Participants Tour of Flanders 2025 | Picnic PostNL and UAE Emirates-XRG first to announce their teams

Undoubtedly, the Tour of Flanders is the main goal for many teams and riders. For example, Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel will face each other for the first time in Flanders. Their duel in Milan-Sanremo already resulted in a wonderful result. Can they continue the story in Flanders? Pogacar was already there early with his strong UAE-Emirates XRG team, including Tim Wellens and Jhonatan Narváez.

Visma | Lease a Bike (with Wout van Aert, Tiesj Benoot, and Matteo Jorgenson) and Lidl-Trek (Mads Pedersen, Toms Skujins, and Jasper Stuyven) are considered the other big groups of contenders. At the same time, it would be quite an achievement just to make it to the podium for the rest of the starting field like Luca Mozzato did last year on behalf of Arkéa - B&B Hotels, for example. Although we don't expect many surprises on this extremely tough course.

We can also expect a top-class women's peloton. Except for Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), pretty much all the big names will be present, including Marianne Vos, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma | Lease a Bike), Lotte Kopecky, Anna van der Breggen, Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) and so on. On Sunday, we will find out which of these women will win this edition of the Tour of Flanders.