Boa tarde Europe, this is Lisbon calling! We are travelling to the sunny shores of Portugal tonight for the Grand Final of Festival da Cançao 2025. Portugal decides its Eurovision act and entry for Basel this evening.
Portugal will be continuing with its traditional national selection Festival da Cançao this evening. Portugal will be dertermining its Eurovision act and entry for Basel tonight.
How to watch?
You can watch the Grand Final of Festival da Canção 2025 at 22:00 CET (21:00 local time) via the following channels:
Participants
- Marco Rodrigues – “A Minha Casa”
- Margarida Campelo – “Eu sei que o amor”
- Josh – “Tristeza”
- Bluay – “Ninguém”
- Jéssica Pina – “Calafrio”
- Peculiar – “Adamastor“
- Bombazine – «Apago Tudo»
- Emmy Curl – «Rapsódia Da Paz»
- Fernando Daniel – «Medo»
- Napa – «Deslocado»
- Diana Vilarinho – «Cotovia»
- Henka – «I Wanna Destroy U»
About the show
A total of 12 acts will be battling tonight for a ticket to the Grand Final of Festival da Canção 2025. The show will be held at the RTP Studios in Lisbon and will be hosted by Filomena Cautela and Vasco Palmerim.
FdC 2025
The 2025 FdC consists of three shows ( two semi-finals and a grand final) scheduled to be broadcast live on 22 February, 01 and 08 March at the RTP Studios in Lisbon, Portugal. The Grand Final of Festival da Cançao 2025 will be held tonight.
A total of 20 acts battled for the golden ticket to Switzerland, 10 acts competed in each semi-final, the top 6 entries from each semi-final proceeded to the Grand Final of FdC. Hence 12 acts will fight for the right to represent Portugal at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in the Portuguese national final.
RTP extended an invite to 14 composers to submit their songs for the competition, the composers were free to chose the artist/s for their respective songs. Whilst the remaining 6 entries were selected via an open public selection.
The 2025 Portuguese Eurovision entry will be determined via a 50/50 public televoting- regional jury deliberation.
Portugal in Eurovision
Portugal debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964 and has won the competition once, namely in 2017 with Salvador Sobral‘s Amor pelo dois. The country successfully hosted the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon.
Portugal has competed 54 times in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Source: RTP
Photo credit: RTP
