RTBF, the French speaking Belgian national broadcaster, has confirmed to ESCToday that Belgium will participate at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Austria.
Thus Belgium the list of the countries who have so far confirmed their participation at the forthcoming 2026 Eurovision Song Contest in Austria.
The French Belgian national broadcaster, RTBF, is yet to confirm the mechanism it will use in order to select the 2026 Belgian Eurovision entry and act. RTBF has been selecting its Eurovision act and entry via an internal selection in recent years.
In Belgium the Eurovision Song Contest participation is alternated between RTBF and VRT every year, hence both the French speaking and Flemish speaking broadcasters compete at the ESC alternately. For 2026 it will be RTBF’s turn to compete and determine the Belgian entry and act.
Belgium in Eurovision
Belgium is one of the founding members of the Eurovision Song Contest having debuted in 1956. The country has won the competition once in 1986 with Sandra Kim.
In 2025 Red Sebastian defended the Belgian colours at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel with his entry ‘ Strobe Lights‘.
