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every contest, 1956 to now

70 contests, 53 countries, one cancelled year and a four-way tie nobody planned for. Every host city, winner, song and performer.

All-time leaderboards

Most wins

  1. Ireland 7
  2. Sweden 7
  3. France 5
  4. Luxembourg 5
  5. Netherlands 5
  6. United Kingdom 5
  7. Israel 4
  8. Austria 3

Most times hosting

Counts contests actually staged, so Bulgaria’s 2027 is not in here yet.

  1. United Kingdom 9
  2. Ireland 7
  3. Sweden 7
  4. Netherlands 5
  5. Luxembourg 4
  6. Austria 3
  7. Denmark 3
  8. France 3

The 20s

Eurovision Song Contests of the 2020s
Year Held in Winner Song
2027 71st Burgas Bulgaria Upcoming The 71st contest, hosted by Bulgaria for the first time.
2026 70th Vienna Austria · Wiener Stadthalle Bulgaria Dara “Bangaranga” Bulgaria's first win, and the first time it will host.
2025 69th Basel Switzerland · St. Jakobshalle Austria JJ “Wasted Love”
2024 68th Malmö Sweden · Malmö Arena Switzerland Nemo “The Code” Fell on the 50th anniversary of ABBA's win in Brighton.
2023 67th Liverpool United Kingdom · M&S Bank Arena Sweden Loreen “Tattoo” Staged by the United Kingdom on Ukraine's behalf, because Ukraine could not safely host. Loreen became the second performer to win twice.
2022 66th Turin Italy · Pala Alpitour Ukraine Kalush Orchestra “Stefania” Won on the largest public vote in the contest's history, months into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
2021 65th Rotterdam Netherlands · Rotterdam Ahoy Italy Måneskin “Zitti e buoni”
2020 Rotterdam Netherlands · Rotterdam Ahoy Cancelled Cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic — the only edition never held. Rotterdam kept the contest for the following year.

The 10s

Eurovision Song Contests of the 2010s
Year Held in Winner Song
2019 64th Tel Aviv Israel · Expo Tel Aviv Netherlands Duncan Laurence “Arcade” The Netherlands' first win in 44 years.
2018 63rd Lisbon Portugal · Altice Arena Israel Netta “Toy”
2017 62nd Kyiv Ukraine · International Exhibition Centre Portugal Salvador Sobral “Amar pelos dois” Portugal's first win, 53 years after its debut — the longest wait in the contest's history.
2016 61st Stockholm Sweden · Ericsson Globe Ukraine Jamala “1944” The jury and public votes were split and announced separately for the first time, which is why the winner changed on the final reveal.
2015 60th Vienna Austria · Wiener Stadthalle Sweden Måns Zelmerlöw “Heroes” The 60th contest, and the one Australia was invited to as a guest.
2014 59th Copenhagen Denmark · B&W Hallerne Austria Conchita Wurst “Rise Like a Phoenix”
2013 58th Malmö Sweden · Malmö Arena Denmark Emmelie de Forest “Only Teardrops”
2012 57th Baku Azerbaijan · Baku Crystal Hall Sweden Loreen “Euphoria”
2011 56th Düsseldorf Germany · Esprit Arena Azerbaijan Ell and Nikki “Running Scared”
2010 55th Oslo Norway · Telenor Arena Germany Lena “Satellite”

The 00s

Eurovision Song Contests of the 2000s
Year Held in Winner Song
2009 54th Moscow Russia · Olimpiysky Norway Alexander Rybak “Fairytale” Won with 387 points, the largest margin of victory under any scoring system used to that point.
2008 53rd Belgrade Serbia · Belgrade Arena Russia Dima Bilan “Believe” The first contest with two semi-finals, the format used ever since.
2007 52nd Helsinki Finland · Hartwall Arena Serbia Marija Šerifović “Molitva” Serbia won on its first entry as an independent country.
2006 51st Athens Greece · Olympic Indoor Hall Finland Lordi “Hard Rock Hallelujah” Finland's first win, at the 45th time of asking, by a hard rock band in latex monster masks.
2005 50th Kyiv Ukraine · Palace of Sports Greece Helena Paparizou “My Number One”
2004 49th Istanbul Turkey · Abdi İpekçi Arena Ukraine Ruslana “Wild Dances” The first contest with a semi-final, added to absorb a field that had grown past 30 countries.
2003 48th Riga Latvia · Skonto Hall Turkey Sertab Erener “Everyway That I Can”
2002 47th Tallinn Estonia · Saku Suurhall Latvia Marie N “I Wanna”
2001 46th Copenhagen Denmark · Parken Stadium Estonia Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL “Everybody” The largest audience ever to attend a Eurovision final, in a football stadium. Estonia became the first post-Soviet country to win.
2000 45th Stockholm Sweden · Globen Denmark Olsen Brothers “Fly on the Wings of Love”

