Alpine Ski World Cup Road Trip

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.

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.

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.

Saalbach Hinterglemm, the venue of the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships 2025, will once again be part of the World Cup in the 2026-2027 winter season. On February 27 and 28, 2027, a Men’s Downhill and a Super-G are scheduled.

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.

HEAD Worldcup Rebels have made a significant signing: Henrik Kristoffersen, a two-time World Champion and 34-time Alpine Ski World Cup race winner (26 in the Slalom, eight in the Giant Slalom), is now part of the HEAD team. The 31-year-old Norwegian skier, who has claimed the Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom Crystal Globe four times (2024-2025, 2021-2022, 2019-2020, and 2015-2016), and once the Giant Slalom Crystal Globe (2019-2020), secured a Bronze medal in the Slalom at Milano-