Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet revealed on Thursday the list of requirements for potential Eurovision 2024 host cities. Meeting these demands are essential for cities that want to organise next year’s contest following the historic victory for Sweden’s Loreen in Liverpool in May.
The date for the Grand Final will be either 11 May or 18 May 2024 but a decision hasn’t been made yet. That’s according to SVT’s executive producer for Eurovision 2024, Ebba Adielsson. For now we know the following cities are bidding to host next year’s contest: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Örnsköldsvik. The first three have all hosted Eurovision Song Contests before and Örnsköldsvik has been a regular on the Melfest tour in recent years.
Here are some of the requirements. Whichever city is chosen needs to have at least 3,500 hotel rooms available. It also needs a press centre with room for 1,200 people, which is a bump from the 500 people accredited since 2021. The city needs a space with room for a 200- to 300-metre turquoise carpet for the opening ceremony and a venue for the official Euroclub. To avoid the exorbitant rise in hotel prices that Liverpool saw this year, the demand is that prices are fixed for a two-week period leading up to the contest.
The city would also have to extend the right to serve alcohol to at least 3 AM if that isn’t allowed beforehand. And the city will have to bear the costs of all the arrangements surrounding the event, excluding the production of Eurovision itself, which SVT will pay for.
SVT’s head of press, Camilla Hagert, told Aftonbladet that they hope to be able to reveal the host city in the beginning of July this year.
Which city are you hoping will host Eurovision 2024? And what would you like a host city to focus on for the travelling fans? Let us know in the comments below.
Stockholm is the big favourite to host, but practiacly, only Malmö ticks all the boxes! ‘Tele2 Arena’ and ‘Friends Arena’ are too big for the event (plus local sporting clubs don’t want to get displaced), ‘Globen’ will be closed for renovation, and Göteborg’s ‘Scandinavium’ has a low ceiling.
“Too big for the event” Eurovision in Denmark in 2001 had 38,000 attend. Imagine how many people would go now if capacity allows for that many or more, especially in Sweden.
Sweden has very few options with renovations and other events going on, so the temporary arena would definitely help.
2001 was 22 years before! By then many things have changed regarding the Contest. Also, I don’t think the EBU would risk on a temporary venue, that would also be a complete waste of money because Stockholm has so many venues, that just don’t fit for this contest, for that period of time.
But Friends Arena will not have full capacity. With the stage you lose around 30% of the seating. Plus you need a green room
Taylor Swift just announced that her “The Eras Tour” will be coming to Stockholm’s Friends Arena 17.5.2024 so it looks like the whole city is out of question as of now. Tele2 might have to share their arena already with the football team that uses Friends Arena.
I know nothing about Sweden. So the best comment I can make is: Good luck. 🙂
we know everything about generic Sweden, lmao
the most elitist country in the world, every swedish person is super rich
their native language is English
their most successful artists are ABBA, Loreen, Britney Spears, Ingrosso Mobsters, David Guetta
imagine wanting to host eurovision aka a dead contest
Sweden shouldn’t have won this year end of, but yet again the fans voted for lifeless fastfood trash ugh
I really hope it’s Gothenburg, I have friends who live there,so maybe I can score some tickets. But I missed ???????????CHACHACHA,damnit…..
Sigh, so the annual tradition of fans screaming “We want Eurovision somewhere obscure rather than the country’s flagship city” begins.
There’s nothing obscure at all about places like Rotterdam, Torino or Liverpool, your comment makes zero sense.
Some people simply want variety. While it would be fine for Poland to host in Warsaw, Slovenia to host in Ljubjana, or Romania to host in Bucharest, we’ve already seen Stockholm hosting Eurovision. For the same reason, I’d like it to be Porto/Bragança and not Lisbon in case Portugal wins again, Tartu/Parnu and not Tallinn in case Estonia wins again, or Lviv/Odesa and not Kyiv in case Ukraine wins again.
