The final selection show of the season came courtesy of Portugal. And now, a new Eurovision star has emerged at the grand final of Festival da Canção 2025.
There were 12 acts still in the running for the trip to Basel. After all the votes were counted, hosts Filomena Cautela and Vasco Palmeirim revealed that it was NAPA who had secured the ticket. The band will perform “Deslocado” at Eurovision in May.
NAPA tied for first place with Diana Vilarinho. However, since the group earned more votes from the public, they were crowned the winners.
Festival da Canção 2025: Grand final results
The winner was determined by a 50:50 split between seven regional juries and the public voting.
Jury votes
- Diana Vilarinho – 12 points
- Jéssica Pina – 10 points
- Fernando Daniel – 8 points
- Napa – 7 points
- Margarida Campelo – 6 points
- JOSH – 5 points
- Emmy Curl – 4 points
- Marco Rodrigues – 3 points
- Bombazine – 2 points
- Peculiar – 1 point
- Henka – 0 points
- Bluay – 0 points
Public votes
- Henka – 12 points
- Napa – 10 points
- Fernando Daniel – 8 points
- JOSH – 7 points
- Bombazine – 6 points
- Diana Vilarinho – 5 points
- Marco Rodrigues – 4 points
- Peculiar – 3 points
- Jéssica Pina – 2 points
- Bluay – 1 point
- Margarida Campelo – 0 points
- Emmy Curl – 0 points
Overall results
- Napa – 17 points
- Diana Vilarinho – 17 points
- Fernando Daniel – 16 points
- Henka – 12 points
- JOSH – 12 points
- Jéssica Pina – 12 points
- Bombazine – 8 points
- Marco Rodrigues – 7 points
- Margarida Campelo – 6 points
- Peculiar – 4 points
- Emmy Curl – 4 points
- Bluay – 1 point
What do you think of Festival da Canção 2025? Does Portugal have a strong option for Eurovision 2025? Share all your thoughts in the comments below.
Dreadful choice but Portugal has such dreary songs these last few years. No modern songs and trying to replicate Salvador.
Oof, the public favourite got 0 points from the jury? When was the last time it happened?
I just don’t know how Diana Vilarinho won the juri vote
Let’s be brief as I am in mourning…NQ, last in its semi with likely zero points. JOSH and Fernando you tried but Portugal was at siesta on Saturday night. Most disappointing result of the season so far. Need a Post Morten from Portuguese fans to explain this outcome when and if the shock subsides.
Ive already explained, if you want, scroll this forum
I am in shock that my favorite Josh did’nt win in Portugal. I don’t like the winning song and I don’t vote for them in may. I ask the same as the ladies who is representing UK – What the hell just happen –
i am disgusted by the comments of those who cry scandal and say that “Deslocado” is a boring and horrible song. The lyrics have an important meaning, They represent a current difficulty belonging to all of us and personally I think it was among the best songs, musically speaking, that portugal had. You often dwell on the appearance, you want the catchy song with the fun rhythm or songs that wink at the wow effect. Is music dead for you? You said the same about Lucio Corsi last month. I am disgusted. I love you Portugal!
In the end, the competition doesn’t matter. You always yell “NQ! NQ! NQ!” at everyone when it would cost you nothing to stop for a second and appreciate some quality music.
Man, I dont know enough english vocabulary to say how much right you are!
it’s not a “horrible song”, but i think it fails to convey the message of the lyrics. and i’m fluent in portuguese…
Boring as hell.. sure NQ.
I’m sure ‘Deslocado’ will rise in my ranking when listening to it more, it’s a beautiful authentic song, but it didn’t give me the instant impact that ‘Grito’ and ‘Saudade, Saudade’ gave me, which is needed at Eurovision. There were also just way better options this year.
This was an absolutely obvious choice. As a context: In Portugal, there is the main part, the metropolis, which is the part located on the mainland, and there are also the islands, which are poorer areas with fewer opportunities. These guys are from one of these islands, Madeira (the island where Cristiano Ronaldo was born), but they came to live here. This song talks about saying goodbye to home, goodbye to the island. This moved us and, above all, moved the displaced students. In fact, DESLOCADO means displaced. Think about that, and go check the lyrics. I am sure it… Read more »
If you try to put the message into your heads, maybe our chances grow up, dont yall think?
Woke up to this. After Kaj and tutta l’italia…
Seriously? Having Henka, Josh and Diana in the selection?
Well even Medo wich I didn’t like and was so afraid is going to win. ..
But this song? After Conan Osiris and Sobral?
Congratulations, NQ !
(Speachless)
Go watch the lyrics, fellas! As a portuguese guy, I can say this was a pretty obvious song for us. I am gonna explain: There are the main Portugal, and there are the islands. These guys are from one of these islands (Madeira). This song is about saying goodbye to your home and going to the big city. This message have made us emotional, principally the displaced students. So, I think this was our best choice.
