The results of the Eurovision 2025 semi-finals are out — and there are plenty of surprises in store. For instance, grand final winner JJ placed fifth in Semi-Final 2. Read on for more…
Eurovision 2025: Semi-Final Results
Semi-Final 1
1. 
Ukraine: Ziferblat – “Bird of Pray” (137 points)
2. 
Albania: Shkodra Elektronike – “Zjerm” (122)
3. 
Netherlands: Claude – “C’est La Vie” (121)
4. 
Sweden: KAJ – “Bara Bada Bastu” (118)
5. 
Estonia: Tommy Cash – “Espresso Macchiato” (113)
6. 
Iceland: VÆB – “RÓA” (97)
7. 
Poland: Justyna Steczkowska – “GAJA” (85)
8. 
Norway: Kyle Alessandro – “Lighter” (82)
9. 
Portugal: NAPA – “Deslocado” (56)
10. 
San Marino: Gabry Ponte – “Tutta L’Italia” (46)
11. 
Cyprus: Theo Evan – “Shh” (44)
12. 
Croatia: Marko Bosnjak – “Poison Cake” (28)
13. 
Slovenia: Klemen – “How Much Time Do We Have Left” (23)
13. 
Belgium: Red Sebastian – “Strobe Lights” (23)
15. 
Azerbaijan: Mamagama – “Run With U” (7)
Semi-Final 2
1. 
Israel: Yuval Raphael – “New Day Will Rise” (203 points)
2. 
Latvia: Tautumeitas – “Bur Man Laimi” (130)
3. 🇫🇮 Finland: Erika Vikman – “ICH KOMME” (115)
4. 🇬🇷 Greece: Klavdia – “Asteromáta” (112)
5. 
Austria: JJ – “Wasted Love” (104)
6. 🇱🇹 Lithuania: Katarsis – “Tavo Akys” (103)
7. 
Luxembourg: Laura Thorn – “La Poupée Monte Le Son” (62)
8. 
Denmark: Sissal – “Hallucination” (61)
9. 
Malta: Miriana Conte – “SERVING” (53)
10. 
Armenia: PARG – “SURVIVOR” (52)
11. 
Australia: Go-Jo – “Milkshake Man” (41)
12. 
Czechia: ADONXS – “Kiss Kiss Goodbye” (29)
13. 
Ireland: EMMY – “Laika Party” (28)
14. 
Serbia: Princ – “Mila” (28)
15. 
Georgia: Mariam Shengelia – “Freedom” (28)
16. 
Montenegro: Nina Žižić – “Dobrodošli” (12)
I love the fact that Sweden past only in forth place. But where was everybody’s common sense…. And it says a lot about the betters. They are hardcore fans who don’t have a clue… And I love that Ukraine passed in first in his SF. Hate that Israel is obviously manipulating televotes. That should be investigated
As a lifelong Eurovision fan, what happened this year within the Eurovision Song Contest organisation repulses me. I am Spanish, and my country’s broadcaster being threatened with economic sanctions because of delivering relevant data against an art-washing attempt has completely repulsed me. Martin Österdahl no longer appears in the arena nor speaks to the audience, and this is a first-time in many many years. The consequence is that the transparency of the EBU is completely undermined, but I am beginning to fear that dark clouds are (deliberately?) now really being cast upon a show that not only is a once-a-year… Read more »
Couldn’t agree more .
I hope Spain stays, their political stunt this year managed to deliver additional 12 points to Israel. If it weren’t for them, Israel would end up in the third place.
Latvia being second in the semi final is the biggest shock for me. Where did that come from?
Also cool to see that Sissal actually wasn’t even close to being a NQ.
These results were all over the place. It’s probably one of the most tense finals I’ve ever seen. Everything was so random and made no sense.
Didn’t the Odds tell us the the winner will be Sweden??…. (and by a large margin)
Odds told us the winner would be Croatia last year by even bigger margin
Sweden was never a winner
Poland only 7th, kinda shocked, I expected something like 4th after the televoting results in the final, but she finished lower than Blanka lol.
