As in previous editions, the Alpecin-Premier Tech will once again be entirely devoted to the ambitions of its two most charismatic and talented leaders, Jasper Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel at this year's Tour de France.

The two, both successful at the 2025 Grande Boucle and generally with raised arms respectively ten and two times on the roads of the most important GT in the world, will divide the responsibility of hunting for the full result depending on the finishes proposed from time to time by the 2026 edition's route where, in any case, the strong Belgian-Dutch pair will be able to count on the support of the granite-solid Silvan Diller, the debutants Ramses Debruyne and Tim Marsman, the solid Jonas Rickaert and Edward Planckaert and the fourth-place finisher at the last Liège-Bastogne-Liège Emiel Vestrynge.

No general classification ambitions, then, once again for the Roodhooft brothers' team that will go all-in again on partial victories to try to increase in this way the already rich haul of fourteen stage wins assembled from 2021 to today with the contribution of four different riders: the aforementioned MVDP and Philipsen, Kaden Groves (1st at Pontarlier in 2025) and a Tim Merlier who, from Barcelona to Paris, will be one of the main rivals precisely of the twenty-eight-year-old sprinter from Mol.