Ski Jumping World Cup 2026/27: Calendar and Prize Money
The 2026/27 men’s Ski Jumping World Cup season already has an official calendar published by the FIS, with two events in Poland, the complete schedule of the Four Hills Tournament and, something that less often reaches the Polish media, an open prize-money table for every competition. Below are just the facts: when and where the season’s competitions take place, on which hills and in which format (individual, team, ski flying), when the jumpers come to Wisła and Zakopane, and how much the organiser pays for a given place according to the official FIS prize-money table. We explain the scoring rules, the two-round system and the wind compensation separately – here we focus solely on the calendar and the money. You will find no odds, tips or result forecasts here – every date and amount has its source given.
As of 30 October 2026. The calendar is based on the official FIS document “FIS Ski Jumping World Cup 2026/27 – Men” (the detailed technical calendar with dates, HS hill sizes and competition types) and on the combined calendar “FIS Nordic World Cups 2026/27”; the prize money is based on the FIS document “Rules for the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup (Men), Edition 2026/2027” (section 5.1 “Prize Money”, document created on 20 July 2026). The season has not started yet – the first competition (a mixed team event) is scheduled for 20 November 2026 in Lillehammer. The competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as part of the Four Hills Tournament was marked in earlier versions of the FIS calendar as not confirmed by the German Ski Association; the funding dispute ended in an agreement on 15 June 2026, and in the version of the FIS calendar of 7 October 2026 the competition no longer has such a note.
World Cup calendar 2026/27
The table below covers all the men’s Ski Jumping World Cup dates planned for the 2026/27 season, leaving out only the break for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (Falun, 22 February – 7 March 2027): that is a separate event, in which points and the prize pool do not count towards the World Cup standings or budget. The season has seventeen stops in nine countries: thirteen competition weekends and the four competitions of the Four Hills Tournament, to be held between 29 December and 6 January.
| Date | Venue | Hill (HS) | Competition type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20–22.11.2026 | Lillehammer (Norway) | HS 140 | mixed team (season opener) + 2× individual |
| 28–29.11.2026 | Ruka (Finland) | HS 142 | 2× individual |
| 5–6.12.2026 | Wisła (Poland) | HS 134 | 2× individual |
| 11–13.12.2026 | Titisee-Neustadt (Germany) | HS 142 | team + 2× individual |
| 19–20.12.2026 | Engelberg (Switzerland) | HS 140 | 2× individual |
| 29.12.2026 | Oberstdorf (Germany) | HS 137 | individual – 1st event of the Four Hills Tournament |
| 1.01.2027 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) | HS 142 | individual, 2nd event of the Tournament |
| 3.01.2027 | Innsbruck (Austria) | HS 128 | individual – 3rd event of the Tournament |
| 6.01.2027 | Bischofshofen (Austria) | HS 142 | individual – 4th event and finale of the Tournament |
| 16–17.01.2027 | Zakopane (Poland) | HS 140 | team + individual |
| 23–24.01.2027 | Sapporo (Japan) | HS 137 | mixed team + 2× individual |
| 29–31.01.2027 | Willingen (Germany) | HS 147 | mixed team + 2× individual |
| 6–7.02.2027 | Lake Placid (USA) | HS 128 | individual + mixed team |
| 13–14.02.2027 | Lahti (Finland) | HS 130 / HS 100 | team (HS 130) + individual (HS 100, a test before the World Championships on the normal hill) |
| 20–21.02.2027 | Vikersund (Norway) | HS 240 (flying hill) | 2× individual – ski flying |
| 13–14.03.2027 | Oslo (Norway) | HS 134 | 2× individual |
| 19–21.03.2027 | Planica (Slovenia) | HS 240 (flying hill) | individual + team + final ski-flying competition (season finale) |
Earlier versions of the official FIS document marked the competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1 January 2027, the second leg of the Four Hills Tournament) as not confirmed by the German Ski Association (DSV). The dispute between the DSV and the organiser ended in an agreement on 15 June 2026, and the version of the FIS document of 7 October 2026 no longer contains any notes about unconfirmed competitions: all dates now stand without any caveat, including both competitions in Poland and the whole Four Hills Tournament.
The FIS document divides the season into five so-called periods, numbered in it from III to VII and separated by short breaks in the calendar: the first of them (III) covers the season opener up to Engelberg, the second (IV) is the Four Hills Tournament itself, the following ones (V and VI) lead through Zakopane, the Far East and North America, and the last (VII) ends in Planica. The competitions are held in nine countries on three continents, from Japan and the United States to Scandinavia and Central Europe, and most of the European competitions in December and January are marked in the FIS document as “night”, that is, held under artificial lighting after dark.
