The Giro d’Italia Women has confirmed its team list for 2026, with the race set to begin on 30th May and a full mix of Women’s WorldTour teams, invited ProTeams and Continental wildcard squads now named.
The announcement gives the race its formal starting grid, with all 14 UCI Women’s WorldTeams included alongside Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi as a mandatory ProTeam invitation. St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 has also been handed a ProTeam wildcard, while five Italian Continental teams complete the line-up.
All Women’s WorldTour teams included
The 2026 edition will feature the full Women’s WorldTour field, ensuring the race keeps its status as one of the most important stage races of the women’s season. That means the Giro d’Italia Women will again bring together the sport’s strongest squads, with GC leaders, climbing specialists, sprint groups and stage-hunting teams all expected to shape the race.
Their inclusion gives the race the expected top-tier backbone. The Giro d’Italia Women has traditionally rewarded depth as much as individual strength, with the repeated climbing, long transfers and changing stage demands requiring more than a single leader. The full WorldTour presence should again create a race where the main contenders are supported by strong teams, rather than isolated early in the week.
ProTeam invitations add extra depth
Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi receives a mandatory invitation as a UCI Women’s ProTeam, giving the Spanish squad a place in one of the biggest races of the calendar. The team has continued to grow in relevance in recent seasons, and its inclusion adds another climbing-focused presence to the race.
St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 has also been confirmed through a wildcard invitation. The French team’s place adds another ProTeam element to the field, widening the race beyond the automatic WorldTour structure and giving the squad access to a major stage race platform.
Those invitations are important because the Giro d’Italia Women is not only a race for the biggest-budget teams. It also acts as one of the few moments in the season where ambitious teams below WorldTour level can test themselves against the strongest squads across several stages, rather than in a one-day setting where the race can sometimes be shaped by early survival rather than long-term strategy.
Italian Continental teams complete the start list
The Continental wildcard selection has a strong Italian identity, with five teams confirmed for the race. Aromitalia Vaiano, Isolmant-Premac-Vittoria, Team Mendelspeck E-Work, Top Girls Fassa Bortolo and Vini Fantini-BePink will all line up on home roads.
For those teams, the Giro d’Italia Women is often the defining opportunity of the year. A place on the start line gives riders the chance to race in front of home support, chase breakaway exposure and measure themselves against the WorldTour across a demanding stage race environment.
Italian Continental teams have long played an important role in the texture of the Giro. They often animate transitional stages, place riders in early moves and bring a different kind of urgency to the race. For many of their riders, simply reaching the start line is significant. Making the race visible from the breakaway, or surviving deep into a selective stage, can become a meaningful result in itself.
A complete field before the route takes focus
The team announcement shifts the build-up towards the sporting detail of the race itself. With the start date now set for 30th May, attention will turn to route design, stage profiles and which riders each squad chooses to bring.
The Giro d’Italia Women has often been one of the clearest tests of climbing strength in the women’s calendar, but the final balance of the race will depend on how the organisers distribute the decisive stages. A route heavy on summit finishes would naturally tilt the race towards pure climbers, while a more varied parcours could open the door for puncheurs, resilient all-rounders and teams willing to race aggressively before the final climbs.
For now, the framework is in place. The WorldTour teams are confirmed, the ProTeam invitations are settled and the Italian wildcard squads have their opportunity. From 30th May, the Giro d’Italia Women will again bring the peloton onto Italian roads with one of the strongest start lists of the season.
Giro d’Italia Women 2026 teams list
UCI Women’s WorldTeams
- AG Insurance-Soudal Team
- Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto
- EF Education-Oatly
- FDJ United-Suez
- Fenix-Premier Tech
- Human Powered Health
- Lidl-Trek
- Liv-AlUla-Jayco
- Movistar Team
- Team Picnic PostNL
- Team SD Worx-Protime
- Team Visma | Lease a Bike
- UAE Team ADQ
- Uno-X Mobility
UCI Women’s ProTeams
- Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi
- St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93
UCI Women’s Continental Teams
- Aromitalia Vaiano
- Isolmant-Premac-Vittoria
- Team Mendelspeck E-Work
- Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
- Vini Fantini-BePink
