page_title: 2019 Tour de France
section_title: Teams
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 Tour de France / Teams
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of the Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium taken in June 2018
context_page_description: The 2019 Tour de France was the 106th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. The 3,365.8 km-long race consisted of 21 stages, starting in the Belgian capital of Brussels on 6 July, before moving throughout France and concluding on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 28 July. A total of 176 riders from 22 teams participated in the race. The overall general classification was won for the first time by a Latin American rider, Egan Bernal of Team Ineos. His teammate and 2018 Tour winner Geraint Thomas finished second while Steven Kruijswijk came in third.
  Kruijswijk's teammate Mike Teunissen won stage 1's bunch sprint to take the first yellow jersey of the Tour. Julian Alaphilippe of Deceuninck–Quick-Step took the lead of the race following his victory of stage 3. He lost the yellow jersey after the sixth stage to Giulio Ciccone who was the highest placed rider of a breakaway group that finished ahead of the peloton. Ciccone's lead of the Tour lasted two stages, before Alaphilippe retook it after stage 8.
context_section_description: The 2019 edition of the Tour de France consisted of 22 teams. The race was the 27th of the 38 events in the UCI World Tour, and all of its 18 UCI WorldTeams were entitled, and obliged, to enter the race. Additionally, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the organisers of the Tour, invited four second-tier UCI Professional Continental teams to participate in the event. The three French and one Belgian teams had each participated in the race before. The presentation of the teams – where the members of each team's roster are introduced in front of the media and local dignitaries – took place in front of a crowd of 75,000 on the Grand Place square in Brussels, Belgium, on 4 July, two days before the opening stage.
  Each squad was allowed a maximum of eight riders, resulting in a start list total of 176. Of these, 33 competed in their first Tour de France. The riders came from 30 countries. Six countries had more than ten riders in the race: France (43), Belgium (21), Italy (15), Spain (13), Germany (11) and the Netherlands (11). The average age of riders in the race was 29.71 years, ranging from the 21-year-old Jasper Philipsen (UAE Team Emirates) to the 39-year-old Lars Bak (Team Dimension Data). Team Sunweb had the youngest average age while Team Dimension Data had the oldest.
  The teams participating in the race were:
  UCI WorldTeams
  AG2R La Mondiale
  Astana
  Bahrain–Merida
  Bora–Hansgrohe
  CCC Team
  EF Education First
  Team Dimension Data
  Groupama–FDJ
  Team Ineos
  Team Katusha–Alpecin
  Team Jumbo–Visma
  Lotto–Soudal
  Movistar Team
  Mitchelton–Scott
  Deceuninck–Quick-Step
  Team Sunweb
  Trek–Segafredo
  UAE Team Emirates
  UCI Professional Continental teams
  Cofidis
  Wanty–Gobert
  Total Direct Énergie
  Arkéa–Samsic
caption: The Grand Place square in Brussels, Belgium, hosted the team presentation ceremony on 4 July.
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