Blanka televote 8th… sorry Marcin
Blanka was third in her semi-final. Do you see what the article is about?
It’s funny how all the Trumpists here crying that the voting was rigged… so pathetic haha
I’m fuming because people raise Israeli disqualification, but may be happy with Azerbaijan. Why? Azerbaijan is just keeping a low profile now, noting the circumstances, but it will strike again. Have you forgotten what they’ve been doing to Armenians for years. At least Isreal does it openly and uses genuine marketing, not bribery unlike Azerbaijan.
People don’t really give a sht about what’s going on, they just enjoy hating juice
Oh and you know what people feel when they see or read the news ? Not you obviously
Azerbaijan is not interesting for antisemites.
Ukraine and Israel ruins the voting as usual, by voting on themselves throughout europe.
Changing the real outcome of the competition by removing a huge amount of the real public votes. Guess Israel and Ukraine are fake cheaters…. expected i guess
I don’t think you shoud call a country being invaded “a fake cheater”, it is at least sympathy vote and not money vote.
When you vote for yourself its cheating, Its not sympathy, its just Ukranians living across europe that vote for themselves, like Israel.
Yep you are morons for being so selfish to vote for yourself, how narcissist is that yak
Like millions of israelis live across Europe? More like Israel has consistently invited European Jews to live in Israel
Ukraine doesn’t pay for times square billboards and huge marketing campaigns unlike the other culprit. Nor does it murder 1000s of children
Crazy how Kaarija and Baby Lasagna won eurovision 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Israel’s vote rigging is like doping in sports. Should you really feel proud of yourself if you (nearly) win by cheating?
Do you have any receipts for this claim??… Otherwise it’s just your illusion
Biggest proof was the song was not good and on every app is ranked lower than 20, I live in the U.S. and I know people voting with SIM cards from other countries for Israel.
Sorry, NOT valid. It’s only hearsay
I think the use of Israeli bots won it for Israel. But that is only my personal opinion.
NOt Israeli bots, jews just live in all countries and they vote for themselves
Exactly like the exchage of points between the nordics, etc.
That’s could only be true for the uk and France. No big Jewish communities elsewhere in Europe
Lots of Israelis escaped Israel since October 2023. Most are in Portugal, Greece and Cyprus.
Lots of Jews in Azerbaijan and Iceland aren’t there
I almost forgot:
May the post-Eurovision Summer 2025… begin!
But this time, it’s not a depressing season. The results were a turn off, and JJ achieved them through compromise.
We need juries back in the semis! We all know why Ukraine and Israel won the semis and it wasn’t about the music
ukraine’s song was genuinely good but not winner material
I really enjoyed it but it should have been around 7th in semi
Only people from Ukraine like the Ukraine song
Hm … excuse me! I’m Scandinavian and I loved it!
LOL, no. I’m portuguese and I like Ukraine’s song.
It wouldn’t matter. Ukraine had 137p. They would still qualify.
Completely agree
Let’s point out that San Marino was just 2 points away from Cyprus and if Italy was in another Semi they wouldnt have qualified..
As much as I love and have voted for San Marino in the grand final, it’s obvious that this song resonated much better with the Italian public than the rest of Europe. I wonder if the facts that singing about Italy while representing San Marino and while we had the original Italy participating and a parody of Italy as well played a role.
And if Azerbaijan was not, Cyprus would have lost 12 points… impressive
Now with Austria 2026 I just hope for better hosts that 2015 who were awful
The hosts were just fine. Better than Graham Norton or the Italians. If I had to rank the hosts in the past few years, it would be: 1. Sweden, 2. Netherlands, 3. Switzerland, 4. Italy, 5. UK
Holy sh*t did I not read the comment properly. Sorry still early.
Hang on … Graham Norton showed his face once i Liverpool towards the end!
