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The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will be the 69th edition and will be held at the St Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland following Nemo's win in Malmö the previous year. This is the first time since 1989 that the country will host the event.
The official dates are 13 and 15 May 2025 for the semifinals, with the grand final on 17 May.
Lugano (host of 1956) and Lausanne (host of 1989) opted not to submit bids citing infrastructure issues, while St. Gallen withdrew their own proposal. Bern (in a joint proposal with Nemo's hometown of Biel), Geneva and Zurich also submitted bids.
X countries will participate, with Montenegro making its return following its last appearance in 2022.
Format
Core Team
The core organizing team for the 2025 event was completed on 3 July 2024. Reto Peritz (SRF entertainment director and former Swiss Head of Delgation) and Moritz Stadler (head of operations for RTS) were named co-executive producers on 5 June 2024. Current Head of Delegation Yves Schifferle was named Head of Show and would be working closely with Head of Contest Christer Björkman and Head of Production Tobias Åberg, with Schifferle's HoD duties temporarily taken over by Daniel Meister. Other major members of the core team include Bernhard Spahni as Head of Project Management and Nadja Burkhardt-Tracol as Head of Event.
Presenters
Theme Art
Incidents
Participants
The following countries have confirmed their participation:
Albania- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Cyprus - Theo Evan - TBA
- Czechia
- Denmark - TBA 1 March 2025
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Israel
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Montenegro Welcome back!
- Norway
- Portugal
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Spain - TBA 1 Feburary 2025
- Sweden
- Switzerland (Host)
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
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The pots will be as follows, calculated by the EBU's voting providers Digame and based on voting patterns over the past 10 years:
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Pre-Allocations
Semi Final One
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Automatic Qualifiers
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Withdrawing/Uncertain
- Andorra - RTVA confirmed on 26 June 2024 that Andorra would not return for 2025.
- Belarus - BTRC remains suspended following their disqualification from the 2021 contest.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - On 8 July 2024, the Municipal Court in Sarajevo ordered BHRT to sell off real estate to pay off the broadcaster's long-standing debts to the EBU. On 17 July 2024, BHRT confirmed that Bosnia and Herzegovina would not return for 2025
- Bulgaria - BNT is contemplating a return for Bulgaria in 2025, with a decision to be made in September.
- Kosovo - On 12 June 2024, RTK submitted a request to the EBU for Kosovo to be invited to debut in 2025. However, it was announced on 7 August 2024 that the EBU turned down the request for political reasons.
- The Netherlands - Following the drama of the previous edition, the EBU gave AVROTROS until 1 November 2024 to make a decision as to whether or not the Netherlands would participate in 2025.
- Russia - C1R and VGTRK remain suspended following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
- Slovakia - RTVS confirmed that Slovakia would not return for 2025 citing financial issues.
- Türkiye - A Turkish return in 2025 is unlikely following comments by President Erdogan regarding the 2024 event and Nemo's subsequent victory, alleging the encouragement of "gender neutralization" and threatening "traditional family values".
Other Countries
Trivia
- This is the 6th consecutive contest not to be held in the capital city of the host country. However, in Switzerland there is no city recognized as its official capital (Zurich is considered the de facto capital).
- The contest has now been hosted in each of the 3 regions of Switzerland (the Italian region in 1956, the French region in 1989, and the German region in 2025).