90% of the audience doesn’t speak Portugese.. so what’s left is an utterly boring song where nobody grabs his phone for…
Let’s talk about Cha Cha Cha, Stefania, Amar pelos dois, Zitti e Buoni… Language is not a barrier. And this is not boring, man. Give the song an oppurtunity, it deserves
The jury giving Henka 0 points while she gave an excellent performance and while she was the public’s fave shows that they’re totally out of touch and that the scoring system doesn’t work. Josh also deserved way better.
The jury didn’t really give 0 points to Henka.
The conversion of the final jury points into 0 to 12 points made it look like she didn’t receive points when in fact she did receive.
If you watched the final, you would understand it.
Exactly!
It doesn’t matter, the scoring system is what it is and they ranked her second to last or last knowing that wouldn’t give her any points.
Portugal what did you do???
Portugal failed to pick a masterpiece in Josh who could have streamlined and got even better. Watched the whole show and jury scores were seriously all over the place and this was expressed by the presenters reactions too totally showing a lack of consistent interpretation and seemed like total personal choices or something rather than basing on objective criteria. Who knows but was surprising.
This is a mess…
This is sweet and chilled out. The vocalist gives a high quality performance as well. This is not a bad choice for Portugal
Other than Cyprus, Semi final 1 is basically complete. Here is my proposed running order for the first half:
1. Iceland
2. Slovenia
3. Ukraine
4. Estonia
5. Sweden
6. Portugal
7. Poland
Tommy and Kaj are so eating all the rest alive.
from Top 5 in the odds to somewhere in the 30s in less than a week…tell me how these Portuguese juries have ZERO clue about Eurovision…I’m pretty sure 2/3s of them have never seen it in the last 5 years.
Ohhh Fernando 🙁
He was so furious when he lost. I died laughing
And that’s a wrap for the national finals this year. We have a few more songs left to drop to completely the Eurovision 2025 line up, but I would like to present an update on the language distribution statistics for the 32 songs so far. National Language : Al ban ia, Australia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom (19) English (where it’s not the official language): Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Norway, Slovenia (9) Bi-Lingual (English + other national language): Poland, Ukraine (2) Bi-lingual (English… Read more »
Since 2021, we’ve had at least one Nordic language at Eurovision, but this year is the first time we’ve had multiple Nordic languages at Eurovision since 1998!
And German too !
Perhaps one of the best interval acts of National Final season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YNbxMJbul0
Nemo should watch
Last NF of the season, last Super Saturday…, it was an interesting season and overall very surprising, with many unexpected outcomes.
I’m disappointed with the results, but I’ll support this entry regardless of the Eurovision bubble’s opinions. The conversion of the jury points into 0-12 points made look like some songs were not good, when in fact they received quite an interesting amount of points. When we look at it from outside, it seems that they were “not good”, but they were. In Festival da Canção 2025, specifically, there were several outstanding songs – at least 5 – that could do some damages in ESC, and that also reflected the difficulties of the juries in giving points, and that I can… Read more »
Henka’s was tacky and childish music, you can’t really ask a jury to vote for that
I agree, vocals and staging was not IT!
I hope they got edged out in the semi since Portugal usually got a jury bait song with many jury points to be in top 10 in the final, which is annoying as hell.
Portuguese people don’t feel represented by this song. Maybe the worst song of the twelve
Another good song, extremely rare considering 2025 is shaping up to be the worst year since 2024.
Salty KAJ fanboys are downvoting me lol.
I absolutely love this, it’s a beautiful song, vocals are sublime. A mixture of yacht rock and beatles.
Absolutely shocked
WTF?
Why did the jury put Fernando and Josh so low?!
Josh beacause he’s queer?! Fernado because he’s lyrics suck?
Sad (for Josh) but true.
What the Hell Just Happened?
Madeira island (union of Madeira jury and Madeira public) chose the winner instead of all Portugal. One of Portugal worst songs ever, for Eurovision. I’m done.?
Hey, not true, they only vote once. Jury vote is 6/6
Not true fella.
There are elements of Salvador Sobral in the lead vocalists style and dare i say elements of the Beatles in parts of the musical style. I was thinking Now And Then elements. I don’t dislike it and will listen again.
Deserved, the song is good. You guys are so annoying lol
Someone needs their NAPA adjusting whoever voted for this SH**
Yet again, internal selections are carrying Eurovision for the second time in a row, since the televote-only semis were introduced in Eurovision.
this is the national jury that got ‘medo de sentir’ selected over ‘passe-partout’ in 2020 and got black mamba in over neev in 2021… they have to be up there as one of the most out of touch national juries ever. i listened to NAPA first, and i did really enjoy it to be fair, but compared to medo, josh and henka….. just really unusual and poor choice.
Medo de sentir would have kept Portugal behind in the semi finals had the 2020 contest not been canceled, and i am afraid Portugal may be vulnerable this year. I’m not calling a definite NQ, but it’s edging into that territory.