Competitions in Poland
The World Cup has two stops in Poland in the 2026/27 season: traditionally Wisła at the opening of winter and Zakopane in the middle of the season, right after the Four Hills Tournament.
| Date | Venue | Hill (HS) | Competition type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5–6.12.2026 | Wisła | HS 134 | 2× individual (Sunday’s field based on Saturday’s result, the best 50) |
| 16–17.01.2027 | Zakopane | HS 140 | team (Saturday) + individual (Sunday) |
This season Wisła hosts the third weekend of the calendar, after Lillehammer and Ruka, and according to the FIS document it is the only Polish stop with two individual competitions in a row: the field for Sunday’s event is determined by the result of Saturday’s competition (the best fifty jumpers of Saturday go through to the second day, not the general entry list). The competition in Zakopane takes place ten days after the end of the Four Hills Tournament in Bischofshofen and, unlike Wisła, combines a team event on Saturday with a single individual event on Sunday.
Four Hills Tournament 2026/27
From 28 December 2026 to 6 January 2027, according to the official website vierschanzentournee.com, the 75th Four Hills Tournament will take place, with four main competitions spread across two countries. The points from each of them count normally towards the overall World Cup standings, and a separate, traditional standing of the Tournament itself is kept in addition.
- Oberstdorf (Germany), 29 December 2026 – HS 137, the traditional opening of the Tournament on the large hill, the Schattenbergschanze.
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany), 1 January 2027 – HS 142, the New Year’s competition; in the version of the FIS calendar of 7 October 2026 without the note about lack of confirmation that earlier versions had (the DSV’s financial dispute with the organiser ended in an agreement on 15 June 2026).
- Innsbruck (Austria), 3 January 2027 – HS 128, on the Bergisel hill.
- Bischofshofen (Austria), 6 January 2027 – HS 142, on Epiphany the victory in the whole Tournament is decided.
In the FIS technical document each of the four main competitions has only one date assigned – the day before, qualification traditionally takes place on each hill, and it is not a separate competition scoring points for the World Cup. The Tournament also has its own qualification system, described in the FIS rules and based on direct knockout (KO) duels, different from an ordinary World Cup weekend – we explain how these duels work, and why the Tournament has a separate tradition going back to the 1950s, in a separate text on the rules and scoring of the World Cup.
Season finale and ski flying
The 2026/27 season has two weekends on the largest (“mammoth”) hills, facilities built for ski flying, a variant of the discipline that goes beyond ordinary large hills. Vikersund in Norway (20–21 February 2027, HS 240) is the first of them: a stand-alone, earlier stop on the calendar, before the break for the World Championships. Planica in Slovenia (19–21 March 2027, also HS 240) is the second, and at the same time the official finale of the whole season, where the FIS has planned three competitions in a row: an individual one on Friday, a team one on Saturday and the decisive, final ski-flying competition on Sunday, marked outright in the FIS document as the “WC Final”. It is in Planica that the overall World Cup standing is decided.
The World Cup calendar makes its break for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden (22 February – 7 March 2027) between these two weekends – that is a separate event that also includes cross-country skiing and Nordic combined, in which the starts do not count towards the overall standings or the World Cup prize pool, although for the athletes themselves it is one of the most important points of the season.
There will, however, be no Ski Flying World Championships in the 2026/27 season: their last, even-year edition took place on 22–25 January 2026 in Oberstdorf, that is, before the start of this season (20 November 2026). That event is held every two years, in even years, so the next edition will be held only in March 2028 in Planica, that is, in the 2027/28 season, outside the time frame of this article.
Prize money
The prize pool for each type of competition is published outright in the FIS rules for the men’s Ski Jumping World Cup for the 2026/27 season, in euros. A total of €100,250, divided among the best thirty jumpers, must be paid out by the organiser for a single individual competition. These amounts are higher than in the 2024/25 season: in June 2025 the FIS Council agreed to raise the prize pool in all World Cup disciplines by up to 20 per cent, of which 10 percentage points are guaranteed by the FIS itself, and a further 10 may be added voluntarily by the competition organiser. The decision concerned the 2025/26 season, and the rules for the 2026/27 season keep the same amounts:
| Place | Prize (EUR) | Place | Prize (EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 15,000 | 16. | 2,100 |
| 2. | 11,500 | 17. | 1,950 |
| 3. | 9,000 | 18. | 1,800 |
| 4. | 7,000 | 19. | 1,650 |
| 5. | 6,000 | 20. | 1,500 |
| 6. | 5,000 | 21. | 1,400 |
| 7. | 4,400 | 22. | 1,300 |
| 8. | 4,000 | 23. | 1,200 |
| 9. | 3,600 | 24. | 1,100 |
| 10. | 3,200 | 25. | 1,000 |
| 11. | 3,000 | 26. | 900 |
| 12. | 2,800 | 27. | 800 |
| 13. | 2,600 | 28. | 700 |
| 14. | 2,400 | 29. | 600 |
| 15. | 2,250 | 30. | 500 |
In addition to the pool for an individual competition there is a separate prize for winning qualification – €3,175 in an ordinary competition, and €5,291 before the ski-flying competitions in Vikersund and Planica, where the qualification rate is higher.