The 90s

Eurovision Song Contests of the 1990s
Year Held in Winner Song
1999 44th Jerusalem Israel Sweden Charlotte Nilsson “Take Me to Your Heaven” The rule requiring entries to be sung in a national language was dropped for this contest.
1998 43rd Birmingham United Kingdom Israel Dana International “Diva”
1997 42nd Dublin Ireland United Kingdom Katrina and the Waves “Love Shine a Light” Televoting was trialled in five countries here, and has decided the contest ever since.
1996 41st Oslo Norway Ireland Eimear Quinn “The Voice”
1995 40th Dublin Ireland Norway Secret Garden “Nocturne” A winning song with 24 words in it.
1994 39th Dublin Ireland Ireland Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan “Rock 'n' Roll Kids” Ireland's third win in a row, still the only hat-trick in the contest's history. The interval act was the first performance of Riverdance.
1993 38th Millstreet Ireland Ireland Niamh Kavanagh “In Your Eyes” Held in a converted equestrian centre in a village of about 1,500 people.
1992 37th Malmö Sweden Ireland Linda Martin “Why Me?”
1991 36th Rome Italy Sweden Carola “Fångad av en stormvind”
1990 35th Zagreb Yugoslavia Italy Toto Cutugno “Insieme: 1992”

The 80s

Eurovision Song Contests of the 1980s
Year Held in Winner Song
1989 34th Lausanne Switzerland Yugoslavia Riva “Rock Me” Yugoslavia's only win, and the last contest it would host.
1988 33rd Dublin Ireland Switzerland Céline Dion “Ne partez pas sans moi” Dion won for Switzerland by a single point.
1987 32nd Brussels Belgium Ireland Johnny Logan “Hold Me Now” Logan became the only person to win twice as a performer.
1986 31st Bergen Norway Belgium Sandra Kim “J'aime la vie” Sandra Kim was 13. The contest introduced a minimum age of 16 after her win.
1985 30th Gothenburg Sweden Norway Bobbysocks “La det swinge”
1984 29th Luxembourg City Luxembourg Sweden Herreys “Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley”
1983 28th Munich Germany Luxembourg Corinne Hermès “Si la vie est cadeau”
1982 27th Harrogate United Kingdom Germany Nicole “Ein bißchen Frieden”
1981 26th Dublin Ireland United Kingdom Bucks Fizz “Making Your Mind Up”
1980 25th The Hague Netherlands Ireland Johnny Logan “What's Another Year” Israel declined to host a second year running, and the Netherlands stepped in.

The 70s

Eurovision Song Contests of the 1970s
Year Held in Winner Song
1979 24th Jerusalem Israel Israel Milk and Honey “Hallelujah”
1978 23rd Paris France Israel Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta “A-Ba-Ni-Bi”
1977 22nd London United Kingdom France Marie Myriam “L'oiseau et l'enfant”
1976 21st The Hague Netherlands United Kingdom Brotherhood of Man “Save Your Kisses for Me”
1975 20th Stockholm Sweden Netherlands Teach-In “Ding-a-dong” The douze-points scoring system used ever since was introduced here.
1974 19th Brighton United Kingdom Sweden ABBA “Waterloo” The most consequential win in the contest's history, and the one every "can Eurovision launch a career" argument still starts from.
1973 18th Luxembourg City Luxembourg Luxembourg Anne-Marie David “Tu te reconnaîtras”
1972 17th Edinburgh United Kingdom Luxembourg Vicky Leandros “Après toi”
1971 16th Dublin Ireland Monaco Séverine “Un banc, un arbre, une rue”
1970 15th Amsterdam Netherlands Ireland Dana “All Kinds of Everything” Several countries sat the contest out in protest at the previous year's unresolved tie.

The 60s

Eurovision Song Contests of the 1960s
Year Held in Winner Song
1969 14th Madrid Spain Four-way tie Four countries finished level on 18 points and there was no tie-break rule, so all four were declared winners: France (Frida Boccara, "Un jour, un enfant"), the Netherlands (Lenny Kuhr, "De troubadour"), Spain (Salomé, "Vivo cantando") and the United Kingdom (Lulu, "Boom Bang-a-Bang").
1968 13th London United Kingdom Spain Massiel “La, la, la”
1967 12th Vienna Austria United Kingdom Sandie Shaw “Puppet on a String”
1966 11th Luxembourg City Luxembourg Austria Udo Jürgens “Merci, Chérie”
1965 10th Naples Italy Luxembourg France Gall “Poupée de cire, poupée de son”
1964 9th Copenhagen Denmark Italy Gigliola Cinquetti “Non ho l'età”
1963 8th London United Kingdom Denmark Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann “Dansevise”
1962 7th Luxembourg City Luxembourg France Isabelle Aubret “Un premier amour”
1961 6th Cannes France Luxembourg Jean-Claude Pascal “Nous les amoureux”
1960 5th London United Kingdom France Jacqueline Boyer “Tom Pillibi”

The 50s

Eurovision Song Contests of the 1950s
Year Held in Winner Song
1959 4th Cannes France Netherlands Teddy Scholten “Een beetje”
1958 3rd Hilversum Netherlands France André Claveau “Dors, mon amour”
1957 2nd Frankfurt Germany Netherlands Corry Brokken “Net als toen”
1956 1st Lugano Switzerland Switzerland Lys Assia “Refrain” The first contest. Seven countries, two songs each, and only the winner was announced — no other placings were ever published.

About this record

Compiled from the public record of the contest. Years, hosts, winners, songs and performers are stated; participant counts and pre-2000 venues are left blank rather than estimated, and will be filled in as each is checked against a primary source. This is a different standard from the two-independent-sources bar that a 2027 confirmation has to clear, and it is held to a lower one — spotted an error? It is worth telling us about.

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