One too many times
This year’s voting was more problematic than I can remember. The juries seemed to me more political and inconsistent than ever (with the small exception that they thankfully helped the amazing Swiss entry). The televoting is being systematically manipulated by Israel and that doesn’t seem to end soon as they are determined to use the contest for their propaganda purposes. Ukraine keeps on getting pity votes, that also wrongly influence the final result, but at least these votes come from genuine feelings of solidarity. Also the semi final results were messy: this tells me that not many people vote during… Read more »
How are manipulated you trumpist?
I leave that to the plain common sense of non-brainwashed and informed individuals. Also, very rich of a Z!onist calling someone else a trumpist
As well as putting an END (!) – to the years long mutual 12 points between Greece and Cyprus……. right Thanos?
Of course I agree with what you are saying. Trust me I am always frustrated when this travesty happens every year and we are rightfully booed for that.
On that note though, as it was proven last night, not only we and Cyprus do it.
I really don’t know what will happen next year . The mindset of any credible artist would really think twice of entering a contest where their result is dictated on a political level . It’s become very much based on countries with people voting who are not even watching the show. Many voting for Israel have done so under instructions and never even seen Eurovision . Ukraine also is a problem , sympathy voting. Why would anyone put themselves through this? I’m happy enough with the eventual winner and sure most are but at what cost . If this continues… Read more »
We’ve had reports that the Slovenia, Irish, Icelandic and Spanish broadcasters want to start a discussion about Israel with the EBU, but I don’t know if they’re actually going to happen or if it’s just gonna get kicked down the line as They prepare for Eurovision 2026 with Austria. I’m telling you, something is going to blow up in their faces.
It’s easy- Ukraine and Israel with the biggest diasporas in Europe win the tele vote
Totally unfair for other countries
True, but we also can’t tell how much they would score without politics. There’s always a doubt.
There’s Jewish diaspora in the uk and France. Otherwise it’s negligible. Other excuse?
If this continues it puts the whole contest into disrepute. Very depressing to see this . The public voting is too open to be orchestrated, the juries less so , but there is still some neighbour voting .
We can live with 100% public votes, but we will get joke acts winning every year. So, OK, the public voice is being heard, but is this the direction we want the contest to go?
We don’t want it to go that way , the jury is the lesser of two evils
Definitely not – if so, I’ll stop watchung like I did in the 90s!
Juries saved Malta from total embarrassment, who woud have thought.
Malta was so wonderful at the NF. They went over the top in ESC, it wasn’t sexy, it was a turn off. They ruined the act.
This show needs urgently a revamp and also no renewal of the Moroccan oil sponsorship which is an Israeli company. Then EBU’s hands won’t be tied when it comes to removing Israel from the competition.
Oh Jesus, stop with the conspiracy. Moroccanoil has no say, the most they could do is withdraw and in that case they would be easily replaced by another company. These kinds of decisions are made by the Reference Group and there’s simply no support for the decision you propose. It is widely known that many broadcasters are strictly against it, with at least one Big 5 member stating that they will withdraw if Israel is banned. That’s why EBU’s hands are tied, not because of Moroccanoil which is completely irrelevant.
A few counters on that: 1. The EBU will have a discussion on the future inclusion of KAN anyhow. (This was recent news.) 2. A promised withdrawal or two (even from a member of the Big 5) over the issue doesn’t tie EBU’s hands. Technically, the decision is still theirs. 3. Broadcasters will have to make way for streaming services in the near future. That’ll be an interesting change. 4. While I agree that the Moroccanoil sponsor is practically irrelevant to the situation, it also evidently would not be savvy from a marketing perspective for such a sponsor to continue… Read more »
So… Jews and their money? Seriously?
I find it very hard to believe that Israel got 12 points from so many countries in semi 2 (including my country Ireland).
Something stinks in ESC and needs to be got rid of.
Indeed, it was like witnessing a Belarussian election…where the sitting government get 90% of the so called votes…
Even Irish Jury gave 7 points to Israel.
Maybe you live in a bubble.
“Something stinks in ESC and needs to be got rid of.”
This sounds like the Final Solution.
Slogan adopted as Final Solution, Intifada revolution.
