2015 Eurovision semi-final draw

THE draw for the semi-finals of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has been made in host city Vienna.

Prior to today’s draw the 33 countries that enter at the semi-final stage were split into five pots based on their voting patterns from the past 10 years. Winners are shown in bold.

Pot A	Pot B	Pot C	Pot D	Pot E
Albania	Denmark	Armenia	Belgium	Czech Republic
Macedonia	Estonia	Azerbaijan	Cyprus	Hungary
Malta G.C.	Finland	Belarus	Greece	Moldova
Montenegro	Iceland	Georgia	Ireland	Poland
Serbia	Latvia	Israel	Netherlands	Portugal
Slovenia	Norway	Lithuania	San Marino	Romania
Switzerland	Sweden	Russia	–	–

The result of the draw is as follows (countries listed in alphabetical order):

Semi-Final 1 – Tuesday 19th May
Armenia	Interval	Albania
Belgium		Belarus
Estonia		Denmark
Finland		Georgia
Greece		Hungary
Macedonia		Romania
Moldova		Russia
Netherlands		Serbia
Also voting	Austria, France and Spain

 

Semi-Final 2 – Thursday 21st May
Czech Republic	Interval	Azerbaijan
Ireland		Cyprus
Lithuania		Iceland
Malta G.C.		Israel
Montenegro		Latvia
Norway		Poland
Portugal		Slovenia
San Marino		Sweden
–		Switzerland
Also voting	Germany, Italy and U.K.

The top 10 nations from each semi will advance to the Final along with the Big Five: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. as well as host and last year’s winner, Austria on Saturday 23^rd May.

Cyprus and Serbia are returning to the contest after sitting out last year’s, while Czechia last participated in 2009.

Ukraine will not take part this year owing to financial issues surrounding the ongoing crisis in the country.

This year’s edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is the 60^th and the first to be held in Austria since 1967, which was won by Sandie Shaw of the U.K. with Puppet on a String.

Austria’s Conchita Wurst won last year’s contest in Copenhagen with Rise Like a Phoenix.