The 2026-2027 Alpine Ski World Cup season is just around the corner. After months of waiting, the skiing circus will be back in 60 days. Sölden (Tirol, Austria) will again host the first Races of the season. As every year, the Women's Giant Slalom opens the new World Cup.

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup was launched in 1966. One year later the inaugural World Cup race was held On January 5, in Berchtesgaden (GER)

Mikaela Shiffrin has won the Overall Alpine Ski World Cup title six times (in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2026). Only Marcel Hirscher (8) and Annemarie Moser-Pröll (6) have won the Overall World Cup at least six times. She goes past Lindsey Vonn as the American with the most Big Globes to her name.

Nine World Cup wins this season, two discipline Crystal Globes (Downhill and Super-G), and another Overall World Cup title. Marco Odermatt (Switzerland) has once again demonstrated he is the most consistent and therefore the best ski racer of our era for the fifth consecutive time.

Following Henrik Kristoffersen, Christof Innerhofer, Alice Robinson, and Lara Colturi, HEAD announced the next high-profile signing for the Worldcup Rebels: Ester Ledecka.

After a long period of uncertainty, Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami announced her retirement today. Lara Gut-Behrami is a Swiss alpine ski racer known for her outstanding achievements in the sport and her exceptional talent, who forged her own path. She was a true overall skier this season, as her victories came in four disciplines: Downhill, Super-G, Giant Slalom, and Alpine Combined.

The 2026-2027 Alpine Ski World Cup season is just around the corner. After months of waiting, the skiing circus will be back in 100 days. Sölden (Tirol, Austria) will again host the first Races of the season. As every year, the Women's Giant Slalom opens the new World Cup.

Lara Colturi is now the fourth high-profile new addition to the HEAD Worldcup Rebels! The 19-year-old sky prodigy, who represents the Albanian Ski Federation, will strengthen the HEAD team in the coming Alpine Ski World Cup season, joining Henrik Kristoffersen, Christof Innerhofer and Alice Robinson.

The 2026–2027 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom season will begin with Women's and Men's races on the 'Levi Black' slope in Levi, Finland, on 14–15 November.

Atle Lie McGrath, who won three Slalom races this year in Alta Badia, Wengen, and Kranjska Gora, and finished on the podium six times, secured the discipline's Crystal Globe by finishing 64 points ahead of Clément Noël and 73 points ahead of his former teammate, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen.

Mikaela Shiffrin secured the Slalom Crystal Globe by earning 980 points out of a possible 1000 in the Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom season, achieving nine wins and one second-place finish. The Swiss duo of Camille Rast (538 points) and Wendy Holdener (498 points) finished in second and third place, respectively.

On June 11, at the 57th FIS Congress in Belgrade, Liechtenstein's Alexander Ospelt won the presidency of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) by a single vote, defeating the incumbent Johan Eliasch.

Yet another top Alpine Ski World Cup skier signs up to the HEAD Worldcup Rebels! Following Henrik Kristoffersen and Christof Innerhofer, HEAD secures a high-profile new signing for the women's Alpine Ski World Cup team: Alice Robinson

Since its inception in 1967, Giant Slalom has been an integral part of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. At the end of October, the 2025-2026 winter season kicks off with the traditional Women's and Men's Giant Slalom races on the Rettenbach Glacier in Soelden.

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the Giant Slalom Olympic Champion, won the Giant Slalom Alpine Ski World Cup Crystal Globe during the 2025-2026 winter season. The 25-year-old Brazilian celebrated his second victory of the season in this discipline at the last race held in Hafjell, snatching the title from Marco Odermatt.

Julia Scheib finished on the podium eight times in ten Alpine Ski World Cup Giant Slalom races during the 2025-2026 winter season, winning five of those races (Sölden, Tremblant, Semmering, Kronplatz, and Are), with two second-place finishes and a third-place finish in the final race at the Finals in Hafjell.

Super-G, along with Downhill, is considered a "speed" event, unlike the technical events such as Giant Slalom and Slalom. It debuted as an official Alpine Ski World Cup event in 1983 and was included in the official schedules of the 1987 World Championships in Crans-Montana and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

This season, Marco Odermatt clinched his fourth consecutive Super-G Crystal Globe. Aksel Lund Svindal and Hermann Maier share the Men's record with five Super-G titles, while Pirmin Zurbriggen won four. The 28-year-old Swiss superstar is the first man since Maier to win three Super-G globes in a row. He holds the Men's record with four Super-G globes in a row from 1998-2001.

Sofia Goggia won the last Super-G of the Alpine Ski World Cup season in Kvitfjell and claimed her first career Super-G title.

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup for the 2025-2026 winter season kicks off with the Giant Slalom in Sölden, Austria, and concludes with the World Cup Finals in Sun Valley in March. The highlight of the upcoming season will be the Alpine World Ski Championships held in Crans-Montana.