Na zism and Isla mic Jihad go hand in hand.
Not doesnt and our comparison is both odious and utterly delirious. So anyone not happy with Israel’s participation over reported war crimes is a terrorist or nazi.
Jews live in all countries and they vote for themselves = Israel
Or maybe, rabid violent “protesters” who for some reason feel the need to confront a massacre survivor as if she’s personally responsible for her government’s actions, actually has an opposite effect and get people to rally around the entry
EBU should really consider: *Have all semis with Jury atleast 30-40% and Public 60-70% to balance and prevent the diaspora,bloc voting,vote buying and fan based system. *In Grand Final-I don’t how but jury votes should be thoroughly check , it should be diverse but equal regardless of genre(radio/audience friendly, novelty/wacky etc.) ESC 2025 is so worst, imagine seems the jury forgot or never saw that Poland, Iceland exist. And also Sweden, with their generics juries used to favoring them but now they send a novelty song and they are totally neglected and they got one 12pts. only. Juries were giving… Read more »
At least the jury saved Switzerland. Was it that bad or forgettable?
It’s so weird seeing Austria a winner below Latvia, just weird. But I’m happy, and I hope we’ll see more songs in our language next year! Thank you for voting! <3
For the first time ever, I am not going deep the morning after Eurovision to go see the reactions, videos, comments. Usually that’s how I spend the 3-4 days after the finals. I feel hurt this time, can’t explain it. Can’t watch them. I need some time off
Take care x
To be honest, it wasn’t a good year song wise from the beginning. Of course the fans are upset.
Bye
Latvia second in their semi, amazing! And Belgium wasn’t even close…
Why wouldn’t they ? Displaced Ukrainian population all over Europe voting for Ukraine
And Israel has a huge diaspora all over Europe
It’s really time to end the farce of the public vote which has ruined Eurovision actually
Both juries and public vote are problematic. There has to be a third way.
I can’t say for Ukraine because their diaspora is due to a d4mn w4r so it is not up to them that they left their country but Israel is a political vote. If what you so call diaspora was all over Europe they would also always qualify and yet ‘somehow’ they both did ‘amazing’ with the televote those two past editions huh, wonder what happened since then. There will always be political voting but at the very least before then there was a concensus for a winner, yesterday we saw how they could pay to almost win, had the jury… Read more »
SF1 – I had Azerbaijan as my dead-last prediction, and I was right. The studio version is pretty good, but the performance was just a bit too bland for me. Ukraine topping was a pleasant surprise for me, considering nearly everyone thought they would be a borderline NQ (I predicted around 7th). I’m pretty surprised that Belgium came 14th, when I thought they’d be 11th… and Croatia was 12th?! I… don’t get it. I guess that’s all I will say lol SF2 – So proud of Latvia and I’m glad people really enjoyed it! I think I’m even more surprised… Read more »
Y’all my blood is boiling right now I just emailed EBU to do something in Eurovision next year I told them to make it 50% jury and 50% televote I also told them this is getting unfair when other small countries like Malta and San Marino who thankfully qualified but barely was outclassed by some mediocre songs like Israel and Ukraine who BOUGHT the votes for Eurovision which isn’t fair… I SENT THEM AN EMAIL I WILL KEEP YOU GUYS UPDATED
Chill down, Karen. Go outside and touch some grass.
Honestly i side with Karen this time
That’s ok. At least you’re not sending emails everywhere while obviously being frustrated.
Well, Ukraine and Israel are one issue. Another issue is the fact Austria was only 5th in their semi! They were far from being the public favorites. But juries saved us from Estonia or Israel winning. All options are bad.
Haha bye
I see a lot of people asking for the juries back in the semis. The consequence of this is that the televote winner will most likely win the final. There needs to be as few jury bait songs in the final as possible so that a small number of songs can dominate the jury vote in the final. If the jury vote is spread in the final, the televote winner will tend to win the overall contest.
