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Eurovision records

Who has won most, who keeps coming last, how close it has ever been, and whether it matters when you sing. Every figure here is counted from the published results of all 70 contests, 1956 to 2026, and each one links to the night it happened.

Most wins

Of the 52 countries that have entered, 28 have won at least once.

All 52 countries
  1. 7 Ireland 1970, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996
  2. 7 Sweden 1974, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2012, 2015, 2023
  3. 5 France 1958, 1960, 1962, 1969, 1977
  4. 5 Luxembourg 1961, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1983
  5. 5 Netherlands 1957, 1959, 1969, 1975, 2019
  6. 5 United Kingdom 1967, 1969, 1976, 1981, 1997
  7. 4 Israel 1978, 1979, 1998, 2018
  8. 3 Austria 1966, 2014, 2025
  9. 3 Denmark 1963, 2000, 2013
  10. 3 Italy 1964, 1990, 2021
  11. 3 Norway 1985, 1995, 2009
  12. 3 Switzerland 1956, 1988, 2024
  13. 3 Ukraine 2004, 2016, 2022

Won it more than once, as a performer

Still waiting

The countries that have entered most often without ever winning, and the longest waits that did end.

Most contests, no win

  1. 42 Cyprus since 1981 · best 2nd
  2. 38 Malta since 1971 · best 2nd
  3. 37 Iceland since 1986 · best 2nd
  4. 31 Croatia since 1993 · best 2nd
  5. 30 Slovenia since 1993 · best 7th
  6. 28 Poland since 1994 · best 2nd
  7. 26 Lithuania since 1994 · best 6th
  8. 24 Romania since 1994 · best 3rd
  9. 22 Albania since 2004 · best 5th
  10. 21 North Macedonia since 1998 · best 7th

Longest wait for a first win

  1. 53 Portugal years: first sang in 1964, won in 2017 at the 49th try
  2. 45 Finland years: first sang in 1961, won in 2006 at the 40th try
  3. 31 Greece years: first sang in 1974, won in 2005 at the 26th try
  4. 30 Belgium years: first sang in 1956, won in 1986 at the 31st try
  5. 28 Turkey years: first sang in 1975, won in 2003 at the 25th try
  6. 28 Yugoslavia years: first sang in 1961, won in 1989 at the 24th try

Nul points

37 songs have left a final without a single point, in 21 different years. Since 2016 every country has given two sets of points, one from its jury and one from its viewers, so a song now has to be passed over by all of them.

Year Country Artist Song Sang
1962 Austria Eleonore Schwarz “Nur in der Wiener Luft” 4th of 16
1962 Belgium Fud Leclerc “Ton nom” 2nd of 16
1962 Netherlands De Spelbrekers “Katinka” 8th of 16
1962 Spain Víctor Balaguer “Llámame” 3rd of 16
1963 Finland Laila Halme “Muistojeni laulu” 7th of 16
1963 Netherlands Annie Palmen “Een speeldoos” 2nd of 16
1963 Norway Anita Thallaug “Solhverv” 5th of 16
1963 Sweden Monica Zetterlund “En gång i Stockholm” 13th of 16
1964 Germany Nora Nova “Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne” 9th of 16
1964 Portugal António Calvário “Oração” 11th of 16
1964 Switzerland Anita Traversi “I miei pensieri” 14th of 16
1964 Yugoslavia Sabahudin Kurt “Život je sklopio krug (Живот је склопио круг)” 13th of 16
1965 Belgium Lize Marke “Als het weer lente is” 8th of 18
1965 Finland Viktor Klimenko “Aurinko laskee länteen” 16th of 18
1965 Germany Ulla Wiesner “Paradies, wo bist du?” 5th of 18
1965 Spain Conchita Bautista “Qué bueno, qué bueno” 3rd of 18
1966 Italy Domenico Modugno “Dio, come ti amo” 14th of 18
1966 Monaco Téréza “Bien plus fort” 13th of 18
1967 Switzerland Géraldine “Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?” 6th of 17
1970 Luxembourg David Alexandre Winter “Je suis tombé du ciel” 8th of 12
1978 Norway Jahn Teigen “Mil etter mil” 2nd of 20
1981 Norway Finn Kalvik “Aldri i livet” 13th of 20
1982 Finland Kojo “Nuku pommiin” 6th of 18
1983 Spain Remedios Amaya “Quién maneja mi barca” 7th of 20
1983 Turkey Çetin Alp and the Short Wave “Opera” 6th of 20
1987 Turkey Seyyal Taner and Grup Lokomotif “Şarkım Sevgi Üstüne” 10th of 22
1988 Austria Wilfried “Lisa Mona Lisa” 12th of 21
1989 Iceland Daníel “Það sem enginn sér” 20th of 22
1991 Austria Thomas Forstner “Venedig im Regen” 6th of 22
1994 Lithuania Ovidijus Vyšniauskas “Lopšinė mylimai” 16th of 25
1997 Norway Tor Endresen “San Francisco” 3rd of 25
1997 Portugal Célia Lawson “Antes do adeus” 15th of 25
1998 Switzerland Gunvor “Lass ihn” 5th of 25
2003 United Kingdom Jemini “Cry Baby” 15th of 26
2015 Austria The Makemakes “I Am Yours” 14th of 27
2015 Germany Ann Sophie “Black Smoke” 17th of 27
2021 United Kingdom James Newman “Embers” 9th of 26

In a semi-final it has happened four times: Switzerland in 2004, Czech Republic in 2009, Romania in 2023, San Marino in 2023.

