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Bookmakers have priced up the Eurovision Song Contest for decades, and the odds have become one of the most watched indicators of how a season is shaping up. This category tracks them from the first national finals through rehearsal week to the grand final, covering the favourites, the movers, and how the markets compare with the actual results.
Bookies’ Round-up 2021 : Another Almost Perfect Sweep
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 20, 2021
Bookies’ collective rankings matched Tuesday night’s semifinal success tonight, as nine out of ten favourites to qualify made it to
Bookies’ Round-up 2021 : Italy Still Leads as Top Ten Evolves
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 19, 2021
The arrival of a superstar rapper and sad news from the Icelandic delegation have added to the first semifinal stir-up
Bookies’ Roundup 2021 : 9/10 on the First Semi Scorecard
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 18, 2021
Bookies’ odds can be a great barometer of song support in Eurovision, although sometimes it is less hit, more miss.
Bookies’ Roundup 2021 : Cyprus Enters Top Five
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 17, 2021
Not much change at the top today, the first day of Eurovision week, as Italy, France and Malta hold onto
Bookies’ Roundup 2021 : Italy Now Favourite To Win
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 15, 2021
Today marks a special milestone in the contest preparations, being one week before the grand final in Rotterdam. And after
Bookies’ Roundup 2021 : Italy Challenges for the Win
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 13, 2021
There’s a new kid on the betting block today, as Italy surges into second favourite to win with bookies across
Bookies’ Roundup 2021 : France Edges Towards The Crown
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 10, 2021
With rehearsals well under way in Rotterdam, money is changing hands fervently at bookmakers across Europe. Bookies collectively hit on
Final odds: is this tonight’s top ten?
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 18, 2019
On the day of final, the Netherlands manage to hold onto gold, while Australia consolidates a second place and Switzerland
Bookies Roundup: Are these tonight’s winners?
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 16, 2019
Kate Miller-Heidke’s gravity-defying climb with the bookmakers continues, as Australia nudges Russia down to take the bookies’ third favourite position
Australia soars as bookies bag eight out of ten
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 15, 2019
Australia is employing “Zero Gravity” to soar up behind the top three favourites to win after a night of shocks
Are these tonight’s odds-on qualifiers?
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 14, 2019
After Monday evening gave juries the chance to judge the entire first semifinal, it is Australia, Iceland and Greece who
Odds Monitor: Israel returns as former favourite snatches crown
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 13, 2018
Punters managed to predict the top two of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final – only the wrong way round.
Odds Monitor: Cyprus, Israel and Ireland top the table before final showdown
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 12, 2018
Cyprus is odds on favourite to be a first-time winner in tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest final with Eleni Foureira and
Odds Monitor: Ireland catapulted to third behind Cyprus and Israel
- By Richard West-Soley
- . May 11, 2018
Eurovision Eve has been a dramatic day in the odds, as former long shot Ireland is catapulted into the top