The other option is that the juries really need to start supporting the televote friendly songs – I saw that beginning to happen a little last night and was pleasantly surprised how many points Estonia got from the jury
Espresso Macchiato is the best ESC parody song so far, in my opinion. Artistically it was worth points from juries anyway (again in my opinion).
Estonia was the first ‘joke song’ in Eurovision with smart lyrics and rhymes.
Even though a but cringe on the outside, the song itself was intelligently created.
(I didn’t like the groupie stage invasion though).
Yes, this is the third year in a row the winner has neen decided by jury. I mean back then when there were juries in semifinal the winner was sometimes jury, sometimes voters, sometimes neither. We need to have more jury friendly songs in final, not less. That way their votes will be spread and preventing a runaway winner
I miss 2021 and the years before, when votes depended on the song, the singer, the staging and… THAT WAS IT.
We got a glimpse of that in 2023 even if Kaarija didn’t win unfortunately as I miss this year dearly because I understand why Ukraine get support and you can see it diminish between 2022 and this year so it’s not fully certain they could do well meanwhile that other country will certainly now keep spending money to get those votes…
interesting How Australia finished in 11th place with the same amount of points both in 2024 and 2025–41! Considering the mistakes made, I’m very surprised to Czechia didn’t finish lower than 12th. Serbia and Montenegro truly flopped on Thursday— with Serbia getting its worst result ever at 14th when they previously finished 11th and you bet your bottom dollar that Serbia gave all those 12 points to Montenegro to keep it from finishing with zero points. It’s not a big surprise that Georgia didn’t qualify and finished very low, but I am surprised that it didn’t finish that last, instead… Read more »
Bring back the juries too the semi finals as its all too political starting to turn a lot of people off, I’d Eurovision dying a slow death because of isreal and ukraine
So basically Zjerm won Semi 1. Beating heavy favourites KAJ and Tommy. Who would have thought.
Albanians are everywhere. While Swedes and Estonians aren’t. Easy peasy if you think one second about it.
The results this year stress more than ever why we need a jury because the common public no nothing and just vote for themselves… diaspora self votes need to stop.
I like both Ukraine’s and Israel’s songs, but neither of them were good enough to win the semi. So yes, I call diaspora voting, especially from Ukraine. I think many people voted for Israel without even watching the contest. The song was worthy of going to the final, but as a ballad not that much better than Greece or France.
Also when I was watching a youtube video yesterday, It showed me the vote for Israel ad about seven or eight times. I think buying youtube ads to win Eurovision is a bit unfair.
People not watching the ESC may affect ROTW vote which has a long voting window, but that’s just 12 points. The rest can only vote during the show, so some ads shown previously will have no impact unless someone makes a note that they need to vote at a certain time, which most people not watching ESC wouldn’t bother to do.
Israel’s result is simply based on sympathy vote, the simplest explanation is the most probable one. After all we saw the same effect with Stefania.
With Stefania, there was actually massive support for Ukraine from all of Europe. If you read any comments, Europe clearly doesn’t like Israel so it can’t be sympathy votes from anyone but their own group. There are also many people in Europe that normally don’t watch or vote, so it’s not just Rest Of The World voting..
Lol, comments on the internet are not representative of the general public opinion. If you look at the actual opinion polls, Europe is much more divided. And remember, you can’t vote against a song so it doesn’t matter how many people hate you as long as enough people support you.
I would argue that the majority of support for Israel is actually a direct result of that “hate” which mobilised the other side.
Needs to be banned
First item on the post-Eurovision agenda is to bring Juries back to the semi finals. Ukraine and Israel can’t just keep winning the televote every year.
How would that change this situation? If Israel can pull top 2 in final, they could pull top 10 in semifinal. And the final would then have the same results as it had yesterday.
Bit they would not win the semifinal
So, Latvia won SF2. I was absolutely sure from day 1 that Tautumeitas would enchant Europe with their beautiful harmonies, mesmerising coordination & movements and mystical chants for happiness. <3
Now that I think about it, Mans would have won this easily. That is the performance juries give 300+ in eurovision
Lol he is cancelled in Sweden now due to his ex-wife suing him for endangerment of their kids and drug use
Can someone do the math how the results would look if Israel wouldn’t be participating? I want to see how the real table would gave looked like without the political voting
Eliminate Ukraine too because that first place in sf1 was down to diaspora self votes
Not possible to know that.