Team and mixed team competitions, including those in Titisee-Neustadt, Zakopane, Sapporo, Willingen, Lake Placid, Lahti and Planica, have a separate, lower total pool of €97,800 for the eight best teams:
| Place | Prize (EUR) |
|---|---|
| 1. | 34,000 |
| 2. | 24,000 |
| 3. | 14,000 |
| 4. | 9,200 |
| 5. | 6,000 |
| 6. | 4,700 |
| 7. | 3,500 |
| 8. | 2,400 |
The rules also provide a third, separate pool for the super team format (teams of six instead of the standard four), €97,900 for the best twelve teams, but this type of competition does not appear in this year’s men’s World Cup calendar, so no weekend of the 2026/27 season will pay it out.
The FIS rules provide no additional cash prize for winning the overall World Cup standing or for winning the Four Hills Tournament, only trophies and medals: the Crystal Globe and a trophy for the winner of the ski-flying standing (both donated by the FIS), FIS medals for the top three of the season in both standings, and a separate trophy for the winner of the Nations Cup. An athlete’s income for the whole season is therefore built solely from the sum of the payouts for individual competitions, with no one-off bonus for the title.
FAQ
How many Ski Jumping World Cup competitions will take place in Poland in the 2026/27 season?
Two weekends: Wisła on 5–6 December 2026 (two individual competitions on the HS 134 hill) and Zakopane on 16–17 January 2027 (a team event on Saturday and an individual one on Sunday, on the HS 140 hill).
When exactly does the 2026/27 season start and end?
The season opens with a mixed team event on 20 November 2026 in Lillehammer and ends with the final ski-flying competition on 21 March 2027 in Planica, preceded there by an individual competition (19 March) and a team one (20 March).
How much money does the winner of a single World Cup competition receive?
According to the official FIS rules for the 2026/27 season, the winner of an individual competition receives €15,000, second place €11,500 and third €9,000 – we give the full table down to thirtieth place earlier in the text.
When does the 2026/27 Four Hills Tournament take place?
The 75th edition runs from 28 December 2026 to 6 January 2027, with main competitions in Oberstdorf (29 December), Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1 January), Innsbruck (3 January) and Bischofshofen (6 January) – the last of which decides the victory in the whole Tournament. The Garmisch-Partenkirchen competition was marked in earlier versions of the FIS calendar as not confirmed by the German Ski Association, but the financial dispute ended in an agreement on 15 June 2026, and the version of the calendar of 7 October 2026 no longer contains that note.
Will the Ski Flying World Championships take place in the 2026/27 season?
No. The last edition of these championships took place on 22–25 January 2026 in Oberstdorf, that is, before the start of the 2026/27 season (20 November 2026). They are held every two years, in even years, so the next edition will be held in March 2028 in Planica (2027/28 season).
How does the competition in Vikersund differ from the finale in Planica?
Both are held on HS 240 flying hills in the ski-flying format, but Vikersund (20–21 February 2027) is a stand-alone, earlier weekend of the season, whereas Planica (19–21 March 2027) is the official finale of the whole World Cup – with an individual competition, a team one and the decisive final ski-flying competition, where the overall standing of the season is decided.
Is it legal to bet on ski jumping in Poland?
Yes, World Cup competitions are a standard offer of legal bookmakers, although we give neither odds nor tips here. We have collected a ranking of operators accepting bets on ski jumping separately, in the text bookmakers for ski jumping (in Polish); in Poland, bets may legally be placed only with operators holding a licence from the Polish Ministry of Finance, whose full list we keep on the page legal bookmakers.
Sources
- FIS, FIS Ski Jumping World Cup 2026/27 – Men (detailed technical calendar: dates, HS hills, competition types, notes on the status of individual competitions), PDF document published on assets.fis-ski.com, version of 7 October 2026, retrieved on 30 October 2026.
- FIS, FIS Nordic World Cups 2026/27 (combined calendar of all Nordic disciplines, including confirmation of the window of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun), retrieved on 10 September 2026.
- FIS, Rules for the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup (Men), Edition 2026/2027, section 5.1 “Prize Money” (pool and table of prize money for individual, team, mixed team and super team competitions), document created on 20 July 2026, retrieved on 10 September 2026.
- Vierschanzentournee.com, the official website of the 75th Vierschanzentournee (dates and venues of the four Tournament competitions), retrieved on 10 September 2026.
- FIS, results database – the “Ski-Flying World Championships” event page, Oberstdorf (confirmation of the dates 22–25 January 2026 for the last edition of the ski-flying world championships), fis-ski.com, retrieved on 10 September 2026.