2019–20 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup


The International Ski Federation Alpine Ski World Cup is the premier circuit for alpine skiing competition. The inaugural season launched in January 1967, and the season marks the 54th consecutive year for the FIS World Cup. As it has every year since 2006, the season began in Sölden, Austria in October. The season was supposed to end with the World Cup finals in March, which were to be held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy for the first time since they began in 1993, but the finals were cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy.
As part of an effort to control the expansion of the World Cup circuit while fighting increased specialization, the city events have been dropped this season, to be replaced by more parallel events at regular venues, while the Alpine combined has been expanded. Due to the recent dominance of slalom specialists in the Alpine combined races, the format for that discipline will be changed this season. As is currently the case, the first run will be the speed discipline. However, instead of the slalom run starting in reverse order of finish in the speed run, which has allowed the slalom specialists to tackle fresh snow for their run, while the speed specialists have to face the rutted snow at the end of the day, the skiers in the slalom run will now start in the same order as they finished the speed run.
Parallel format will also be changed to make the race more TV-friendly. Parallel races will now begin with one classic qualification run with a single competitor on the slope, after which the top 32 qualifiers by time will advance to the elimination phase of the main competition. The round of 32 will use the current run and re-run format, so that each competitor gets to start from each side, but from the round of 16 forward, there will be only one run per race and a direct knockout system.. However, the new format immediately became controversial, as making two giant slalom courses equal in a single-run format proved impossible, and both the first men's and women's parallel giant slalom races suffered from "the luck of the draw" becoming determinative -- in the men's race, all eight round-of-16 matches were won by the racer on the same randomly-selected course, and in the women's race, 17 of 20 winners came from the same course.
In addition, a new sixth discipline—parallel events —will be introduced. A small crystal globe will be awarded to the winner.
On 1 February 2020, then-women's World Cup overall leader Mikaela Shiffrin's father Jeff suffered grave injuries in an accident, and Shiffrin immediately left the World Cup tour. His injuries proved fatal, and Shiffrin remained off the tour for the rest of the season.

Men

;The number of races in the World Cup history
including DH in Kvitfjell

Calendar

Rankings

Overall

Downhill

Super G

Giant slalom

Parallel (2 PG)

Slalom

Alpine combined

Ladies

;The number of races in the World Cup history
including SG in La Thuile

Calendar

Rankings

Overall

Downhill

Super G

Giant slalom

Slalom

Alpine combined

Parallel (1 PG + 1 PS)

Alpine team event

;World Cup history in real time
including PGS in Soldeu

Calendar

Nations Cup

Overall
Men
Ladies

Prize money

Top-5 men
Top-5 ladies

Retirements

The following athletes announced their retirements during or after the season:

Men