1981–82 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Bill Koch	Berit Aunli
Nations Cup	Norway	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Competition
Locations	8 venues	8 venues
Individual	10 events	10 events
Relay/Team	1 event	1 event
1982–83→

The 1981–82 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the first official World Cup in cross-country skiing. It was arranged by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The 1981/82 World Cup started in Reit im Winkl, West Germany on 9 January 1982 and finished in Kiruna, Sweden on 13 April 1982. Bill Koch of United States won the overall men's event, and Berit Aunli of Norway won the women's.

• NOTE: Races marked with (*) counts officially for both as "FIS World Cup" / "FIS Nordic World Ski Championships" wins statistics.

No.	Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	9 January 1982	Reit im Winkl	15 km	Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass	Tor Håkon Holte	Thomas Wassberg	[1]
2	16 January 1982	Le Brassus	15 km	Bill Koch	Thomas Wassberg	Benny Kohlberg	[2]
3	24 January 1982	Brusson	30 km	Bill Koch	Jean-Paul Pierrat	Sergey Sokarev	[3]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982
4	20 February 1982	Oslo	30 km *	Thomas Eriksson	Lars Erik Eriksen	Bill Koch	[4]
5	23 February 1982		15 km *	Oddvar Brå	Alexander Zavyalov	Harri Kirvesniemi	[5]
6	27 February 1982		50 km *	Thomas Wassberg	Yuriy Burlakov	Lars Erik Eriksen	[6]
7	7 March 1982	Lahti	50 km	Oddvar Brå	Jan Lindvall	Maurilio De Zolt	[7]
8	12 March 1982	Falun	30 km	Bill Koch	Dan Simoneau	Thomas Wassberg	[8]
9	19 March 1982	Štrbské Pleso	15 km	Harri Kirvesniemi	Thomas Wassberg	Jochen Behle	[9]
10	27 March 1982	Kastelruth	15 km	Bill Koch	Miloš Bečvář	Harri Kirvesniemi	[10]

No.	Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	9 January 1982	Klingenthal	10 km	Květa Jeriová	Brit Pettersen	Anna Pasiarová	[11]
2	15 January 1982	La Bresse	5 km	Květa Jeriová	Berit Aunli	Marit Myrmæl	[12]
3	22 January 1982	Furtwangen	5 km	Květa Jeriová	Gabriela Svobodová	Blanka Paulů	[13]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982
4	19 February 1982	Oslo	10 km *	Berit Aunli	Hilkka Riihivuori	Květa Jeriová	[14]
5	22 February 1982		5 km *	Berit Aunli	Hilkka Riihivuori	Brit Pettersen	[15]
6	26 February 1982		20 km *	Raisa Smetanina	Berit Aunli	Hilkka Riihivuori	[16]
7	6 March 1982	Lahti	10 km	Anette Bøe	Berit Aunli	Inger Helene Nybråten	[17]
8	12 March 1982	Falun	20 km	Brit Pettersen	Marit Myrmæl	Anette Bøe	[18]
9	28 March 1982	Štrbské Pleso	10 km	Blanka Paulů	Berit Aunli	Karin Jäger	[19]
10	13 April 1982	Kiruna	5 km	Brit Pettersen	Berit Aunli	Inger Helene Nybråten	[20]

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
25 February 1982	Oslo	Relay 4 × 10 km*	Norway Lars Erik Eriksen Ove Aunli Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass Oddvar Brå   Soviet Union Vladimir Nikitin Oleksandr Batyuk Yuriy Burlakov Alexander Zavyalov	none	Finland Kari Härkönen Aki Karvonen Harri Kirvesniemi Juha Mieto   East Germany Uwe Bellmann Uwe Wünsch Stefan Schicker Frank Schröder	[21]

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
24 February 1982	Oslo	Relay 4 × 5 km*	Norway Anette Bøe Inger Helene Nybråten Berit Aunli Brit Pettersen	Soviet Union Lyubov Lyadova Lyubov Zabolotskaya Raisa Smetanina Galina Kulakova	East Germany Petra Sölter Carola Anding Barbara Petzold Veronika Hesse	[22]

Men's standings Rank Points 1 Bill Koch 121 2 Thomas Wassberg 114 3 Harri Kirvesniemi 106 4 Jean-Paul Pierrat 82 5 Oddvar Brå 77 6 Jochen Behle 67 7 Jan Ottosson 60 Dan Simoneau 60 9 Giorgio Vanzetta 57 10 Yuriy Burlakov 56

Women's standings Rank Points 1 Berit Aunli 136 2 Brit Pettersen 126 3 Květa Jeriová 113 4 Marit Myrmæl 104 5 Anette Bøe 95 6 Anna Pasiarová 92 7 Blanka Paulů 81 8 Karin Jäger 79 9 Inger Helene Nybråten 76 10 Marie Johansson 74

Victories in this World Cup