1975–76 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The 10th World Cup season began in December 1975 in France and concluded in March 1976 in Canada. Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden won the first of his three consecutive overall titles. Defending women's overall champion Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who had won five straight overall titles, missed the entire season so that she could care for her father, who was terminally ill with lung cancer. In her absence, Rosi Mittermaier of West Germany, a double gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics, won the women's overall title.

FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 1975/76
Discipline Men Women
Overall Ingemar Stenmark Rosi Mittermaier
Downhill Franz Klammer Brigitte Totschnig
Giant slalom Ingemar Stenmark Lise-Marie Morerod
Slalom Ingemar Stenmark Rosi Mittermaier
Combined Walter Tresch Rosi Mittermaier
Nations Cup Italy Austria
Nations Cup overall Austria
Competition
Locations 13 12
Individual 25 26

This was also the first year that a season champion was recognized in the Combined discipline, which was added the previous year. After this year, the World Cup would not award a season championship trophy in Combined again until 1980. Additionally, individual parallel slalom was made a permanent fixture at the season-ending Nations Cup championships; however, it only counted for the team competition. After 1992, it was replaced by a team parallel slalom event, which again only counted for the Nations Cup team competition.

A break in the schedule in February was for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

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