Portugal in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025

RTP confirmed Portugal's participation on 8 March 2025 and confirmed that it would selct it’s entry using The Voice Kids format.^[5][6][7] The contest consisted of Blind auditions, Battles, Semi-finals and a Live final which took place on 13 July 2025. It was won by Inês Gonçalves, giving her the right to represent them at Junior Eurovision.^[8][9]

The song that was to be performed by Gonçalves was confirmed to be “Para Onde Vai o Amor?” and it was released on 7 November 2025, with and acompannying music video.^[10] The song was written by Aurora Pinto, Bernardo Espinho, João Direitinho and Miguel Cristovinho.^[11]

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at the Gymnastic Hall of Olympic City in Tbilisi, Georgia on 13 December 2025. On 4 November 2025, an allocation draw was held to determine the running order of the contest, ahead of which each song was classified into a different category based on its musical style and tempo. Portugal was drawn to perform in position 13, following the entry from the Italy and before the entry from Spain.^[12]

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every participating broadcaster assembles a national jury that consists of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. The rankings of those jurors are combined to make an overall top ten.^[13]

The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting will begin on 12 December 2025 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters will also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on 13 December at 16:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able to vote for three songs.^[14] They will also be able to vote for their own country's song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song receives 10% of the votes, it will receive 10% of the available points.

Victoria Nicole who represented them in 2024 was announced to be their spokesperson for the final.^[15] Portugal finished 13th in the contest with 73 points; 32 from the jury and 41 from the online voting

Points awarded to Portugal[16] Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points  Albania 6 points  Ireland 5 points 4 points  Croatia 3 points  Poland  Montenegro  Georgia 2 points  Italy  Armenia  Netherlands 1 point Portugal received 41 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Portugal[16] Score Country 12 points  Spain 10 points  Georgia 8 points  France 7 points  Poland 6 points  Armenia 5 points  Albania 4 points  San Marino 3 points  Ukraine 2 points  North Macedonia 1 point  Malta