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Vuelta a España 2024 complete start list: All the teams announced for the three-week race

Primož Roglič at the 2024 Tour de France.

The 79th edition of the Vuelta a España begins this Saturday, and all the teams have announced their lineups for the Grand Tour ahead of the big day.

Three-time champion Primož Roglič has successfully recovered from injury in order to race his second three-week race for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, and will surely go in as the favourite. He will be joined by Aleksandr Vlasov, who also crashed out of the Tour de France, along with Dani Martínez, in a strong team.

Roglič is the favourite, but the race is also wide open. Defending champion Sepp Kuss will race for Visma-Lease a Bike, alongside Wout van Aert, making his debut in Spain, and Cian Uijtdebroeks.

A strong UAE Team Emirates squad is due to be led by João Almeida and Adam Yates, but they are joined by a team full of GC contenders, with Marc Soler, Isaac Del Toro, Pavel Sivakov and Brandon McNulty all there too.

Ineos Grenadiers will be spearheaded by Carlos Rodríguez and Thymen Arensman, who will both be aiming for the podium at least, with Josh Tarling riding a Grand Tour for the first time. 

Tao Geoghegan Hart will ride his first Grand Tour for Lidl-Trek, after he was ruled out of the Tour de France with Covid. He will be joined by Giulio Ciccone and Mattias Skjelmose in a strong lineup from the American team.

EF Education-EasyPost are to be led by Richard Carapaz, winner of the mountains classification and an Alpine stage at the Tour, supported ably by Rigoberto Urán.

Mikel Landa, recently third at the Tour, will lead Soudal Quick-Step, while Kaden Groves, the winner of the points competition at last year's Vuelta, returns for Alpecin-Deceuninck.

Meanwhile, Nairo Quintana will return to the Vuelta, a race he won in 2016, for the first time since 2019. The Movistar squad also includes perennial podium hopeful Enric Mas. 

The 2024 race begins on Saturday 17 August in Lisbon, Portugal and finishes in Madrid, Spain, just over three weeks later on 8 September.

Eight men are allowed in each squad, with a mix of climbers, sprinters, general classification hopefuls and domestiques. All 18 WorldTour teams will be present, alongside ProTeams Israel-Premier Tech, Lotto Dstny, Euskaltel-Euskadi and Equipo Kern Pharma.

Below are the confirmed squads for the race. We will update this page with more riders as teams are announced.

Vuelta a España 2024 start list

Alpecin-Deceuninck
PLANCKAERT Edward
VERGALLITO Luca
BALLERSTEDT Maurice
GROVES Kaden
HERMANS Quinten
HOLLMANN Juri
MEURISSE Xandro
RIESEBEEK Oscar

Arkéa-B&B Hotels
GESBERT Élie
GUERNALEC Thibault
GUGLIELMI Simon
HUYS Laurens
LE BERRE Mathis
OWSIAN Łukasz
RODRÍGUEZ Cristián
RIES Michel

Astana Qazaqstan
FORTUNATO Lorenzo
BRUSSENSKIY Gleb
GAROFOLI Gianmarco
SCHELLING Ide
TEJADA Harold
UMBA Santiago
VINOKUROV Nicolas
LÓPEZ Harold Martín

Bahrain Victorious
TIBERI Antonio
CARUSO Damiano
GRADEK Kamil
HAIG Jack
KEPPLINGER Rainer
MIHOLJEVIĆ Fran
SÜTTERLIN Jasha
TRÆEN Torstein

Cofidis
MARTIN Guillaume
HERRADA Jesús
LASTRA Jonathan
FERNÁNDEZ Rubén
COQUARD Bryan
ELISSONDE Kenny
IZAGIRRE Ion
CHAMPION Thomas

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
PARET-PEINTRE Valentin
ARMIRAIL Bruno
BOUCHARD Geoffrey
GALL Felix
LAFAY Victor
BERTHET Clément
DE PESTEL Sander
O'CONNOR Ben

dsm-firmenich PostNL
POOLE Max
BITTNER Pavel
HAMILTON Chris
LEEMREIZE Gijs
LEIJNSE Enzo
NABERMAN Tim
TUSVELD Martijn
VAN DEN BERG Julius

EF Education-EasyPost
CARAPAZ Richard
URÁN Rigoberto
CEPEDA Jefferson Alexander
COSTA Rui
DOULL Owain
RAFFERTY Darren
SHAW James
SWEENY Harry

Equipo Kern Pharma
CASTRILLO Pablo
MIQUEL Pau
BERRADE Urko
GUTIÉRREZ Jorge
IRIBAR Unai
PARRA José Félix
RUIZ Ibon
SOTO Antonio Jesús

Euskaltel-Euskadi
ABERASTURI Jon
BERASATEGI Xabier
BIZKARRA Mikel
BOU Joan
JUARISTI Txomin
MARTÍN Gotzon
MATÉ Luis Ángel
ISASA Xabier*

Groupama-FDJ
GAUDU David
BYSTRØM Sven Erik
GENIETS Kevin
GERMANI Lorenzo
KÜNG Stefan
PACHER Quentin
ROCHAS Rémy
THOMPSON Reuben

Ineos Grenadiers
ARENSMAN Thymen
HEIDUK Kim
NARVÁEZ Jhonatan
RIVERA Brandon Smith
RODRÍGUEZ Óscar
DE PLUS Laurens
TARLING Joshua
RODRÍGUEZ Carlos

Intermarché-Wanty
MARIT Arne
GOOSSENS Kobe
MEINTJES Louis
PAQUOT Tom
PETILLI Simone
ROTA Lorenzo
TAARAMÄE Rein
BRAET Vito

Israel-Premier Tech
RICCITELLO Matthew
TEUNS Dylan
BENNETT George
FRIGO Marco
WOODS Michael
RAISBERG Nadav
SHEEHAN Riley
STRONG Corbin

Jayco AlUla
SCHMID Mauro
DE MARCHI Alessandro
ENGELHARDT Felix
ZANA Filippo
BERHE Welay Hagos
DUNBAR Eddie
SCOTSON Callum
HARPER Chris

Lidl-Trek
CICCONE Giulio
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao
KONRAD Patrick
OOMEN Sam
SKJELMOSE Mattias
VACEK Mathias
VERGAERDE Otto
VERONA Carlos

Lotto Dstny
DE GENDT Thomas
VAN EETVELT Lennert
KRON Andreas
LIVYNS Arjen
SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo
GREGAARD Jonas
CAMPENAERTS Victor
MONIQUET Sylvain

Movistar
MAS Enric
QUINTANA Nairo
SÁNCHEZ Pelayo
RUBIO Einer
LAZKANO Oier
CANAL Carlos
ARCAS Jorge
OLIVEIRA Nelson

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
ADRIÀ Roger
ALEOTTI Giovanni
DENZ Nico
GAMPER Patrick
LIPOWITZ Florian
MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe
ROGLIČ Primož
VLASOV Aleksandr

Soudal Quick-Step
LANDA Mikel
LECERF William Junior
PEDERSEN Casper
ASGREEN Kasper
CATTANEO Mattia
VANSEVENANT Mauri
VERVAEKE Louis
KNOX James

UAE Team Emirates
SOLER Marc
ALMEIDA João
YATES Adam
DEL TORO Isaac
SIVAKOV Pavel
BARONCINI Filippo
VINE Jay
MCNULTY Brandon

Visma-Lease a Bike
KUSS Sepp
VAN AERT Wout
GESINK Robert
KRUIJSWIJK Steven
AFFINI Edoardo
VALTER Attila
VAN BAARLE Dylan
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian

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