Tour de France prize money: How much did Tadej Pogačar win?

Tour de France prize money: See how much Tadej Pogačar, UAE Emirates XRG and each team earned during the 2026 Tour.

Tadej Pogačar, Isaac Del Toro and the UAE cleaned up the Tour de France prize money. (Photo: Loic VENANCE / AFP)

Updated July 27, 2026 at 4:32 a.m

Tadej Pogačar and his record-breaking fifth Tour de France title led to one of the most lopsided prize money payouts in recent Tour history.

According to the final prize money list published on Sunday, UAE Emirates-XRG collected 832,750 euros, more than 36 percent of the tour’s total prize pot of 2.3 million euros.

That number dwarfed every other team in the race.

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe came a distant second with €288,160, while Lidl-Trek completed the ‘Prize Money Podium’ with €204,870 after Mads Pedersen won the stage and the Green Jersey campaign, as well as the hotly contested team prize.

No other team even reached 200,000 euros.

The Tour’s prize money is paid out collectively to the teams, although each rider receives different amounts of “primes” and payouts after each stage. (Click here to see how it is paid out).

Pogačar earned 611,980 euros when adding up his individual Tour tally, including 500,000 euros for first place and other payouts for stage wins and daily placings.

That was almost two and a half times what second-place finisher Remco Evenepoel earned at €247,800, including €200,000 for second place, and almost four times the payout to his third-placed UAE teammate Isaac del Toro of €155,450.

The gap shows how thoroughly Pogačar and the United Arab Emirates destroyed the three-week race.

The UAE super team won six stages, two jerseys and placed two riders on the final podium. Not to mention the daily payouts for stage wins, classification prizes and daily payments for the leader’s jersey from start to finish.

With the Tour’s high totals and jersey payouts, the top four teams received nearly 65 percent of all prize money available on this year’s Tour.

Big drop for Visma-Lease a Bike

The numbers also helped tell the story of Visma-Lease a Bike’s difficult tour.

After Jonas Vingegaard dropped out in second place overall, Visma ended up in eighth place in the final prize money ranking in Paris with €71,210. The Killer Bees finished with less money than EF Education-EasyPost, Bahrain Victorious and Alpecin-Premier Tech.

Further down the rankings, the disparity in payouts becomes even more apparent.

In fact, the UAE won more prize money than the last 19 teams combined.

Traditionally, the teams divide the tour prize money among the drivers, with employees also receiving a share. For some teams, there wasn’t much to celebrate in Paris other than reaching the finish line.

Picnic PostNL brought up the rear, earning the smallest paycheck for three weeks of cycling at €12,770. Next up were the wildcard invitations Caja Rural-Seguros RGA (€13,570) and Groupama-FDJ United (€14,700).

Ineos Grenadiers – once the Tour’s dominant force – leaves France with just €23,760, a paltry return that is reminiscent of another frustrating July for the British team.

Prize money has never been the biggest financial reward in professional cycling – it comes from the seven-figure salaries the top pros now earn – but the final payout in Paris is a final confirmation of how one-sided the 2026 Tour has been.

This Tour de France wasn’t close, and neither was the prize money.

As the saying goes: To the winner go the spoils.

Prize money for the Tour de France 2026

The UAE dominated the tour and the prize money distribution. (Photo: ASO)