Eurovision 2024: Semi-final Allocation Draw hosts unveiled

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SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster, has unveiled the hosts for the forthcoming Eurovision 2024 Semi-final Allocation Draw which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 30th January in Malmo, Sweden.

Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi will have the grand honour of the hosting the Eurovision 2024 Semi-final Allocation Draw on 30 January.

Pernilla Mansson Colt says:

It will be great fun to kick off Sweden’s Eurovision year from Malmö, and The Draw can be more important than you might think for the competition later!

Farah Abadi says:

This is the kick-off for Eurovision and it’s extra fun to be able to do the program together with Pernilla, particularly as it’s in our hometown Malmö!

The Eurovision 2024 Semi-final Allocation Draw will be broadcast live on Tuesday 30 January at 19:00 CET on SVT 2, SVT Play and on the official Eurovision Song Contest Youtube channel.

Semi-final Allocation Draw

The 2024 Eurovision Semi-final Allocation Draw is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 30 January in Malmo. SVT and the EBU are yet to confirm both the hosts and venue of the event.

A total of 37 countries will partake at the forthcoming 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. 31 countries will compete in the semi-finals whilst a total of 26 countries will compete in the Grand Final on 11 May.

How many countries will compete in each semi-final?

A total of 31 countries will fight for the golden ticket to the Grand Final in one of the two semi-finals on 07 and 09 May. Thus 16 countries will compete in one semi-final and 15 countries in the other, whist the Big 5 ( Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany) and host country Sweden have a direct ticket to the Grand Final on 11 May.

The 31 semi-finalist countries will be divided into several pots and distributed equally into each of the 2 semi-finals by a draw. The distribution of the countries in the pots will be based on the voting pattern in each country in the past years.

This mechanism is used in order to avoid neighbourly voting and countries that tend to vote for each another ending up competing in the same semi-final.

The first draw will determine which country will compete in which semi-final.

The exact running order of the 31 countries competing in the 2 semi-finals on 07 and 09 May will be determined by the producers of the show by late March. The draw will be supervised by EBU’s Executive Supervisor Mr. Martin Osterdahl.

Semi-finalist countries

  1. Albania
  2. Armenia
  3. Australia
  4. Austria
  5. Azerbaijan
  6. Belgium
  7. Croatia
  8. Cyprus
  9. Czechia
  10. Denmark
  11. Estonia
  12. Finland
  13. Georgia
  14. Greece
  15. Iceland
  16. Ireland
  17. Israel
  18. Latvia
  19. Lithuania
  20. Luxembourg
  21. Malta
  22. Moldova
  23. Netherlands
  24. Norway
  25. Poland
  26. Portugal
  27. San Marino
  28. Serbia
  29. Slovenia
  30. Switzerland
  31. Ukraine

Big 5 + Host Country Sweden

  1. France
  2. Germany
  3. Italy
  4. Spain
  5. Sweden
  6. United Kingdom

First/second half of Semi-final Allocation Draw

Another draw will determine the appearance of the country in its respective semi-final (1st half or 2nd half of the semi-final).

Big 5+ Sweden (Host Country) voting in semi-finals

The Big 5 (Italy, France, UK, Spain and Germany) countries and host nation Sweden will vote in the semi-finals too. A draw will also determine which country will vote in which semi-final.

 

Source: SVT/ Eurovision.tv/ESCToday
Photo credit:  Magnus Liam Karlsson/SVT and Janne Danielsson/SVT