Vuelta a Espana

The Vuelta a España 2025, the 80th edition of the race, will be the final Grand Tour of the season, with the race following the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in the WorldTour calendar.

The route for the 2025 edition looks tailor-made for Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who hasn't ridden the race since making his Grand Tour debut there in 2019. Meanwhile, four-time Vuelta winner Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) has ruled out a tilt at a record-breaking fifth title, instead targeting the Giro d'Italia.

With just one fully flat stage, 10 summit finishes (including eight category 1s), another ascent of the fearsome Angliru and a mountainous time trial, this is another one for the hardiest of climbers. 

A far cry from 2025's Tour de France route, which takes place entirely within French borders, the Vuelta takes a jaunt around Europe before settling down in Spain. Beginning in Turin, Italy, the race pays a visit to France and Andorra for its most international edition (by number of countries visited) since 2009. 

It's also an extremely northern edition of the race, with the traditional closing stage in Madrid marking its furthest venture south.

Andorra plays host to the first major GC battle, a summit finish in Pal, kicking off a tough weekend in the Pyrenees and a densely-packed mountainous second week. After a couple of stages for the puncheurs the highest mountains return, including the Alto de l'Angliru on - to add insult to injury - the longest stage of the race, a 202km slog up to the legendary peak. 

The climbing is broken up by a flat ITT for the specialists in Vallodolid on stage 18, but then it's back to the high mountains once more on the penultimate stage, with a summit finish on the 2,200m-tall Puerto de Navacerrada. 

Here's all you need to know ahead of the last Grand Tour of the season.  

• 2025 Vuelta a España route
• 2025 Vuelta a España start list - TBC
• 2025 Vuelta a España contenders - TBC

Vuelta a España 2025: Key details

Vuelta a España 2025: Stage-by-stage

Vuelta a España: The jerseys

The red jersey of the Vuelta's general classification leader is now well established (it was previously gold, but changed in 2010). The leader of the mountains classification wears a polka-dot jersey, but its large blue spots mean it's very different to the one that riders in the Tour de France wear. The points leader's green jersey is lime green, while the jersey for best young rider (born after 1 January 1998), is white – familiar from the Tour de France.

There are other awards on offer as well, including the teams classification and a daily combativity award. Embellished jersey numbers, rather than jerseys, are on offer for this.

Riders in the general classification in particular will be interested in the bonus seconds that are available throughout the race. There are 10, 6 and 4 seconds for finishing first, second and third on a stage, plus 3, 2 and 1 seconds at nine different intermediate sprints throughout the race and 10 separate bonus uphill sprints.

Vuelta a España 2025: The teams

There will be 22 teams riding the 2024 Vuelta a España, including all 18 WorldTour teams and four second-tier ProTeams. Full details are yet to be confirmed.

Vuelta a España: Past winners

2024: Primož Roglič (Slo) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
2023: Sepp Kuss (USA) Jumbo-Visma
2022: Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl
2021: Primož Roglič (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
2020: Primož Roglič (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
2019: Primož Roglič (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
2018: Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton–Scott
2017: Chris Froome (GBr) Team Sky
2016: Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
2015: Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana
2014: Alberto Contador (Esp) Tinkoff–Saxo
2013: Chris Horner (USA) RadioShack–Leopard