🇧🇬Eurovision 2027 — Bulgaria Hosts

RTSH confirmed its intention to compete at the start of August 2026 and will use Festivali i Këngës for a 65th edition. Song submissions OPENED on 22 September 2026 and close on 27 September; a selection committee then shortlists the field for a final in December 2026. The exact final dates and format have not been published.

SBS confirmed on 1 September 2026 that Australia will compete in Burgas, its 12th participation. The broadcaster framed the decision around audience reach rather than result, citing 3.27 million Australian viewers in 2026 and Delta Goodrem's fourth place in Vienna. No selection format has been announced: Australia Decides ran as a national final from 2019 to 2022 and SBS has selected internally since, but nothing has been said about 2027 either way. Australia remains the only broadcaster ever admitted to the contest by Reference Group invitation (2015) rather than through full EBU membership.

ORF, fresh from hosting the 2026 contest in Vienna, has opted for an internal selection. Peter Schreiber and Cesár Sampson (Austria 2018) are heading the search. The artist is expected to be announced in late 2026 or early 2027, with the song revealed later.

VRT confirmed on 23 September 2026 that Belgium will compete in Burgas, after asking the EBU for an extension past the 15 September deadline. It had previously indicated participation was unlikely, having pressed for a direct vote of member broadcasters on Israel's participation and for a published framework setting out when a country can and cannot compete; it got neither, and entered anyway. The entry will be chosen INTERNALLY — VRT says there is no longer time to stage a national final. Belgium alternates between VRT and RTBF, and 2027 is VRT's turn. The decision is contested inside the building: trade unions ACV VRT and ACOD-VRT filed strike notices covering 11, 13 and 15 May 2027 — the two semi-finals and the grand final — to, in their joint statement, "protect all employees who have moral objections to contribute from far or near to the programs and broadcasts of and about the Eurovision Song Contest". No Eurovision broadcast has previously been struck by its own host-country staff. ESCXTRA reported on 7 October 2026 that broadcasters have "until mid-October to withdraw their participation without facing a financial penalty". That window is single-sourced: neither the EBU nor VRT has published one, and Eurovoix's confirmation report does not mention it. It is nonetheless the only documented reason on the record why a broadcaster that has already confirmed might still be priced below the rest of the confirmed field.

BNT hosts the 71st edition in Burgas after DARA's win with “Bangaranga”. As of 1 September 2026 it had not stated how it will choose its own entry — unusual for a host this late, and the only confirmed participant besides the UK with no format on the record.

Debut confirmed 1 July 2026 in a joint EBU/CBC announcement — the first country from the Americas and the second from outside the European Broadcasting Area after Australia. CBC/Radio-Canada confirmed on 31 August 2026 that the entry will be sung in both French and English: “the song will include both of Canada's official languages and may also include other languages”, with the chosen artist consulted on their comfort in each. Applications ran 31 Aug – 9 Sep 2026 (11:59pm PT), open to citizens and permanent residents aged 18+ on 1 May 2027. Canada picks the ARTIST first and commissions the song afterwards; a shortlist is named in the autumn and decided by a digital public vote on the Eurovision Song Contest Canada website alongside a jury of music experts.

HRT confirmed participation on 28 September 2026 and will use Dora again. Song submissions are open until 29 November 2026; an expert jury then picks 24 competing songs plus four reserves, and the final is scheduled for February 2027 with the exact date unannounced. Croatia has competed as an independent nation since 1993 and has missed only 2014 and 2015, when it withdrew over results and cost.

CyBC confirmed participation on 24 September 2026, making Burgas Cyprus's 43rd consecutive appearance since its 1981 debut — it has never skipped an edition it was eligible for since returning in 1982. Promoted here from the pending table, where it had sat on a standing channel policy of entering all three EBU music contests rather than on a 2027 statement. The selection method has not been confirmed: CyBC has picked internally in recent years, and Cypriot media reported in August 2026 that a production company had offered to fund and stage a televised national selection, which would be the first since 2015. That offer has still not been confirmed by the broadcaster.

Confirmed by DR before the 2026 final. Song submissions opened in late June 2026 and close on 25 October 2026 at midnight, from which eight songs are picked for the final. The children's MGP runs in the same arena on 20 February 2027.

ERR confirmed Estonia's participation on 4 September 2026 by opening the Eesti Laul 2027 submission window, which closes on 8 October. Twelve finalists compete in a single show: a jury-and-televote round picks three songs, and a superfinal decided purely by televote picks the winner. Entrants must be at least 18. This entry was added on 4 September 2026 — Estonia was absent from the confirmed list until ERR went on the record.

