Fans are waking up to a surprise in the betting odds this morning with a break in the deadlock of recent weeks. Cyprus’ Eleni has overtaken Israel as the overall favourite position win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with “Fuego”.

In the end, the threat to Netta’s favourite spot did not come from Norway or Estonia, countries that had been tracking her closely in the betting for the past few days. Rather, it is Cyprus, rising steadily from lower down in the table, that suddenly makes the leap forward from fourth to first.

Israel drifts back slightly to make way for the new favourite. It is currently possible to get 3/1 on “Toy” winning the contest, the longest odds on the country in some time.

The new standings are as follows:

  1. Cyprus
  2. Israel
  3. Norway
  4. Estonia
  5. France
  6. Czech Republic
  7. Bulgaria
  8. Sweden
  9. Italy
  10. Moldova

The results of tonight’s semifinal will no doubt shake the odds up even more. Stay tuned for our pre-show betting snapshot and results analysis this evening!


Richard's ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it's been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.