Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
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Portugal was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Deslocado", performed by Napa and written by its members João Lourenço Gomes, João Rodrigues, Diogo Góis, Francisco Sousa, André Santos, and Guilherme Gomes. The Portuguese participating broadcaster, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) organised the national final Festival da Canção 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Portugal| Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) | |||
| Country | Portugal | |||
| Selection process | Festival da Canção 2025 | |||
| Selection date | 8 March 2025 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Deslocado" | |||
| Artist | Napa | |||
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| Placement | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (9th, 56 points) | |||
| Final result | 21st, 50 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Portugal successfully qualified for the Grand Final during the first semi-final on 13 May with 56 points, placing ninth.[1] Performing in position 21, Portugal placed twenty-first out of the 26 performing countries with 50 points, obtaining 13 points from the Public and 37 points from the Jury.[2]
Background
Prior to the 2025 contest, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) until 2003, and Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) since 2004, have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Portugal fifty-five times since their first entry in 1964. They had won the contest on one occasion: in 2017 with the song "Amar pelos dois" performed by Salvador Sobral. Since the introduction of semi-finals to the format of the contest in 2004, Portugal has thus far managed to qualify to the final on eight occasions, the latest being in 2024, when "Grito" performed by Iolanda ultimately placed 10th in the final.[3]
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTP organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster had traditionally selected its entry for the contest via the music competition Festival da Canção, with exceptions in 1988 and 2005 when the entries were internally selected. RTP confirmed its participation in the 2025 contest on 14 August 2024, announcing the organisation of the 59th Festival da Canção in order to select its 2025 entry.[4][5]
Before Eurovision
Festival da Canção 2025
Festival da Canção 2025 was the 59th edition of Festival da Canção organised by RTP to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. 20 entries competed in the selection that consisted of two semi-finals held on 22 February and 1 March 2025 leading to a 12-song final on 8 March 2025.[6] All three shows were broadcast on RTP1, RTP África, and RTP Internacional as well as on radio via Antena 1 and online via RTP Play.
Format
The format of the competition consisted of three shows: two semi-finals and a final. Each semi-final featured 10 competing entries from which six advanced from each show to complete the 12-song lineup in the final. Results during the semi-finals were determined by the votes from a jury panel appointed by RTP and public televoting; the first five qualifiers were based on the 50/50 combination of jury and public voting where both streams of voting assigned points from 1–8, 10 and 12 based on ranking, while the sixth qualifier was determined by a second round of public televoting from the remaining entries. Results during the final were determined by the 50/50 combination of votes from seven regional juries and public televoting. Both the public televote and the juries assigned points from 1–8, 10, and 12 based on the ranking developed by both streams of voting.[6]
Competing entries
20 composers were selected by RTP through two methods: 14 invited by RTP for the competition and six selected from 633 submissions received through an open call for songs between 14 August and 15 October 2024. The composers, which both created the songs and selected its performers, were required to submit the demo and final versions of their entries by 31 October and 30 November 2024, respectively. Songs could be submitted in any language.[6][7] The selected composers were revealed on 5 November 2024, while the competing artists were revealed on 23 January 2025.[7][8]
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | Selection |
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| A Cantadeira | "Responso à mulher" | Joana Negrão | Invited by RTP |
| Bluay | "Ninguém" |
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| Bombazine | "Apago tudo" |
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| Capital da Bulgária | "Lisboa" | Sofia Reis | Open call winner |
| Diana Vilarinho | "Cotovia" |
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| Du Nothin | "Sobre nós" |
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Invited by RTP |
| Emmy Curl | "Rapsódia da paz" |
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| Fernando Daniel | "Medo" |
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| Henka | "I Wanna Destroy U" |
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Open call winner |
| Inês Marques Lucas | "Quantos queres" | Inês Marques Lucas | |
| Jéssica Pina | "Calafrio" | Jéssica Pina | Invited by RTP |
| Josh | "Tristeza" |
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Open call winner |
| Luca Argel feat. Pri Azevedo | "Quem foi?" | Luca Argel | Invited by RTP |
| Marco Rodrigues | "A minha casa" |
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| Margarida Campelo | "Eu sei que o amor" |
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| Napa | "Deslocado" |
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| Peculiar | "Adamastor" | João Nicolau Quintela | |