Maybe people who liked Israel and melodious songs with a lovely feeling, would have voted for Italy, or maybe Portugal.
Or people who loved the emotions, would have voted for Greece instead.
But there were also ESC youtubers who had both Israel and Malta in their top, or Netherlands.
You can’t know what all those different people would have voted instead.
Take aways for this
Montenegro may withdraw again after this result
Who saw Georgia getting that many?
The points reflect how wide open the contest was
Juries are needed to balance diaspora. If Ukraine can win the semi with such a weak song and THEY can sweep the board with their burner phones, AI adverts and bots again then the EBU have to admit there’s an issue.
Who saw Latvia beating Finland and Estonia beating Sweden???
Poor Malta and Belgium
Georgia was musical wise one of the best, so it’s no surprise to me. I get why people don’t like it
Azerbaijan last?
That was and is a really catchy song!
In ‘audio-only’-modus and as a whole!
It really bombed live, unfortunately, the vocals were the weakest of the contest if we have to consider each entry’s vocal requirements.
Yeah, I had a feeling it was the last place finisher, either Azerbaijan or Slovenia, but it turned out the land of fire got drenched.
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I posted a laughing smiley (system turned it into an question mark). iow like your funny comment!
WIWI, can you at last update your CMS to one that supports UTF and emojis?
I really likes their video and the song itself, but the live performance wasn’t good.
I call Rigga Morris!
Can anyone believe that Europe would vote en masse for a genocidal country? Is it possible that a country like Spain, and we all know their opinion on this, would give 12 points to the public?
Yes I can believe it because remember: you can’t vote against a country, only for it. So all you need is a small fanatic voting bloc in each country in order to win the televote. The same way Poland wins the televote in Ireland, for instance. I doubt the Irish love that song, but the Polish diaspora does.
Maybe they should add an veto option : D
Please think through the big word you use. It is painfully misplaced.
And let’s respect each other’s choices and preferences in voting, whether they are pro or con to your opinion.
Thank you.
Which word is painfully out of place in your opinion? I hope it’s not genocidal, because you’d have to come from hell not to recognize reality.
It is diaspora though it’s what’s ruining the contest. It’s all the Eastern Europeans they are prolific cheats.
Well yes, I can believe that Europe would vote for a beautiful song, an amazing singer, for a survivor of the most awful terror attack on a music festival, that made it to the biggest stage in Europe. She is an INSPIRATION!!!!
I voted for her. Wonderful song and performance.
So impressed by LATVIA’s result in the semi final, coming 2nd! Such a great outcome!
I say Latvia came 1st, Israel doesn’t really count, so Latvia won the semi, congrats, they did put a spell on Europe, amazing performance.
Disgusting comment
This show needs a revamp BIG TIME.
It’s a shame that a contest that was originally about getting Western Europeans to interact with each other has become an exercise, first, in diaspora voting and, now, in wartime propaganda. I’d bet that more than half the people voting for Israhell don’t even watch ESC. They just want to infect what used to be a fun, positive competition with their evil agenda.
Amusing watching haters trying to figure out why the world doesn’t agree with them.
Haha true
This is why juries is needed back in semifinal. To balance. But also so that in final we have more jury songs that can share the love instead of just one song getting all the love
Are you really telling me that Belgium placed 14th, receiving over half of the points from San Marino?? What is going on here. It doesn’t make sense at the slightest
It makes totally sense, Belgia song was VERY strange.. even the song was called strobe lights… It’s worse than Fridge lights or USB-cable…
If you unmuted the song, then it may help clarifying it. You can’t quietly sing with one or two places slightly emphasises and expect more. Sorry – they other artists could be at least audible.
I’m genuinely shocked. I thought it would have finished 11th. But at least it didn’t get zero points, right?