Organizers of the Tour de France Femme Avec Zwift have selected 24 teams to participate in the inaugural event, which will be held in July.

Fourteen WorldTour teams and three Continental teams will automatically qualify for 2021, according to UCI regulations, and organizer ASO has given seven wild cards.

These seven teams include the British Le Col Wahoo team and the AG Insurance-NXTG team, which recently secured additional sponsorship with the support of QuickStep-AlphaVinyl team manager Patrick Lefebvre.

France's Arcare Pro Cycling Team, Cofidis Women's Team, Stade Rochelle-Charentes-Maritimes, and Saint-Michel-Over93 were also invited, as was Belgium's Planteur Pla.

WorldTour teams receiving automatic invitations include: Canyon-SRAM Racing, EF Education-TIBCO-SVB, FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope, Human Powered Health, Liv Racing Xstra, Movistar Team Women, Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad, BikeExchange-Jayco, Team DSM, Jumbo-Visma, SD Worx, Trek-Segafredo, UAE Team ADQ, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team.

The Tour de France Femme will be held July 24-31, starting under the Eiffel Tower in central Paris and finishing on the same Avenue des Champs-Elysées on the same day that the men's Tour France finishes in the French capital.

The Tour de France Femme consists of eight stages covering 1,029 km, with two stages being puncheurs, one stage on gravel roads, four flat stages ending in a group sprint or breakaway victory, and a series of final mountain stages.

The final stage is the Queen stage, which finishes at the top of La Super Planche des Belle Filles, a 123 km stage with two major climbs and an important finale.

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