| Rita Sampaio | "Voltas" |
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| Tota | "Á-tê-xis" |
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| Xico Gaiato | "Ai senhor!" |
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Open call winner |
Semi-finals
The semi-finals took place on 22 February and 1 March 2025.[7] In each show, ten entries competed, with six advancing to the final. The voting occurred in two rounds: a 50/50 combination of votes from an expert jury and a public televote determined the first five qualifiers, and a second round of televoting determined the sixth and final qualifier.[6]
Key: Jury and televote round qualifier Televote-only round qualifier
| R/O | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage | Points | ||||||
| 1 | Xico Gaiato | "Ai senhor!" | 5 | 12.24% | 7 | 12 | 8 |
| 2 | Rita Sampaio | "Voltas" | 1 | 2.89% | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | Du Nothin | "Sobre nós" | 4 | 6.83% | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 4 | Marco Rodrigues | "A minha casa" | 2 | 13.63% | 12 | 14 | 4 |
| 5 | Margarida Campelo | "Eu sei que o amor" | 12 | 7.34% | 3 | 15 | 1 |
| 6 | Josh | "Tristeza" | 7 | 11.97% | 6 | 13 | 5 |
| 7 | Capital da Bulgária | "Lisboa" | 8 | 8.34% | 4 | 12 | 7 |
| 8 | Bluay | "Ninguém" | 10 | 10.89% | 5 | 15 | 2 |
| 9 | Jéssica Pina | "Calafrio" | 6 | 12.59% | 8 | 14 | 3 |
| 10 | Peculiar | "Adamastor" | 3 | 13.28% | 10 | 13 | 6 |
| Artist | Song | Televote | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital da Bulgária | "Lisboa" | 15.11% | 3 |
| Du Nothin | "Sobre nós" | 14.90% | 4 |
| Peculiar | "Adamastor" | 43.63% | 1 |
| Rita Sampaio | "Voltas" | 7.27% | 5 |
| Xico Gaiato | "Ai senhor!" | 19.09% | 2 |
| R/O | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | |
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| Percentage | Points | ||||||
| 1 | A Cantadeira | "Responso à mulher" | 1 | 5.32% | 5 | 6 | 10 |
| 2 | Tota | "Á-tê-xis" | 6 | 2.07% | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 3 | Bombazine | "Apago tudo" | 7 | 13.6% | 7 | 14 | 3 |
| 4 | Emmy Curl | "Rapsódia da paz" | 10 | 2.61% | 3 | 13 | 4 |
| 5 | Inês Marques Lucas | "Quantos queres" | 5 | 3.76% | 4 | 9 | 7 |
| 6 | Fernando Daniel | "Medo" | 3 | 18.88% | 10 | 13 | 5 |
| 7 | Luca Argel feat. Pri Azevedo | "Quem foi?" | 4 | 2.50% | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | Napa | "Deslocado" | 8 | 25.70% | 12 | 20 | 1 |
| 9 | Diana Vilarinho | "Cotovia" | 12 | 7.66% | 6 | 18 | 2 |
| 10 | Henka | "I Wanna Destroy U" | 2 | 18.23% | 8 | 10 | 6 |
| Artist | Song | Televote | Place |
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| A Cantadeira | "Responso à mulher" | 17.82% | 2 |
| Henka | "I Wanna Destroy U" | 53.58% | 1 |
| Inês Marques Lucas | "Quantos queres" | 12.44% | 3 |
| Luca Argel feat. Pri Azevedo | "Quem foi?" | 9.51% | 4 |
| Tota | "Á-tê-xis" | 6.65% | 5 |
Final
The final took place on 8 March 2025.[7] The winner was selected based on the 50/50 combination of votes from seven three-member regional juries (one for each of the regions of Portugal) and from a public televote open throughout the week preceding the show; in the event of a tie, the public voting would take precedence.[6]
| R/O | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | ||
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| Votes | Points | Percentage | Points | |||||
| 1 | Bombazine | "Apago tudo" | 27 | 2 | 5.98% | 6 | 8 | 7 |
| 2 | Margarida Campelo | "Eu sei que o amor" | 37 | 6 | 1.00% | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 3 | Henka | "I Wanna Destroy U" | 18 | 0 | 29.83% | 12 | 12 | 4 |
| 4 | Bluay | "Ninguém" | 16 | 0 | 1.82% | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 5 | Jéssica Pina | "Calafrio" | 52 | 10 | 2.19% | 2 | 12 | 6 |
| 6 | Marco Rodrigues | "A minha casa" | 28 | 3 | 3.24% | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| 7 | Napa | "Deslocado" | 38 | 7 | 21.14% | 10 | 17 | 1 |
| 8 | Peculiar | "Adamastor" | 26 | 1 | 2.78% | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 9 | Fernando Daniel | "Medo" | 42 | 8 | 15.57% | 8 | 16 | 3 |
| 10 | Emmy Curl | "Rapsódia da paz" | 31 | 4 | 1.80% | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| 11 | Josh | "Tristeza" | 34 | 5 | 8.74% | 7 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | Diana Vilarinho | "Cotovia" | 57 | 12 | 5.91% | 5 | 17 | 2 |
| R/O | Song | North |
Central |
Lisbon Area |
Alentejo |
Algarve |
Madeira |
Azores |
Total |
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| 1 | "Apago tudo" | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 27 | |
| 2 | "Eu sei que o amor" | 8 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 37 |
| 3 | "I Wanna Destroy U" | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 18 | |||
| 4 | "Ninguém" | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 | |
| 5 | "Calafrio" | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 52 |
| 6 | "A minha casa" | 12 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 28 | ||
| 7 | "Deslocado" | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 38 | |
| 8 | "Adamastor" | 12 | 12 | 2 | 26 | ||||
| 9 | "Medo" | 7 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 42 | |
| 10 | "Rapsódia da paz" | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 31 |
| 11 | "Tristeza" | 6 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 34 | |
| 12 | "Cotovia" | 4 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 57 |
Official album
Festival da Canção 2025 is the official compilation album of the contest. It was compiled by Sony Music Entertainment Portugal and was digitally released by the former on 23 January 2025.[14][15] The album features the twenty participating entries of the contest.
At Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025.[17] During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Portugal was drawn to compete in the first semi-final, performing in the first half of the show.[18] Napa was later drawn to perform 7th, ahead of Sweden's KAJ and before Norway's Kyle Alessandro.[19]
After placing ninth with 56 points, Portugal qualified for the Grand Final.[1][20] This was despite predictions that they would not qualify,[21] with most bookmakers giving them 6/1 odds and an overall qualifying chance of 14%, placing them last (fifteenth) in the rankings.[22] Performing twenty-first out of 26 performances in the Grand Final, Napa's 'Deslocado' received 13 points from the Public and 37 points from the Jury, placing Portugal twenty-first overall.[2]
Portugal's Eurovision 2025 Spokesperson was announced on 15 May 2025 as Iolanda, who announced Portugal's jury votes in the Grand Final of the contest.[23] Iolanda, who represented Portugal in Eurovision 2024 with her song 'grito', also performed a rendition of Céline Dion's 1988 Swiss winning entry "Ne partez pas sans moi" as a guest performer during the first semi-final, alongside former Eurovision contestants Jerry Heil (Ukraine 2024), Marina Satti (Greece 2024) and Silvester Belt (Lithuania 2024).[24]
Voting
Points awarded to Portugal
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Points awarded by Portugal
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Detailed voting results
Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently.[26] The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.
The following members comprised the Portuguese jury:[27]
- Alberto Hernández Seruca
- Alexandre Manuel Valério Mesquita Guimarães
- Luís Oliveira Nunes
- Lia Isabel Pereira
- Nádia Lima Pereira
| R/O | Country | Televote | |
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| Rank | Points | ||
| 01 |  Iceland | 9 | 2 |
| 02 |  Poland | 7 | 4 |
| 03 |  Slovenia | 11 | |
| 04 |  Estonia | 5 | 6 |
| 05 |  Ukraine | 1 | 12 |
| 06 |  Sweden | 4 | 7 |
| 07 | Portugal | ||
| 08 |  Norway | 8 | 3 |
| 09 |  Belgium | 12 | |
| 10 |  Azerbaijan | 13 | |
| 11 |  San Marino | 10 | 1 |
| 12 |  Albania | 3 | 8 |
| 13 |  Netherlands | 2 | 10 |
| 14 |  Croatia | 14 | |
| 15 |  Cyprus | 6 | 5 |
| R/O | Country | Jury | Televote | |||||||
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| Juror A | Juror B | Juror C | Juror D | Juror E | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | ||
| 01 | Norway | 11 | 20 | 17 | 23 | 12 | 18 | 17 | ||
| 02 |  Luxembourg | 9 | 13 | 21 | 18 | 6 | 15 | 20 | ||
| 03 | Estonia | 12 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 04 |  Israel | 13 | 18 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 1 | 12 | |
| 05 |  Lithuania | 15 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 14 | ||
| 06 |  Spain | 19 | 16 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 5 | 6 | |
| 07 | Ukraine | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 08 |  United Kingdom | 16 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 22 | |
| 09 |  Austria | 10 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | Iceland | 18 | 25 | 24 | 25 | 17 | 24 | 19 | ||
| 11 |  Latvia | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 16 | |
| 12 | Netherlands | 4 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| 13 |  Finland | 20 | 15 | 22 | 11 | 23 | 20 | 13 | ||
| 14 |  Italy | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 8 |
| 15 | Poland | 5 | 23 | 20 | 20 | 24 | 16 | 12 | ||
| 16 |  Germany | 21 | 22 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 15 | ||
| 17 |  Greece | 6 | 19 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 18 | |
| 18 |  Armenia | 22 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 14 | 21 | ||
| 19 |  Switzerland | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | |
| 20 |  Malta | 25 | 14 | 16 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 24 | ||
| 21 | Portugal | |||||||||
| 22 |  Denmark | 23 | 21 | 12 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 23 | ||
| 23 | Sweden | 24 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 4 | |
| 24 |  France | 14 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 5 | |
| 25 | San Marino | 17 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 25 | ||
| 26 | Albania | 1 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
Notes
- San Marino uses a jury in the semi-finals.