Last place most often

  1. 12 Norway 1963, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1990, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2012, 2024
  2. 9 Finland 1963, 1965, 1968, 1980, 1982, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2009
  3. 9 Germany 1964, 1965, 1974, 1995, 2005, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023
  4. 8 Belgium 1961, 1962, 1965, 1973, 1979, 1985, 1993, 2000
  5. 7 Austria 1957, 1961, 1962, 1979, 1984, 1988, 1991
  6. 6 United Kingdom 2003, 2008, 2010, 2019, 2021, 2026

Last place in the final, counting shared last places. Songs that went out in a semi-final are not counted.

Closest finishes, biggest wins

Points only compare within an era. The scale of 1 to 12 arrived in 1975, and since 2016 every country has given two sets of points, which is why the biggest totals are all recent.

The narrowest

  • 1969: no margin at all. Four songs tied on 18 points and all four were declared winners (France, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom).
  • 1991: Sweden and France tied on 146 points, and Sweden won on the tie-break.
  • 1968: Spain beat the United Kingdom by one point, 29 to 28.
  • 1988: Switzerland beat the United Kingdom by one point, 137 to 136.
  • 1963: Denmark beat Switzerland by two points, 42 to 40.
  • 2003: Turkey beat Belgium by two points, 167 to 165.
  • 1958: France beat Switzerland by three points, 27 to 24.

The widest

  • 2026: Bulgaria won by 173 points, 516 to 343 for Israel.
  • 2009: Norway won by 169 points, 387 to 218 for Iceland.
  • 2022: Ukraine won by 165 points, 631 to 466 for the United Kingdom.
  • 2017: Portugal won by 143 points, 758 to 615 for Bulgaria.
  • 2012: Sweden won by 113 points, 372 to 259 for Russia.
  • 2018: Israel won by 93 points, 529 to 436 for Cyprus.

The highest winning scores

Second place most often

  1. 16 United Kingdom 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2022
  2. 5 France 1957, 1976, 1990, 1991, 2021
  3. 4 Germany 1980, 1981, 1985, 1987
  4. 4 Ireland 1967, 1984, 1990, 1997
  5. 4 Israel 1982, 1983, 2025, 2026
  6. 4 Russia 2000, 2006, 2012, 2015
  7. 4 Spain 1971, 1973, 1979, 1995

Does it matter when you sing?

How many winners have sung from each place in the running order. Singing 17th has produced the most: seven. Nobody has ever won singing 2nd (in 70 contests) or 16th (in 64 contests).

  1. 1 3 1975, 1976, 1984
  2. 2 none in 70 contests
  3. 3 4 1958, 1969, 1971, 1994
  4. 4 1 2003
  5. 5 2 1959, 1995
  6. 6 1 1957
  7. 7 1 1969
  8. 8 5 1963, 1969, 1974, 1991, 1998
  9. 9 6 1956, 1962, 1966, 1988, 2023, 2025
  10. 10 3 1979, 2004, 2015
  11. 11 4 1967, 1973, 2014, 2017
  12. 12 5 1964, 1970, 2019, 2022, 2026
  13. 13 3 1960, 1985, 1986
  14. 14 5 1961, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2000
  15. 15 3 1965, 1968, 1999
  16. 16 none in 64 contests
  17. 17 7 1972, 1980, 1992, 1996, 2006, 2007, 2012
  18. 18 4 1977, 1978, 1982, 2013
  19. 19 3 1990, 2005, 2011
  20. 20 4 1983, 1987, 2001, 2009
  21. 21 2 2016, 2024
  22. 22 3 1989, 2010, 2018
  23. 23 1 2002
  24. 24 3 1997, 2008, 2021
  25. 25 none in 23 contests
  26. 26 none in 13 contests
  27. 27 none in 1 contest

Running order in the final. A late slot only exists in a big final, so fewer songs have ever sung there: the 27th place has been used once.

What the winners sang in

The language of all 73 winning songs. Countries had to sing in one of their own languages from 1966 to 1972 and again from 1977 to 1998; since 1999 the choice has been free.