But Sweden is not UK or Germany. Our cities are not that big. I mean I would love for towns like Jönköping or Halmstad to host but they simply are not capable enough. If we had population like UK or Italy then we probably could have other cities..
The Eurovision Song Contest is more or less a TV show, as it has always been. Historic data proves that you can still manage to deliver a decent show in a small venue. To some extent, it’s even an advantage. The real question here, though, is hotel capacity, as we usually have venues with a capacity of 8K to 16K seats allocated. During this millennium, only Athens, Baku, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Lisbon, and Moscow chose venues with a capacity over 20K. Plus, need I tell you, since 2000, Sweden has hosted Eurovision three times already, with its fourth hosting on the… Read more »
Well problem is we do not have big arenas outside the major cities. They have to follow EBU criteria. It needs to be big to have room
And there is also other issues. Like hotel rooms. Or getting to the host city. And getting to the arena from the hotels. Now anything outside the three major cities would be difficult since they either lack airports or have small airports. Unless they all should travel by train or bus
Apparently those football clubs don’t want to give out Friends Arena or Tele2 Arena in Stockholm so who knows where we go, I think they said same things in 2016 and 2013 too. And back then we went to Malmö and 2016 to Globen, which isn’t an option this year.. so Malmö or Gothenburg are most likely to happen.
Problem with Göteborg is that the arena in not suitable for ESC. It needs a new roof. But they said they can fix it so who knows?
Hopefully Stockholm gets it in the Friends Arena. As for shortening the length of the show, I totally agree! I’ve been watching Eurovision every year since 1993 and to see it grow to the mammoth 4 hours and 15 minutes that it was this year is just too much. 3 hours is perfect: No need for the flag parade, that’s what the postcards are for, recap the songs twice, get last year’s winner to perform the interval act and start the voting. Also, all announcers should drop the whole “Thank you for a wonderful show, now let me take up… Read more »
Really hope it’s a new town or city we haven’t seen for some time or at least not Stockholm. Give us at least Gothenburg! Go Go Gothenburg!
The only city that can host this huge event is Stockholm. A very beautiful and safe city with the strength of great hotels, bars/clubs and transport and the national Friends Arena.
Anywere else but Twitter Stockholm
Speaking of safety, in 2023, Stockholm was ranked as the 8th most dangerous city in Europe. Source: https://theboutiqueadventurer.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-europe/
it’s below Amsterdam, London, and Paris, so I guess we can’t host Eurovision in those cities either?
The biggest thing mentioned in the article is that svt aims to shorten the grand finale by one full hour. That sounds like a disaster to me.. That news alone kinda deserves it’s own post.
I think it is great. I mean 4 hours of ESC, is it needed? Even the most patient fan would struggle.. Endless interval acts and three, yes, three voting re -caps. Is it needed?
Just have one major interval act, one voting re- cap and then the voting. The rest is just fillers
not to mention the “cringe jokes moment”. maybe 1 h is too much, but at least 30 min they can easily cut out
In a time of streaming. With people watching 3-6 episodes of a show. With each episode being 45 min – 1 hour long… a 4 hour long ESC final once a year is no problem
Not if most of it are fillers? it really need to be that long? I mean by the end of winning performance it was way past 4 h 30 min. Do we need 5 interval acts? Or three re- caps? Just cut straight to the most important stuff which is the voting
Denis, it’s just really unfun to see you defending anything Sweden/SVT do or wanna do. Like, get out of your bubble, jeeeeeeeeeez!
Wow, we have no host city or anything and they’re ALREADY demanding to change things?
They are not demanding, they are preposing to make it shorter than 4h 30 minutes. The reference group makes the final decision
I repeat. This is one evening, one time a year… you survive.
That would be a dream, i fell asleep during this years show, it is too long!
