The Tour of Flanders 2025 will take place on Sunday, April 6 at 10:00 a.m. The broadcast on TV will be live on Eurosport.
Here you will find all the information about the Ronde 2024: broadcast, start time, favorites and the key sections of the “Vlaanderens mooiste”, as this classic is also known.
Tour of Flanders 2025: start, broadcast, kilometers
Date and start time: When is the 2025 Tour of Flanders?
Since its first edition in 1913, the “Ronde” has become a trademark for an entire region.
Nowadays, the Tour of Flanders, which is always held at the end of March or the beginning of April, is the most important cycling race in the Flemish part of Belgium and one of the most important one-day races in the world of cycling.
The Tour of Flanders 2025 will take place on Sunday, April 6. Traditionally, the “Ronde van Vlaanderen” is always held one week before Paris-Roubaix.
The start of the Ronde 2025 will be in Bruges at 10:00 a.m. The finish is expected in Oudenaarde at around 4:30 p.m. after 269 kilometers.
Who is showing the broadcast of the Tour of Flanders 2025?
All the big and important cycling races this season can be found in the Cycling TV program. Both on free TV and via paid livestreams.
The broadcast of the Tour of Flanders 2025 will be live on Eurosport in the main program on Sunday, April 6.
The live broadcast on Eurosport 1 starts at 9:45 a.m., a quarter of an hour before the start. After that, the entire race will be broadcast live. The commentator is Karsten Migels, with former pros Jens Voigt and Bernhard Eisel as experts at his side.
Since Eurosport is also included in DAZN, the 2025 Flanders broadcast is also available as a livestream on the sports streaming service.
Another option for the 2025 Tour of Flanders broadcast is the paid cycling portal Global Cycling Network (GCN), which is fully specialized in cycling broadcasts. Here you can also find the “Ronde” completely live from start to finish.
These are the Tour of Flanders favorites in 2025
Who will win the Tour of Flanders in 2025? That is the question on everyone’s lips ahead of the start of the classic on Sunday morning.
Mathieu van der Poel won the season opener of the big races at Milan – San Remo. His biggest rival, Tadej Pogacar, “only” finished third.
If the betting providers in Germany are to be believed, van der Poel and Pogacar are once again the favorites to win the race in Belgium.
Mathieu van der Poel has already won the Ronde three times – in 2020, 2022 and 2024. As already mentioned, his form before the start fits perfectly with this.
Pogacar, in turn, won the race in 2023, between two victories by the Dutchman. Now, after his “defeat” in San Remo, he is considered the favorite for Flanders at bet365.
Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen follow with much worse betting odds for the Flanders betting odds, before Matteo Jorgensen is the last reasonably realistic candidate for victory.
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The teams of Flanders 2025 Startlist
A total of 25 teams are on the starting list for the 2025 Tour of Flanders.
In addition to the 18 “World Tour” teams, seven UFC Pro Teams are still competing in this year’s edition. Each of the 25 teams consists of seven riders.
The 18 UCI World Teams:
- Alpecin-Deceuninck
- Arkea-B&B Hotels
- Bahrain Victorious
- Cofidis
- Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
- EF Education-EasyPost
- Groupama-FDJ
- Ineos Grenadiers
- Intermarché-Wanty
- Lidl-Trek
- Movistar Team
- Red Bull-Bora
- Soudal Quick-Step
- Team Jayco AlUla
- Team Picnic PostNL
- Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
- UAE Team Emirates
- Visma-Lease a Bike
- XDS Astana Team
The 7 UCI Pro Teams:
- Israel-Premier Tech
- Lotto
- Q36.5,
- Solution Tech-Vini Fantini
- Tudor Procycling
- Uno-X Mobility
- VG Group Bardiani
Route: kilometers & key sections
In 2025, the start of the Tour of Flanders will once again be in Bruges, after last year’s start in Antwerp. Since 2012, the race has ended in Oudenaarde. The finish remains unchanged.
The total distance of the Tour of Flanders route in 2025 is 268.9 kilometers – which is slightly less than last year.
The 2025 Tour of Flanders will feature 16 hills and several cobblestone sections. The Oude Kwaremont (to be climbed twice in total) and the Paterberg (also to be climbed twice) remain the centerpieces of the route.
The first 100 kilometers or so are not particularly demanding in terms of topography. Only then do the first cobblestone sections await: Lippenhovestraat and Paddestraat.
The infamous Koppenberg awaits on the Tour of Flanders 2025 route from kilometer 226.2. The favorites will have to show themselves at the front in the narrow, hollow lane (600 meters with an average gradient of 11.6 percent), otherwise they will no longer have a chance of winning.
After that, there are the Kwaremont and Paterberg climbs, where a preliminary decision could be made. After that, there are still around 13 kilometers of flat road to the finish.
