Fance 2, the French national broadcaster, has confirmed that France will compete at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest next year.

Thus France joins the list of countries who have so far confirmed their participation at the forthcoming 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland.

France Televisions is yet to confirm the mechanism it will use to select the 2025 French Eurovision entry and act.

France in Eurovision

France debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in the very first contest in 1956 and is one of the founder members of the competition. The French nation has won the event 5 times: 1958, 1960, 1962, 1969, 1977. France has hosted the Eurovision the contest on 3 occasions : Cannes (1959,1961) and Paris (1978).

In 2024 Slimane was selected via an internal selection to defend the French colours at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo with his entry ‘Mon Amour’, he achieved an honorable 4th placing in the Grand Final.


Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 22 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.