Submissions opened 17 August 2026 via yle.fi/umk and closed in the last week of August — Yle's own page gave 23 August, Eurovoix reported 24 August. A jury shortlists the field for the final, which will be the fourth consecutive UMK at Nokia Arena.

GPB confirmed its intention to compete in Burgas to ESCToday on 24 September 2026, which will be Georgia's 19th consecutive participation since its 2007 debut. The selection method has not been announced; GPB has used internal selection for its recent entries, having last run a televised national final in 2022.

SWR (responsible for German participation since taking over from NDR in 2026) is reusing the Das Deutsche Finale format, on a Saturday night in February 2027 — the exact date is not published. Song submissions CLOSED at 12:00 CEST on 21 September 2026. Entry rules: acts 18 or over by 1 January 2027 with a strong German connection, songs unreleased before 1 September 2026, under three minutes, any language, and AI-generated songs barred. An SWR “music team” — Jules Kalmbacher, Pele Loriano, Florian Müller, Celina Spanier and Lilly Behling — sifts round one; an international jury of music and Eurovision figures then gives feedback before SWR picks the finalists. SWR ran its first 2027 songwriting camp on 31 August 2026. UPDATE, 12 October 2026: SWR confirmed to ESC Kompakt that around 400 songs were submitted, about 25 of them out of the broadcaster's own songwriting camps. SWR calls the count "in line with 2026" and the quality "stronger than last year". Round one is complete and the first rejection emails have gone out; roughly 40 songs remain in contention going into the international jury round.

ERT confirmed participation in June 2026 and will keep Sing for Greece, the public selection first held in 2025 that has produced two consecutive top-ten finishes. Dates not yet announced.

KAN has confirmed participation and will again co-produce HaKokhav HaBa with Keshet 12. An open call for songs feeds a first round assessed by a KAN/Keshet committee, which shortlists 40 songs. Israel's participation is the subject of the EBU dispute that produced five boycotts in 2026 and RTVE's proposed rule change.

RAI published the full Sanremo 2027 regulations on 21 September 2026, which fix the date: night four, Friday 19 February 2027, is the Eurovision night. All 24 competing artists perform again with different staging, interpretation or arrangement from the other nights, and that performance is voted by an international jury plus televote — this is the vote that picks Italy's Eurovision entry. It is a real break with 2015–2026, when the Sanremo winner simply held right of first refusal, so Italy's Eurovision act and its Sanremo champion can now be two different artists. (The festival's own winner is decided separately: night four's result is aggregated with nights one and two, then the top three to five go to a televote-only round.) Artistic director Stefano De Martino said the artists “will have the opportunity to stage their performances according to their creative vision”.

Song submissions opened 1 August 2026 and close 1 October 2026. Foreign songwriters may compete provided non-Latvian rights holdings do not exceed 49%. The final runs in two parts: all finalists face public and international jury voting, the top three progress to a superfinal decided by public vote alone.

LRT confirmed its intention to compete to ESC Today in mid-August 2026 — Lithuania's 27th appearance since debuting in Dublin in 1994 — and formally launched Eurovizija.LT 2027 on 19 September 2026, which settles the format that had been listed here as merely expected. Song submissions opened the same day and close on 11 November 2026; a jury then picks at least 30 songs, participants are announced by 25 November, and artists have until 23 December to deliver final versions. Four semi-finals are scheduled to be filmed on 18, 19, 25 and 26 January 2027, with the live final on 20 February 2027. The substantive change is the voting: public votes move online to balsuok.lrt.lt, ending SMS and telephone voting.

The Luxembourgish government approved a further three years of participation in summer 2026. Artist and song applications, open since early July 2026, CLOSED on 20 September 2026. This is still the earliest confirmed national final of the 2027 season.

PBS confirmed it will compete in Burgas and is expected to use the Malta Eurovision Song Contest again. The format and rules are due later in 2026.

RTCG confirmed participation on 14 September 2026, ending a run of two consecutive Montesong national finals without saying whether a third is coming: the broadcaster says it has not decided between a national competition and an internal pick and will announce later. Montenegro returned in 2025 after a two-year absence. Promoted here from the pending table, where this site had left it on a February 2026 note about Tivat hosting the Eurovision Workshop — the confirmation had been public since 14 September and was missed for a fortnight.

