It was held on 20 April 2014 over a distance of 251 kilometres (156.0 miles) and it was the eleventh race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season.

It was won for the third time by Belgium's Philippe Gilbert, ahead of countryman Jelle Vanendert and Australia's Simon Gerrans.

[1] As the Amstel Gold Race was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad.

Six other squads were given wildcard places, thus completing the 24-team peloton.

The 24 teams competed in the race were:[2]