The 2016–17 figure skating season began on July 1, 2016, and ended on June 30, 2017. During this season, elite skaters competed at the 2017 European Championships, Four Continents Championships, World Junior Championships, and World Championships. They also competed at elite events such as the Grand Prix series and Junior Grand Prix series, culminating at the Grand Prix Final, and the Challenger Series.

Skaters were eligible to compete in International Skating Union (ISU) events at the junior or senior levels according to their age. These rules may not have applied to non-ISU events such as national championships.^[1]

If skaters of different nationalities formed a team, the ISU required that they choose one country to represent. The date provided is the date when the change occurred or, if not available, the date when the change was announced.

Partnership changes

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Date	Skaters	Disc.	Type	Ref.
July 11, 2016	Federica Testa / Lukáš Csölley	Ice dance	Dissolved	[2]
	Lucie Myslivečková / Lukáš Csölley		Formed
July 13, 2016	Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang		Dissolved	[3]
July 14, 2016	Deanna Stellato / Nathan Bartholomay	Pairs	Formed	[4]
July 24, 2016	Natasha Purich / Davin Portz			[5]
August 1, 2016	Emily Hayward / Hamish Gaman			[6]
August 10, 2016	Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage		Dissolved	[7]
August 11, 2016	Justyna Plutowska / Jérémie Flemin	Ice dance	Formed	[8]
	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Pairs		[9]
September 7, 2016	Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette	Ice dance	Dissolved	[10]
November 17, 2016	Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat	Pairs		[11]
December 25, 2016	Anna Yanovskaya / Ádám Lukács	Ice dance	Formed	[12]
January 10, 2017	Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert	Pairs	Dissolved	[13]
February 9, 2017	Annika Hocke / Ruben Blommaert		Formed	[14]
February 22, 2017	Mari Vartmann / Matti Landgraf			[15]
March 3, 2017	Winter Deardorff / Max Settlage			[16]
April 15, 2017	Taylor Tran / Saulius Ambrulevičius	Ice dance	Dissolved	[17]
May 18, 2017	Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin			[18]

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Retirements

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Date	Skater(s)	Disc.	Ref.
July 11, 2016	Federica Testa	Ice dance	[2]
July 12, 2016	Denis Margalik	Men	[19]
July 13, 2016	Zhao Kai Pang	Ice dance	[3]
July 28, 2016	Andrei Rogozine	Men	[20]
August 3, 2016	Barbora Silná / Juri Kurakin	Ice dance	[21]
August 4, 2016	Andréanne Poulin / Marc-André Servant		[22]
December 15, 2016	Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam		[23]
February 23, 2017	Meryl Davis / Charlie White		[24]
March 31, 2017	Evgeni Plushenko	Men	[25]
April 10, 2017	Mao Asada	Ladies	[26]
April 15, 2017	Taylor Tran	Ice dance	[17]
April 23, 2017	Kanako Murakami	Ladies	[27]
May 3, 2017	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus	Ice dance	[28]
May 8, 2017	Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion		[29]
May 18, 2017	Ruslan Zhiganshin		[18]
April 3, 2017	Lee Ho-jung
June 22, 2017	Jeremy Abbott	Men	[30]

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Coaching changes

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Date	Skater(s)	Disc.	From	To	Ref.
July 8, 2016	Tomoki Hiwatashi	Men	Alexander Ouriashev & Osadolo Irowa	Kori Ade	[31]
July 21, 2016	Vincent Zhou		Tom Zakrajsek & Becky Calvin	Tammy Gambill	[32]
August 10, 2016	Courtney Hicks	Ladies	Jere Michael & Alex Chang	Todd Sand & John Nicks	[33]
August 23, 2016	Hannah Miller		Rafael Arutunian	Tammy Gambill	[34]
	Mariah Bell		Kori Ade, Rohene Ward & Billy Schneider	Rafael Arutunian	[35]
	Romain Ponsart	Men	Brian Joubert
August 25, 2016	Deniss Vasiļjevs		Alexei Urmanov & Ingrida Snieškienė	Stéphane Lambiel	[36]
August 30, 2016	Brooklee Han	Ladies	Serhii Vaypan	Peter Cain & Darlene Cain	[37]
January 22, 2017	Gracie Gold		Frank Carroll	Marina Zueva & Oleg Epstein	[38]
April 4, 2017	Adelina Sotnikova		Elena Vodorezova	Evgeni Plushenko	[39]
April 28, 2017	Elena Radionova		Inna Goncharenko	Elena Vodorezova	[40]

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