  1. 35 English first in 1967, most recently in 2026
  2. 14 French first in 1956, most recently in 1988
  3. 3 Dutch 1957, 1959, 1969
  4. 3 Italian 1964, 1990, 2021
  5. 3 Hebrew 1978, 1979, 1998
  6. 2 German 1966, 1982
  7. 2 Spanish 1968, 1969
  8. 2 Swedish 1984, 1991
  9. 2 Norwegian 1985, 1995
  10. 1 Danish 1963
  11. 1 Serbo-Croatian 1989
  12. 1 English, Ukrainian 2004
  13. 1 Serbian 2007
  14. 1 English, Crimean Tatar 2016
  15. 1 Portuguese 2017
  16. 1 Ukrainian 2022

Hosts

The winner usually hosts the next contest, but not always: a few winners have passed, and the cancelled 2020 contest is not counted here.

Cities

  1. 6 Dublin 1971, 1981, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1997
  2. 4 London 1960, 1963, 1968, 1977
  3. 4 Luxembourg City 1962, 1966, 1973, 1984
  4. 3 Copenhagen 1964, 2001, 2014
  5. 3 Vienna 1967, 2015, 2026
  6. 3 Stockholm 1975, 2000, 2016
  7. 3 Malmö 1992, 2013, 2024

Countries

  1. 9 United Kingdom 1960, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1998, 2023
  2. 7 Ireland 1971, 1981, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997
  3. 7 Sweden 1975, 1985, 1992, 2000, 2013, 2016, 2024
  4. 5 Netherlands 1958, 1970, 1976, 1980, 2021
  5. 4 Luxembourg 1962, 1966, 1973, 1984
  6. 3 Austria 1967, 2015, 2026
  7. 3 Denmark 1964, 2001, 2014
  8. 3 France 1959, 1961, 1978
  9. 3 Germany 1957, 1983, 2011
  10. 3 Israel 1979, 1999, 2019
  11. 3 Italy 1965, 1991, 2022
  12. 3 Norway 1986, 1996, 2010
  13. 3 Switzerland 1956, 1989, 2025
  • The biggest contest: 43 countries, in 2008, 2011 and 2018.
  • The smallest: 10 countries, in 1957 and 1958.

Performers

Counted by the name on the scoreboard. Someone who sang once in a band and once alone is counted once under each, so a few well-travelled singers have more contests behind them than this shows.

All 1,782 artists

Most contests

  1. 4 Fud Leclerc Belgium · 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962
  2. 4 Peter, Sue and Marc Switzerland · 1971, 1976, 1979, 1981
  3. 4 Valentina Monetta San Marino · 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017
  4. 3 Anita Skorgan Norway · 1977, 1979, 1982
  5. 3 Anna Vissi Greece, Cyprus · 1980, 1982, 2006
  6. 3 Carola Häggkvist Sweden · 1983, 1991, 2006
  7. 3 Chiara Siracusa Malta · 1998, 2005, 2009
  8. 3 Corry Brokken Netherlands · 1956, 1957, 1958
  9. 3 Domenico Modugno Italy · 1958, 1959, 1966
  10. 3 Evridiki Cyprus · 1992, 1994, 2007
  11. 3 Hot Eyes Denmark · 1984, 1985, 1988
  12. 3 Ireen Sheer Luxembourg, Germany · 1974, 1978, 1985
  13. 3 Jahn Teigen Norway · 1978, 1982, 1983
  14. 3 Katja Ebstein Germany · 1970, 1971, 1980
  15. 3 Kirsti Sparboe Norway · 1965, 1967, 1969
  16. 3 Lys Assia Switzerland · 1956, 1957, 1958
  17. 3 Romuald Figuier Monaco, Luxembourg · 1964, 1969, 1974
  18. 3 Sandra Reemer Netherlands · 1972, 1976, 1979
  19. 3 Senhit San Marino · 2011, 2021, 2026
  20. 3 Tommy Seebach Denmark · 1979, 1981, 1993
  21. 3 Udo Jürgens Austria · 1964, 1965, 1966
  22. 3 Wind Germany · 1985, 1987, 1992
  23. 3 Zdob și Zdub Moldova · 2005, 2011, 2022

Youngest and oldest winners

Age on the night of the final, for winners billed under their own name whose date of birth is on record. Members of winning bands are not included. An age limit came in for 1990, after an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old sang in 1989.

Sang for more than one country

Quick answers

Which country has won Eurovision the most times?
Ireland and Sweden share the record with seven wins each, counted to 2026.
Has anyone won Eurovision more than once as a singer?
Two performers have: Johnny Logan (1980 and 1987) and Loreen (2012 and 2023).
How many songs have scored nul points in a Eurovision final?
37 songs, in 21 different finals, have finished without a single point. The first were in 1962 and the most recent in 2021.
Has a song performed second ever won Eurovision?
No. In 70 contests, the song performed second has never won.

Counted from the results as published by the European Broadcasting Union, to 2026. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.