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HRT, the Croatian national broadcaster, has confirmed that Croatia will compete at the forthcoming 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria.

Thus Croatia joins the list of countries who have so far confirmed their participation at Eurovision 2027.

Croatia will be selecting its Eurovision entry and act via its traditional national selection DORA. HRT, the Croatian national broadcaster ,has relased the rules and regulations of DORA 2026 and opened the song submission window for DORA 2027 with the deadline set on 29 November.

An expert jury will whittle down the submitted entries to 24 songs and 4 reserve songs. DORA 2027 is scheduled to be held in February.

Croatia in Eurovision

Croatia debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 with the six member group Put and their entry Don’t ever cry, and is yet to win the event. The Balkan country’s best results in the competition were achieved in 2024 when Baby Lasagna represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo with his epic hit ‘Rim Tim Tagi Dim‘ placing 2nd in the Grand Final.

The country has competed 31 times in the contest and has not been very lucky in the competition in recent years, with its last top 10 finish in 2024.

In 2026 LELEK represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with their entry ‘Andromeda‘.


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 23 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.