Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

In September 2021, CEO of Panik Records George Arsenakos claimed that the label had signed an agreement with CyBC to establish a national final in order to select the Cypriot entrant for 2023.^[5] In January 2022, it was announced an agreement between the two parties is already in place for the 2022 selection and that the performance of the chosen act will be staged by Marvin Dietmann and Dan Shipton, both having previous experience at Eurovision.^[6]

Greek singer Andromachi Dimitropoulou, former contestant of The Voice of Greece, was rumoured to be the selected representative for Cyprus. The Cypriot radio programme Good Morning Show reported that the name of their national representative ended with -machi, and in addition to this, Dimitropoulou is signed with Panik Records.^[7] Dimitropoulou was officially announced as the Cypriot entrant with the song "Ela" on 9 March 2022 during the RIK 1 programme Ola ston Aera, where the music video, shot on 5 March in Athens, was also premiered.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 25 January 2022, an allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Cyprus has been placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 12 May 2022, and has been scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.^[13]

Once all the competing songs for the 2022 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Cyprus was set to perform in position 9, following the entry from Australia and before the entry from Ireland.^[14] They were not announced as one of the ten qualifiers, marking the first time Cyprus has failed to qualify since 2013. It was later announced that Cyprus placed twelfth in the semi-final with 63 points.^[15]

Points awarded to Cyprus (Semi-final 2)^[16]

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Azerbaijan
10 points	Serbia
8 points	Montenegro
7 points	Romania
6 points
5 points	North Macedonia
4 points	San Marino	Ireland
3 points	Poland	Finland
2 points		Sweden
1 point	Georgia  Malta  Spain  Sweden  United Kingdom

Detailed voting results from Cyprus (Semi-final 2)^[16]

R/O	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Finland	7	11	12	11	7	9	2	9	2
02	Israel	13	9	8	9	16	11		11
03	Serbia	4	2	14	12	5	6	5	1	12
04	Azerbaijan	17	12	1	1	10	5	6	13
05	Georgia	11	7	15	14	14	14		16
06	Malta	16	13	10	6	13	12		10	1
07	San Marino	15	14	11	8	15	15		12
08	Australia	3	4	3	2	3	2	10	7	4
09	Cyprus
10	Ireland	12	10	6	10	11	10	1	14
11	North Macedonia	9	16	17	17	17	17		15
12	Estonia	5	5	4	7	4	4	7	8	3
13	Romania	14	17	13	13	12	16		2	10
14	Poland	2	3	9	4	2	3	8	3	8
15	Montenegro	10	8	16	15	9	13		17
16	Belgium	8	15	5	5	8	8	3	5	6
17	Sweden	1	1	2	3	1	1	12	4	7
18	Czech Republic	6	6	7	16	6	7	4	6	5

Detailed voting results from Cyprus (Final)^[17]

R/O	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Czech Republic	11	19	9	20	6	13		24
02	Romania	25	18	16	12	14	21		7	4
03	Portugal	21	24	22	23	21	25		21
04	Finland	7	17	21	15	7	14		14
05	Switzerland	20	13	20	6	18	17		23
06	France	19	23	4	22	12	15		20
07	Norway	18	9	6	9	16	11		13
08	Armenia	17	14	23	18	17	22		10	1
09	Italy	9	16	5	10	22	10	1	6	5
10	Spain	16	12	1	2	8	5	6	3	8
11	Netherlands	13	22	10	21	23	20		18
12	Ukraine	2	5	14	24	1	4	7	1	12
13	Germany	14	21	24	14	9	18		15
14	Lithuania	23	20	17	13	24	23		9	2
15	Azerbaijan	4	4	2	1	11	2	10	22
16	Belgium	10	6	13	8	10	9	2	19
17	Greece	1	2	3	4	5	1	12	2	10
18	Iceland	15	25	25	25	25	24		25
19	Moldova	24	15	18	11	15	19		11
20	Sweden	6	11	7	7	3	6	5	12
21	Australia	3	3	11	3	2	3	8	16
22	United Kingdom	12	8	8	5	13	8	3	5	6
23	Poland	5	7	19	16	19	12		8	3
24	Serbia	22	1	15	19	4	7	4	4	7
25	Estonia	8	10	12	17	20	16		17