Nemo may have initially shattered their Eurovision trophy back in Malmö, but they brought Switzerland its third ever Eurovision win, 36 years after the country’s last victory in 1988. Since then, Switzerland’s national broadcaster, SRF, has wasted no time in getting ready to host Eurovision 2025. From preparing to select a host city to putting together its core project team for the upcoming contest, there is certainly plenty to do over the next ten months.
Switzerland to begin internal selection in August
This year, SRF will open song submissions starting on 8 August, 9:00 CET. The submission window closes on 22 August, 22:00 CET.
As in past years, SRF will host an internal selection to determine their Eurovision 2025 entry. Once all song submissions are in, SRF will begin its usual “multi-stage process”, with three sets of juries taking part: “A Swiss audience jury, an international audience jury, plus a 25-member international jury of experts who have already served as members of juries at the Eurovision Song Contest in the past”. SRF then plans to reveal the winning entry in early 2025.
In its rules, SRF states that it is looking for “a modern, striking song that complies with international requirements”. In keeping with Switzerland’s multilingual identity, the song can be submitted in any language.
And while “nationality is not a deciding factor and does not prohibit anyone from entering a song”, SRF does note that “preference will be given to performers who are Swiss citizens or who are resident in Switzerland” in the case of a tie.
Potential performers also have to meet certain criteria, including the following:
- At least 16 years old as of 1 May 2025
- Be available from January to May 2025
- Be able to perform the song live
- Their song must not have been published in whole or in part before 1 September 2024
You can read the full rules on SRF’s official website.
Who should represent Switzerland in 2025? Who has the best chance of continuing the country’s qualifying streak? Let us know in the comments below.
Is it so hard to respect Nemos pronouns?
Some people here should seriously take a break from the internet.
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Nemo are similar to Raven Van Dorst in my nation, also identifying as they/them, a very popular presenter who hosts a summer outdoor talk show Boerderij Van Dorst with various celebrity guests
Nemo is ONE person. Right? So it´s he. I guess you don´t want people to say IT about him. That wouldn´t be nice
“they/them” emerged as a singular pronoun back in the 14th century and has always been used for people without a gender or an unidentified gender, even non-LGBTQ related.
Switzerland were due to win anyway, since Luca Hanni should’ve won in 2019 and Gjon’s Tears should’ve won in 2021
just two mediocre years in 2022 with Marius’s sleeping pill and 2023 with Remo’s cliché peace ballad
otherwise pretty solid country in our wonderful contest
oh yes and daily reminder Takasa were very robbed in 2013 and sweet Miruna of Timebelle also very robbed in 2017
Haha Neither Takasa nor Timebelle were robbed
Yes re 2021 instead of that unoriginal load of noise which somehow won. And to think Netherlands and Spain got zero from public. Remo was OK but not a winner, glad he qualified. Takasa underrated, wonder what “pronouns” the attractive singer uses?
The Code is such an amazing winner by such a phenomenal act, they have shown us superb vocal skills
and it was about time switzerland won again so
and if we have lesser countries competing one year, also no problem, to only have one semi final or just one grand final show
i am looking forward to next years contest already, also what interval acts the swiss can offer us
May next year’s song be listenable and gimmick-free. They gave us the most underwhelming and jury-driven winner of the millennium.
Two months later and you can’t stop crying!!! lol
Eurofans.
Yeah yeah sure, if the winner came from Italy you would say the exact opposite, so many years on this blog and still so predictable…
He is not a real winner to me… He won only because of the juries that didn’t want Israel to win… (And they all admitted it afterwards, most of them gave Eden 0 points just because of the war! this contest is lost….) Shame! I prefer Croatia.. The televote winner. But I’m very happy that Eden got the fame now… She will be big, like she’s deserve! 🙂
i blanked Israel because the song was mediocre, and i don’t award mediocrity with a spot in my top 10 😉
have a chill pill and relax
The only place Eden will be ”big” is in your imagination. Eden was a Zionist puppet, a genoc*dal Barbie if you will – that’s all she’ll be remembered for to Europeans.
maybe to socalled “eurofans”…….
“They all” didn’t admit it because it didn’t happen they didn’t rank Israel because it was a basic ballad nothing more
Well, Switzerland has nothing to prove or lose at this point. As the host country, they are already in the final, so they can send whatever they want.
probably another ”it” like the nemo freak however they don’t wanna win back to back so likely something novelty
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i always support the UK and no other country 😉
such a solid country who never sends a bad entry
Gibraltar debut in esc when btw? i recommend american queen Anastacia for them
one more english native speaking country in the contest would be great
english the best language and most superior language!
Your parents are still crying that the condom broke…..
yes i know, what that person wrote was pretty disgusting
Nemo are very wonderful, eurovision’s very own bohemian rhapsody in The Code!!!!!
now at 35 million views, phenomenal those views! shows how popular this show is
glad i still watched the final anyway
and regardless of netherlands competing or not, i will be watching and that is a promise 😉
Why do you keep making a big deal about Nemo’s trophy breaking? He’s hardly the first and the EBU replaces it so there is no big deal beyond the moment.
And the trophy didn’t ‘shatter’ – it broke into two clean pieces in the exact same way Rybak’s trophy broke when he set his down on the stage. ‘Shatter’ means to break into many, many small pieces.
Sensation seeking is part of journalism. You reacting on it, means it’s working.