - Victorious
Jack Haig
Damiano Caruso
Dylan Teuns
Matej Mohorič
Fred Wright
Luis León Sánchez
Jan Tratnik
Kamil Gradek
Alpecin-Deceuninck
Mathieu van der Poel
Silvan Dillier
Michael Gogl
Alexander Krieger
Jasper Philipsen
Edward Plankaert
Kristian Sbaragli
Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux
Alexander Kristoff
Kobe Goossens
Sven Erik Bystrøm
Louis Meintjes
Andrea Pasqualon
Adrien Petit
Taco van der Hoorn
Georg Zimmerman
Astana Qazaqstan Team
Fabio Felline
Andrey Zeits
Alexey Lutsenko
Aleksandr Riabushenko
Joe Dombrowski
Dmitriy Gruzdev
Gianni Moscon
Simone Velasco
Trek - Segafredo
Mads Pedersen
Giulio Ciccone
Quinn Simmons
Tony Gallopin
Alex Kirsch
Bauke Mollema
Toms Skujiņš
Jasper Stuyven
Team Arkéa Samsic
Nairo Quintana
Warren Barguil
Maxime Bouet
Amaury Capiot
Hugo Hofstetter
Matis Louvel
Connor Swift
Łukasz Owsian
B&B Hotels - KTM
Franck Bonnamour
Cyril Barthe
Alexis Gougeard
Jérémy Lecroq
Cyril Lemoine
Luca Mozzato
Pierre Rolland
Sebastian Schönberger
TotalEnergies
Peter Sagan
Pierre Latour
Anthony Turgis
Daniel Oss
Maciej Bodnar
Alexis Vuillermoz
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Mathieu Burgaudeau