Switzerland’s search for its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 on home soil commences today.
The submission window for the Swiss selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 opens today and will remain open until 22:00 CEST on August 22. Artists, producers, songwriters and lyricists are all invited to submit entries, full rules for the selection can be found in all the official languages of Switzerland and in English here.
Once the submission window closes, several audition rounds will be held to determine the Swiss entry for Eurovision 2025. A Swiss audience jury, an international audience jury and an international expert jury will decide the results of each round. The international expert jury will be comprised of 25 people who have previously served as members of their countries’ national juries during Eurovision.
The winning song and act will be revealed at the beginning of 2025. As the host nation of Eurovision 2025, Switzerland will automatically qualify for the Grand Final.
Nemo won the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 for Switzerland with “The Code”. This was Switzerland’s third victory in the contest’s history, following Lys Assia in 1956 and Céline Dion in 1988.
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Switzerland hosted the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, a contest that they also won. Lys Assia won the first contest with the song “Refrain”. It wasn’t until 1988 that Switzerland would win the contest again. At the contest in Dublin, it was Celine Dion with “Ne partez pas sans moi” who beat the United Kingdom to victory by just 1 point. Switzerland won for a third time in 2024 represented by Nemo with “The Code”.