RETURNING after a one-year absence. NPO confirmed on 23 September 2026 that the Netherlands will compete in Burgas, reversing the country's 2026 boycott — the first of the five 2026 boycotting countries to come back. The mandate has changed hands: AVROTROS, which had held it since 2010, withdrew on 24 August 2026 and has NOT reversed that, saying it "said goodbye to the Song Contest four weeks ago and made a careful ethical decision about it, based on our own standards and values" and that it will take no part in the new selection. NPO's executive board chair Jet de Ranitz framed the return as helping restore the contest's "unifying character". NPO is not itself a broadcaster, so NOS — the statutory public broadcaster for events of national importance — produces and broadcasts the shows and provides commentary from Bulgaria. The artist and song are chosen by a working group using an independent committee of music experts, explicitly to keep the choice out of politics; no dates, names or format details have been published. The EBU's confirmation deadline was 15 September; NPO asked for and was granted an extension to the end of September. Martin Green welcomed the return for the EBU. The decision is publicly contested in the Netherlands: critics note that nothing underlying the boycott changed — the war in Gaza continues and the EBU has not barred KAN from Burgas — so the reversal is a change of which broadcaster carries the entry, not of the ethical position AVROTROS took.

MRT director Zoran Ristoski confirmed the return in a public session on 21 May 2026, ending a four-year absence since 2022. MRT expects a more favourable EBU participation package. No selection format or date announced yet.

NRK confirmed participation in mid-June 2026 and opened MGP 2027 song submissions, which closed on 31 August 2026. Rules bar AI-generated songs, cap entries at 3 minutes, require at least one Norwegian songwriter, and require the song to be unreleased before 1 September 2026. UPDATE, 12 October 2026: NRK says around 1,500 songs were submitted, in line with recent editions, which have drawn between 1,000 and 1,500. The format has still not been revealed. On the same day Mads Tørklep, Norway's Head of Delegation, told NRK he believes 30 to 50 of those submissions were created entirely by AI in spite of the ban, and that "it is difficult for us to stop the use of technology".

TVP confirmed participation on 27 August 2026 — Poland's 29th appearance. Jacek Dybowski again runs the selection, as in 2025 and 2026. Polish outlet Eska reports a national final will be used again, but TVP has not itself published the format or a date.

TVR confirmed in late July 2026, after Romania finished third in Vienna. The broadcaster said the early confirmation is meant to give the project a predictable calendar and attract more composers, lyricists, producers and performers to Selecția Națională.

Two phases. The Dreaming San Marino Song Contest casting round puts 240 or more acts through to a Stage & Live Academy of eight shows across four sessions, five acts advancing from each. Semi-finals on 3 and 4 March 2027 cut 40 acts to ten by jury. The final on 6 March fields up to 20 — the ten qualifiers plus up to ten SMRTV wildcards — with a five-member jury choosing the winner.

SVT confirmed participation on 21 August 2026 — Sweden's 66th appearance. Dates and host cities were announced on 17 September 2026, earlier than the November–December press conference this entry previously expected: five heats on 6 February (Karlstad, Löfbergs Arena), 13 February (Göteborg, Scandinavium), 20 February (Malmö Arena), 27 February (Halmstad Arena) and 6 March (Norrköping, Himmelstalundshallen), with the final on 13 March 2027 at the Strawberry Arena in Stockholm. Halmstad and Norrköping host a heat for the first time since 2016; Karlstad returns after 2024. Submissions closed on 11 September 2026 with a record 4,077 songs, from which 30 are picked to compete, about 30% to be performed mainly in Swedish. Hosts Oscar Zia (his third) and Björn Kjellman (his first) were revealed on 28 August 2026. Competing artists are still to be named. UPDATE, 12 October 2026: Melodifestivalen project manager Anders Wistbacka told Aftonbladet he is "convinced that we will receive quite a few AI songs" among those 4,077 submissions, that SVT has no technology to screen songs for AI use and has not banned it, and that SVT does not want to be the first broadcaster to write AI rules because "this is an issue that the music industry will solve".

Submissions opened 20 August 2026 at srf.ch/eurovision and close 7 September 2026 at 23:00 CEST — the first 2027 window to shut. Switzerland has selected internally since 2019, combining a national and international expert jury with an international fan jury; SRG SSR says both panels have deliberately been made younger to meet the EBU's current jury requirements.

Suspilne confirmed participation on 14 September 2026 — Ukraine's 25th appearance — and opened the Vidbir 2027 submission window the next day, closing 2 November 2026, with the final in February 2027 and Dmytro Shurov (Pianoboy) as musical director. Promoted here from the pending table, where this site had left it on a February 2026 note about RTVE's proposed EBU rule change on countries in active military conflict. That proposal has produced no rule barring Ukraine, and Suspilne has entered.

Participation confirmed on 18 June 2026 by Niall Hay, head of press for the UK delegation. The BBC has not announced how it will pick the 2027 artist or song; it has used an internal selection with record-label and industry partners in recent years. BBC Studios holds the UK production tender through 2028.