I would much rather see an hour shaved off the final with maybe less songs – 26 is far too many and in general the first handful of songs always suffer in the televote. 20 songs would be ideal in my opinion. Less songs would hopefully see the producers not kill a song’s chance in winning eg Austria this year, Malta in 2021. Both of these had every country televote for them but struggled due to running order in the grand final.
*every country on their respective SF
Another idea would be to have regional qualifiers based on the pots. 5/6 SFs over a course of a long weekend about 6 weeks prior to the Grand Final. 2 or 3 from each pot could go through and then we can see how TV stations who’ve not held Eurovision would put on a show.
That’s one thing that’s actually good. We really don’t need that many filler interval acts or so many recaps. Interval acts bring no additional value to Eurovision, as these are usually American stars coming to the stage. One, which is last year’s winner’s performance, is more than enough. As for recaps, let’s be honest: those who vote already know who they’re going to vote for. There’s no need to repeat the numbers over and over again.
That being said, many people will be jumping for joy (not me) because they think there’s too much wasted time on the hosts and not on the songs.
yes cut down on those irrelevant too many interval act nonsense things
we only need the participants songs, nothing else to make a show
Utter nonsense above from you all. It is one night a year.. you survive
Well yes but even so it is patience trying. I was not the only one falling asleep few times. To much irrelevant stuff going on. And do they need three voting re caps? That is waste of time! I rather they go straight to the point and announce votes than another singer with no relevanse to the contest
I have a feeling it could be Gothenburg this year.
How will they fix the hotel prices in a free economy? I’m just curious what charges a municipality can press on a hotel that can set their own prices anyway, that refuses to do so.
I hope Petra Meade hosts
Kinda hoping we won’t go to Stockholm next year, constant shootings even during daytime makes it just nerve wrecking place, last week a 15-year-old was shot dead while one 45-year-old man and 65-year-old woman were left wounded. Awful news.
Man i am completely anti Sweden at Eurovision but your reason IS just stupid.
i mean, let’s hope we don’t go to Liverpool in 2023, then – oh wait.. https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/23142585.figures-show-knife-gun-crime-increase-merseyside/
Do you have a link to check the news? I can’t find it anywhere
Yes, here’s pretty good info (bottom) about total shootings from last year as well as from this year:
https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-teenager-killed-three-injured-in-shooting/a-65882243
Shootings happen everywhere in Sweden, not just Stockholm. Malmo has a high crime rate too. I actually think Sweden is a very safe country for visitors especially in the city centres, they just have some issues with gang related crime etc that mainly happens in certain areas on the suburbs but it shouldn’t put anyone off from going there.
Kyiv 2017 actually had more real problems yet no was afraid to go there. Tel Aviv 2019 was not calm either..
and i will secretly root for ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK
Me too!
I have been puking since May just thinking that Eurovision Will be held in Sweden. As usual they Will make changes, they Will reshape Eurovision, they Will make the actual Festival shorter so that they have more time to brainwash the audience into believing that Abba was the BEST thing that happened to humanity after the “invention” of fire.
I think i am gonna make a Portugal Next year and Skip Eurovisión.
3 people downvoting me on a Friday night means 3 gays not f..ING on a Friday.
26 and counting.
You must be fun to party with…
Your xenophobia is showing! Get a life.
Sweden will host yet another amazing edition of the contest
I think i prefer to have my sexy/gender/ whatever you call It reassigned with a chainsaw than to watch a Eurovision held in Sweden.
I did not ask you.. but good luck with the chainsaw I guess
And I did not ask you about my sex reassignment either.
You did..
The fixed hotel prices are a great measure so that over-the-top profiteering is avoided. Also the fact that the press room will be of bigger capacity now might mean that SVT aims at including fans more to the buildup of the contest than what was experienced from 2021 up until 2023 (let’s see if that will be the case).
Stockholm ?
“Örnsköldsvik” is coming
So the same demands as every year then?
Not sure why it needs to be secret then. But OK ..
that’s a weird title, but clickbaity nonetheless. as for the rules they’re literary the same except for the fixed hotel prices.