Participants Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025 | Familiar faces and rising stars line up for La Doyenne

Liège-Bastogne-Liège is known as one of the toughest classics on the calendar, and this is reflected in the field of participants. The top favorites are Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates-XRG) and Remco Evenepoel of Soudal Quick-Step, who have shared the last four editions.

Amstel Gold Race winner Mattias Skjelmose of Lidl-Trek and his teammate Thibau Nys will also be at the start, as will Tom Pidcock (Q36.5), Tiesj Benoot (Visma | Lease a Bike), and Ben Healy of EF Education-EasyPost. In addition, there will be some fresh faces from the Tour of the Alps, such as Romain Bardet (Picnic PostNL) and Giulio Ciccone from Lidl-Trek.

Mathieu van der Poel, who finished third in Liège-Bastogne-Liège last year, will not participate. The Dutch rider is taking some well-deserved rest after his victory in Paris-Roubaix and will return to competition on his mountain bike in May.

We can also look forward to a superb field of participants in the women's race. Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) and Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) have not yet won in the Ardennes this season, nor have Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team-ADQ) and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM), among others. Puck Pieterse, winner of the Flèche Wallonne, will also be back on behalf of Fenix-Deceuninck.