With the Tour de France still recent enough that it can still be glimpsed in the rear-view mirror, it's time for the third and final men's Grand Tour of the season the Vuelta a Espaa.While it so often plays a subordinate role to its French and Italian counterparts, this year it finds itself in the limelight thanks to the participation of recent Tour winner Tadej Pogaar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG). It's only his second participation, and the first since 2019, when he was still a mere mortal, albeit one for whom the future looked starry.Victory here would mean he has won every Grand Tour a feat achieved by his closest rival Jonas Vingegaard earlier this season. Visma-Lease a Bike's Vingegaard will not be challenging the Slovenian at the Vuelta, but he will face opposition from other quarters.Four-time Vuelta winner Primo Rogli (Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe) leads the challengers, who also boast Oscar Onley (Netcompany-Ineos), Felix Gall (Decathlon CMA CGM) and Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) in their ranks. Against Pogaar they know they have a dizzying task, but he is human like the everyone else on the start list, and carrying the mental and physical fatigue of a recent Tour de France victory. Anything could happen.Read on for the full startlist, with only Netcompany-Ineos and Pinarello Q36.5 still to be confirmed. There are 23 teams with 184 riders at the race, so eight per squad.Tour de France 2026 start listAlpecin-Premier TechRamses Debruyne (Bel, 23)Kaden Groves (Aus, 27)Michael Gogl (Aut, 31)Francesco Busatto (Ita, 23)Sente Sentjens (Bel, 20)Lindsay De Vylder (Bel, 31)Gal Glivar (Svn, 24)Hugo Houle (Can, 35)Bahrain VictoriousPello Bilbao (Esp, 36)Santiago Buitrago (Col, 26)Roman Ermakov (Svn, 21)Pau Miquel (Esp, 25)Matev Govekar (Svn, 26)Jakob Omrzel (Svn, 20)Mathijs Paasschens (Ned, 30)Attila Valter (Hun, 28)Decathlon CMA CGMLo Bisiaux (Fra, 21)Oscar Chamberlain (Aus, 21)Sander De Pestel (Bel, 27)Felix Gall (Aut, 28)Jordan Labrosse (Fra, 23)Gregor Mhlberger (Aut, 32)Matthew Riccitello (USA, 24)Callum Scotson (Aus, 30)EF Education-EasyPostRichard Carapaz (Ecu, 33)James Shaw (Gbr, 30)Vincenzo Albanese (Ita, 29)Markel Beloki (Esp, 21)Alastair Mackellar (Aus, 25)Darren Rafferty (Irl, 23)Georg Steinhauser (Ger, 25)Juan Felipe Rodriguez (Col, 25)Groupama-FDJ UnitedGuillaume Martin (Fra, 33)Olivier Le Gac (Fra, 33)Rudy Molard (Fra, 36)Clment Berthet (Fra, 29)Bastien Tronchon (Fra, 24)Enzo Paleni (Fra, 23)Valentin Madouas (Fra, 29)Rmy Rochas (Fra, 30)Jayco-AlUlaPaul Double (Gbr, 30)Finlay Pickering (Gbr, 22)Alessandro Covi (Ita, 27)Asbjrn Hellemose (Den, 27)Jasha Stterlin (Ger, 33)Hamish McKenzie (Nzl, 21)Koen Bouwman (Ned, 32)Rudy Porter (Aus, 25)Lidl-TrekMattias Skjelmose (Den, 25)Mads Pedersen (Den, 30)Thibau Nys (Bel, 23)Julien Bernard (Fra, 34)Lennard Kmna (Ger, 29)Patrick Konrad (Aut, 34)Jacopo Mosca (Ita, 33)Mathias Norsgaard (Den, 29)Lotto-IntermarchJarno Widar (Bel, 20)Lars Craps (Bel, 23)Luca Van Boven (Bel, 26)Vito Braet (Bel, 25)Steffen De Schuyteneer (Bel, 21)Lorenzo Rota (Ita, 31)Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk (Ned, 25)Reuben Thompson (Nzl, 25)MovistarOrluis Aular (Ven, 29)Enric Mas (Esp, 31)Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bel, 23)Ivn Romeo (Esp, 23)Carlos Canal (Esp, 25)Jorge Arcas (Esp, 34)Ral Garca Pierna (Esp, 25)Pablo Castrillo (Esp, 25)Netcompany-Ineos (prov.)Carlos Rodrguez (Esp, 25)Laurens De Plus (Bel, 30)Oscar Onley (Gbr, 23)NSN CyclingGeorge Bennett (Nzl, 36)Jan Hirt (Cze, 35)Hugo Hofstetter (Fra, 32)Moritz Kretschy (Ger, 23)Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz, 33)Pau Mart (Esp, 21)Nick Schultz (Aus, 32)Floris Van Tricht (Bel, 25)Picnic PostNLGuillermo Juan Martinez (Col, 21)Mattia Gaffuri (Ita, 27)Chris Hamilton (Aus, 31)Henri-Franois Renard-Haquin (Fra, 23)Timo De Jong (Ned, 27)Gijs Leemreize (Ned, 26)Oliver Peace (Gbr, 21)Timo Roosen (Ned, 33)Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohePrimo Rogli (Slo, 36)Gianni Vermeersch (Bel, 33)Luke Tuckwell (Aus, 21)Finn Fisher-Black (Nzl, 24)Jordi Meeus (Bel, 27)Gianni Moscon (Ita, 32)Callum Thornley (Gbr, 24)Frederik Wandahl (Den, 24)Soudal Quick-StepFabio Van Den Bossche (Bel, 25)Steff Cras (Bel, 30)Alberto Dainese (Ita, 28)Gianmarco Garofoli (Ita, 23)Ethan Hayter (Gbr, 27)Filippo Zana (Ita, 27)Mikel Landa (Esp, 36)Valentin Paret-Peintre (Fra, 25)UAE Team Emirates-XRGTadej Pogaar (Slo, 27)Joo Almeida (Por, 28)Jay Vine (Aus, 30)Pavel Sivakov (Fra, 29)Pablo Torres (Esp, 20)Kevin Vermaerke (USA, 25)Ivo Oliveira (Por, 29)Domen Novak (Slo, 31)Uno-X MobilityTobias Halland Johannessen (Nor, 26)Andreas Kron (Den, 28)Fredrik Dversnes (Nor, 29)Rasmus Tiller (Nor, 30)Magnus Cort (Den, 33)Simon Dalby (Den, 25)Martin Tjtta (Nor, 25)Andreas Leknessund (Nor, 27)Visma-Lease a BikeWout Van Aert (Bel, 31)Matthew Brennan (Gbr, 21)Jrgen Nordhagen (Nor, 21)Ben Tulett (Gbr, 24)Steven Kruijswijk (Ned, 39)Christophe Laporte (Fra, 33)Bruno Armirail (Fra, 32)Sepp Kuss (USA, 31)XDS-AstanaHenok Mulubrhan (Eri, 26)Harold Tejada (Col, 29)Cristin Rodrguez (Esp, 31)Lorenzo Fortunato (Ita, 30)Victor Langellotti (Mco, 31)Darren Van Bekkum (Ned, 24)Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kaz, 26)Alessandro Romele (Ita, 22)Tudor Pro CyclingMarco Brenner (Deu, 23)Stefan Kng (Che, 32)Will Barta (USA, 30)Arthur Kluckers (Lux, 26)Roland Thalmann (Che, 33)Larry Warbasse (USA, 36)Fabian Weiss (Che, 24)Hannes Wilksch (Deu, 24)CofidisBryan Coquard (Fra, 34)Emanuel Buchmann (Ger, 33)Alexis Renard (Fra, 27)Alex Kirsch (Lux, 34)Sylvain Moniquet (Bel, 28)Paul Ourselin (Fra, 32)Louis Rouland (Fra, 23)Sergio Samitier (Esp, 30)Pinarello Q36.5 (prov.)Milan Vader (Ned, 30)David De La Cruz (Esp, 37)Walter Calzoni (Ita, 25)Marcel Camprub (Esp, 24)Burgos BurpelletJess Herrada (Esp, 36)Jos Manuel Daz (Esp, 31)Sergio Geovani Chumil (Gua, 25)Jos Luis Faura (Esp, 25)Mario Aparicio (Esp, 26)Sinuh Fernndez (Esp, 26)Clment Alleno (Fra, 25)Csar Macas (Mex, 27)Kern PharmaIvn Cobo (Esp, 25)Urko Berrade (Esp, 31)Marc Brustenga (Esp, 27)Iigo Elosegui (Esp, 27)Ibon Ruiz (Esp, 30)Ivn Ramiro Sosa (Col, 28)Diego Uriarte (Esp, 23)Mats Wenzel (Lux, 23)