Medo de sentir was an absolute snoozefest.
And the winner is a bop and a hit you say?!
Oh no no no. It’s game over for Portugal specially with 100% televote.
Presumably that Cyprus will have a good song, I think it’s safe to say that from the First Semi Final, Portugal and Slovenia are locked non-qualifiers. I think Belgium and Azerbaijan will probably also stay in the Semi. And as of a shock to many, based on previous years, I think Poland will be a shock non-qualifier.
I disagree about Poland but I agree about the rest.
you tell me poison cake will qualify? i’m suing
Oh, yes. I have no doubt. Croatia is definitely qualifying. And especially in televote only Semi. Plus, Poison cake is not a bad song at all, and Marko will do absolutely great stage performance.
I have very low expectations for Cyprus. I’m not so sure about Slovenia, because the upside down performance is actually memorable, and Belgium can be hit or miss – it will depend on the staging, and I’m personally a big fan of the song. Portugal is going to finish dead last and Azerbaijan doesn’t have many chances either. If you ask me I think that Iceland and Croatia are also in trouble and I don’t feel confident about San Marino either although I like the song.
azerbaijan will surprise many people
I reserve always my final predictions for the rehearsals but the track isn’t promising and what I’m mostly missing from the Azeri band is the charisma that could potentially make even a mediocre song qualify.
I like Azerbaijan’s song! I just don’t think it’s impactful, and I think nobody will remember it. I forget sometimes about it haha
Belgium and Slovenia? Seriously? Belgium feels like a surefire qualifier. Meanwhile, if Slovenia has the right staging and he gets across the quietly affecting emotion of the song (the latter of which we haven’t seen much in this year’s entries), I think Slovenia will give Michael Schulte/ Ieva Zasimauskaite vibes and surprise everyone with a qualification.
I still think there is a world where a song that’s emotional like Slovenia can qualify…it reminds me of Lithuania 2018…keep in mind, with Portugal picking this mid tempo band song, Slovenia really is the ONLY ballad in Semi 1
I think Slovenia will qualify. I’m not a fan of the song but I wouldn’t skip the live performance and I find it relatable and memorable. I think that’s a good sign.
NAPA?! Well, that was unexpected. I guess nobody got their way tonight in Portugal.
Except Madeira island.?
I was thinking more of the fans who had other favorites in this national final and didn’t put Napa on their radar. I certainly didn’t. In fact, I didn’t remember where I placed their song in my ranking, until I looked it up and realized it was 16th place! That’s not good.
Boa noite a tutti
what? Portugal was running to their 5th qualification in a row and chose this? I don´t know what happened…I voted for Portugal in 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 but i cannot vote for this song :/
by the way the song its not bad, but there were better options, and without jury in the semi I can´t see this qualifying.. Slovenia and Latvia had similar entries and flopped badly unfortunately no final for Portugal this year :/
I passed from shock to laughing about how ridiculous this is… Such a great edition musically and such a horrible outcome… The concept has to change…
“Deslocado” was the only song from this FdC that was doing numbers on Spotify in Portugal as well
That’s irrelevant, we can’t vote for ourselves. And now, no One else Will.
My personal favourite song won.
So beautiful and high quality.
May be too local tho idk
But Portugal?! Talented guys, great musicians, but…
First time I saw a NF where all the 12pts went to different artists, it’s cool for the artists at least
Portugal had two options; Fernando or Josh and the worst choice is made. Somebody explain it to me. We talk about it from the jury with random votes?
Fernando is a cheesy artist in Portugal. Josh’s performance did not work…
The Madeira region jury gave 12 points to the Madeira contestant (Napa) biasing the results. Then the conversion system to 1-12 solidified the unfairness making some of the contestants impossible to win.
Don’t forget: public votes for napa:10 from? Madeira… Regionalism wins.
I’ve already forgotten it and I’ve only just listened to it.
This is staying in the semis
Realistically, I don’t think this stands a chance of qualification… but I do like it. Quality act, quality production, quality instrumentation played by actual humans, nice ambience…
It’s nice but would you go back to listen to it again? I don’t think I would, and most of Europe will probably agree. This is so far the safest NQ prediction of the year for me.
If it was performed with actual LIVE instruments, or accompanied by an orchestra I would… sadly that won’t happen. Imagine added string section.
Only if that was the case Jonas we’d have a completely different Eurovision song contest. I miss certain things from the 90s, and the live orchestras are probably the biggest of them, but I think music industry and mostly TV has changed significantly since, and the contest was already lagging behind in the 90s.
To sum up how we all feel: “What the hell is this bs?”
Aw, think of Serhat… then rethink
what the hell juuuuust haaaaappened?
I love how the usual ESC top videos aren’t released with Portugal yet because NO ONE SAW THIS COMING UGHHHH
I don’t even remember the winner
I went to listen to it and literally almost fell asleep by the first listen. It’s honestly impressive, I’ve never experienced this in the past.