As with all WorldTour races, each of the 18 teams that make up the top-flight of professional cycling receive an invite and in the case of the Tour de France, all teams are contracted to race.

In addition to the WorldTour teams, race organisers ASO handed wildcard spots to Arkéa-Samsic, Cofidis Solutions Crédits, Total-Direct Énergie and Wanty-Groupe Gobert​.

Of the 22 teams who started the 106th edition of the Tour, five – Ag2r-La Mondiale, Arkéa-Samsic, Cofidis, Groupama-FDJ and Total-Direct Énergie – are French.

Meet the eight-man teams and the remaining riders in the last stages.

UCI WorldTour teams

Ag2r-La Mondiale: Romain Bardet (Fra), Mikaël Cherel (Fra), Benoît Cosnefroy (Fra), Nico Denz (Ger), Mathias Frank (Swi), Tony Gallopin (Fra), Alexis Gougeard (Fra), Oliver Naesen (Bel), Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra).

Astana: Pello Bilbao (Spa), Magnus Cort (Den), Omar Fraile (Spa), Hugo Houle (Can), Gorka Izagirre (Spa), Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz).

Abandoned: Jakob Fuglsang (Den, stage 16 DNF), Luis León Sánchez (Spa, stage 17 DNS).

Bahrain-Merida: Damiano Caruso (Ita), Sonny Colbrelli (Ita), Iván García (Spa), Matej Mohoric (Slo), Vincenzo Nibali (Ita), Dylan Teuns (Bel), Jan Tratnik (Slo).

Abandoned: Rohan Dennis (Aus, stage 12 DNF).

Bora-Hansgrohe: Emanuel Buchmann (Ger), Marcus Burghardt (Ger), Patrick Konrad (Aut), Gregor Mühlberger (Aut), Daniel Oss (Ita), Peter Sagan (Svk).

Abandoned: Maximilian Schachmann (Ger, stage 14 DNS), Jakob Fuglsang (Den, stage 16 DNF), Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut, stage 18 DNS).