ISU Challenger Series

The ISU Council decided to create the series at its February 2014 meeting.[1] Eleven competitions were selected in June 2014.[2] The Triglav Trophy dropped out by October 10, 2014, resulting in a series composed of ten events.[3] The Nebelhorn Trophy, Finlandia Trophy, Ondrej Nepela Memorial, and Golden Spin of Zagreb are the "core group".[4] The event criteria was published in April 2014,[5] and revised in August 2014.[6]

The notice on the ISU Challenger Series Synchronized Skating was announced on May 10, 2019, which is for the discipline of synchronized skating and is held separately from the other ISU Challenger Series.[7]

Asian Open Classic was planned to be included in the 2019–20 season, but ISU transferred the event holding right back to Asian Open Trophy later.[8]

In the 2020–21 season, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided to hold the Challenger competitions as individual events, rather than as a series.[9] Entry limits per country were also removed.[10]

Each skater or duo is permitted to compete in up to three ISU Challenger Series events. Their two highest scores determine the final ranking.[5]

Men

Season	1st	2nd	3rd	Refs
2014–15	Michal Březina	Alexander Petrov	Konstantin Menshov	[3]
2015–16	Jason Brown	Max Aaron	Mikhail Kolyada	[11]
2016–17	Jason Brown	Alexander Petrov	Max Aaron	[12]
2017–18	Mikhail Kolyada	Sergei Voronov	Moris Kvitelashvili	[13]
2018–19	Mikhail Kolyada	Cha Jun-hwan	Jason Brown	[14]
2019–20	Dmitri Aliev	Daniel Grassl	Sota Yamamoto	[15]

Ladies

Season	1st	2nd	3rd	Refs
2014–15	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Alena Leonova	Hannah Miller	[16]
2015–16	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Anna Pogorilaya	Adelina Sotnikova	[17]
2016–17	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Mirai Nagasu	Mariah Bell	[18]
2017–18	Carolina Kostner	Stanislava Konstantinova	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[19]
2018–19	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Bradie Tennell	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	[20]
2019–20	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Young You	Eunsoo Lim	[21]

Pairs

Season	1st	2nd	3rd	Refs
2014–15	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier	Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu	[22]
2015–16	Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot	Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov	Natalja Zabijako / Alexander Enbert	[23]
2016–17	Valentina Marchei / Ondřej Hotárek	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov	[24]
2017–18	Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert	Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise	Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov	[25]
2018–19	Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro	Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin	[26]
2019–20	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert	[27]

Ice dancing

Season	1st	2nd	3rd	Refs
2014–15	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi	[28]
2015–16	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko	Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev	[29]
2016–17	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	[30]
2017–18	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	[31]
2018–19	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko	[32]
2019–20	Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Madison Chock / Evan Bates	Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen	[33]

At the end of the series, prize money is awarded to skaters who finished in the top three in each discipline in the final ranking. In pairs and ice dancing, the partners split the prize money.

From the 2014–15 season through to the 2019–2020 season:[5][34][4][35][36][37]

• ISU Challenger Series at the International Skating Union