A total of 38 countries will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel. The list remains identical to last year’s with the exception of one addition, which takes us from 37 acts to 38. That’s thanks to the return of Montenegro (and, in fact, the return of their Eurovision 2013 participant Nina Žižić. No countries have withdrawn and none are debuting.
The semi-final allocation draw will take place on Tuesday 28 January. It will allocate 32 of the participating countries to either Semi-Final 1 or Semi-Final 2. As ever, the Big 5 and the host country will receive automatic bids to the final.
Eurovision 2025: The 38 participating countries
🇦🇱 Albania – RTSH
🇦🇲 Armenia – AMPTV
🇦🇺 Australia – SBS
🇦🇹 Austria – ORF
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – İctimai
🇧🇪 Belgium – VRT
🇭🇷 Croatia – HRT
🇨🇾 Cyprus – CyBC
🇨🇿 Czechia – ČT
🇩🇰 Denmark – DR
🇪🇪 Estonia – ERR
🇫🇮 Finland – YLE
🇫🇷 France – FT
🇬🇪 Georgia – GPB
🇩🇪 Germany – ARD/NDR
🇬🇷 Greece – ERT
🇮🇸 Iceland – RÚV
🇮🇪 Ireland – RTÉ
🇮🇱 Israel – Kan
🇮🇹 Italy – RAI
🇱🇻 Latvia – LTV
🇱🇹 Lithuania – LRT
🇱🇺 Luxembourg – RTL
🇲🇹 Malta – PBS
🇲🇩 Moldova – TRM
🇲🇪 Montenegro – RTCG
🇳🇱 Netherlands – AVROTROS
🇳🇴 Norway – NRK
🇵🇱 Poland – TVP
🇵🇹 Portugal – RTP
🇸🇲 San Marino – SMRTV
🇷🇸 Serbia – RTS
🇸🇮 Slovenia – RTVSLO
🇪🇸 Spain – RTVE
🇸🇪 Sweden – SVT
🇨🇭 Switzerland – SRG SSR
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Suspilne
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – BBC
So, what does your crystal ball tell you about the upcoming contest? If you read the tea leaves and go with your gut, who is winning this thing? Let us know your reasoning down below.
Ban Easyjet
Time will tell what will happen with Kan
I Hope the participants behave like adults and not like the Irish singer last year
The child murders are still in! In sane!
I saw Poli interview in Amsterdam, and I agree with her, let the musicians really play live music on the Eurovision stage please thank you.
A musical contest without live music is something so paradoxal, it needs to change.
I mean Eurovision young musicians exists, and they play live music on stage, so it’s not something impossible to do, so why not?
I am not so concerned about how many countries participate. I just want to see singers actually singing live and not dance acts singing just a little bit to backing tracks.
Did anyone else notice Tommy Cash’s song is about stressful working environments and the use of coffee as coping mechanism?
Tommy Cash didn’t joke when he said he came for revenge.
Looking forward to the new ESC season.
Ugh the savages are once again allowed in?
Yeah, money talks…
Now that we have the list of participants next step in 5 days Benidorm Fest songs, in 7 days Luxembourg NF songs, in 9 days Fik #63 Final, we are spoiled just before Christmas!
Slovenia is revealing their artists today for EMA.
Ho ho ho! That’s just before Christmas.
Shame to see no Romania or North .
Macedonia.
The worst winner since 2011
Ich bin nicht sicher ob Nordmazedonien immer noch Interesse daran hat, teil des Eurovision Song Contest zu sein. Aus einigen Kommentaren, die ich in einigen Medien gelesen habe, habe ich den Eindruck gewonnen, dass entweder die Künstler oder die Regierung (zu finanzieren) kein besonderes Interesse an einer Teilnehme haben. Ich denke das dies etwas mit den konstant niedrigen Platzierungen zu tun hat. Sowohl die Künstler als auch die Menschen sind müde und von Enttäuschungen überwältigt und es herrscht das Gefühl, dass es sich nicht lohnt.
i see some people are still mad at Isreal competing if you dont like that no one is forcing you to watch
And no-one is forcing the other 37 countries to compete, yet all of them have come back knowing Israel will be there.
yeah so dont whine then they are competing so are Isreal if people dont like it dont watch its as simple as that
If you’re going to support a g3n0cidal state with a war criminal as their prime minister, you should at least learn how to spell their name right.
its not a g3n0cidal state as you put it its a democratic state palestine is a state run by terrorists
Tell that to Amnesty International.
yeah the same people who think Muslims like gay people no thanks
U could also learn to spell the word “genocidal”
A country whos leader is under a worldwide arrestorder for warcrimes should not be participating
A warrant by a biased prosecutor means nothing. And is not a conviction.
