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Eurovision 2025: The allocation pots for the Semi-Final draw!

The Semi-Final Allocation Draw for Eurovision 2025, will take place tomorrow January 28 at 12:30 CET live from Basel, alongside a ceremony which sees the Host City insignia pass from previous hosts Malmö, to current host Basel.

The Allocation Draw will determine whether countries participate in the First Semi-Final (May 13) or the Second Semi-Final (May 14). Whether a country will perform in the first or the second half of the said semi-final, is also allocated randomly.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw: How does it work?

Switzerland as the Host Country and reigning champion respectively, along with the other 6 members of the so-called ‘Big 6’ participating countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) do not compete in the Semi-Finals, but their domestic audiences do get to vote in one of them… so before the competing countries are allocated a place in a Semi-Final, it will be randomly determined which of the Semi-Finals the Big 6 will each be allowed to vote on.

The next part of the draw will determine in which Semi-Final and in which half of the respective Semi-Final the other 31 participating countries will perform in.

Semi-Final allocation Draw

The 31 countries that will compete in the semi-finals, have been allocated to five pots, according to their previous voting records, as calculated by official Eurovision televote partner, Digame.

Pot 1 

  • Belgium
  • Czechia
  • Estonia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Latvia
  • Netherlands

Pot 2

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Israel
  • Poland
  • Ukraine

Pot 3

  • Albania
  • Austria
  • Croatia
  • Montenegro
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia

Pot 4

  • Cyprus
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Malta
  • Portugal
  • San Marino

Pot 5

  • Australia
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Iceland
  • Norway
  • Sweden

 

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Drawing countries from different pots helps to reduce the chance of so-called neighbourly voting and increases suspense in the Semi-Finals. You can get a good idea of how it will all work by watching the 2025 Allocation Draw on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, in Basel!

Source: Eurovision.tv

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