ICC, ICJ, UN all became a joke, especially since Ir4n became head of the ‘Human Rights’ Department. Lol
So many ignorant people on wiwi.
I am looking forward to all 38 songs.
Well unlike you i dont feel like rooting for a country that has ki11ed over 100.000 palestinians in under a year
Malta artists/songs are announced
and i am sooooooooo happy, Kantera is competing in MESC!!!!!!!
i love his style so much, he was my fave in Muzika Muzika this year, with the ratatouille vibe in L-Ghannej with the legendary tony camilleri
We’ve never had 38 countries competing at Eurovision before, although it would’ve been 38 in the 2006 contest had Serbia and Montenegro not withdrawn at the last minute due to a controversy in their national final.
There have been more than 38, though, as recently as 2022.
True, we did breach the 40 country mark in several past contests, but 38 is a number we never had as a total ever*
*apart from 2006 that became 37 when Serbia and Montenegro withdrew like I mentioned earlier.
What is so special bout 38? (No pun intended).
Nothing really, just an interesting observation. Since Eurovision expanded into multiple nights, we had:
36 (2004)
37 (2006, 2014, 2023, 2024)
39 (2005, 2010, 2013, 2021)
40 (2015,2022)
41 (2019,
2020)42 (2007, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017)
43 (2008, 2011, 2018)
As you can see, we’ve never had a contest with 38 countries total, or at least stick with it. May I remind you all that 2006 was originally going to be 38 countries, but Serbia and Montenegro dropped out.
Ooh, nice excerpt too! Dobro dobro!
A country and a song full of PRIDE, and epic and prophetic, please!
Seeing the participating countries list, we already know the plans for 2025 for almost all the participating countries and we’re only in December, it’s cool, only Australia, Austria, Azerbaidjan, Georgia, France remain a bit blurring…if by chance anybody has infos, I’ll take it. I just know that Australia will probably go with an internal selection but nothing sure yet, for France we will get infos at the end of the month but so far we know nothing…last year we already got everything since one month, the artist AND the song, but this year not the case… Austria, Azerbaidjan and Georgia… Read more »
Apparently France will announce their news at the end of the year or beginning of January 2025 and Austria are having an internal selection.
Ok thank you!
Australia is not in Europe
Israel!!! <3
But Monaco, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia I believed in you….sad.
I had a little hope for Turkey too but a very small…
Still 38 countries is not bad, still one more than the last edition, finally all the drama 2024 has not affected the participation list at all as many predicted but quite the opposite.
Also I would have loved see an inviting country to spice up the thing, like Australia, I know the Eurovision purists don’t like that too much but Australia was a great addition so why not another one…
Sad that my country (Hungary) is not here. 🙁
Hopefully we will back sometime together with Romania, North Macedonia, Bosnia, Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria etc.
Same here, fingers crossed that one day they’d all return!
I miss Hungary so bad, come back Magyarország 🙁
After all the toxicity of this year, there’s more countries competing in 2025. The EBU’s incompetence and mishandling of events in Malmö has led to success. They’re failing upwards.
Who let a certain country charged with War Crimes into the contest?
Money, money, money, must be funny…
Some countries get charged with war crimes while others get away with murder…. but a lot of people are OK with that double standard!
Again the same toxicity. Israel an an history on ESC . People in Israel love ESC . Unfortunately they are at war . Look at all the countries surrounding Israel . Imagine the Uk France Portugal or Spain had frontiers with Syria Iran and with proxies Countries…. Just imagine . I’m not defending the leader. I’m defending the right if Osrael to be A free country when every other country in the region just want the end of Israel
Israel occupied Lebanon from 1982-2000 then tried invading them this year. They’ve occupied Palestine since 1948 and Syria’s Golan Heights since 1967. They’ve bombed 5 countries since last year and have launched 10 times more missiles than other groups. Their prime minister and war minister have been charged as war criminals. They are not the victim here.
They just happen to win the war after wars that the surrounding countries have started against them already since 1948. I wish my country would be as blessed to win the war.
I am looking forward to their entry for 2025.
I’m looking forward to the deserved boos.
16 each semi, very good
nice competitive semi’s!
So basically, every entrant will get through. Not that competitive.
Damn , I was hoping for either Romania, Bulgaria or Monaco to return. Of course it didn’t happen…
After all the whining after last edition that so many wouldn’t return and now there are even more!!! lol
It’s almost as if all the outrage was: “wait for it” — performative.
What did NMacedonia and Romania say?
They said they don’t want to participate this year.