In next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool 37 countries will compete for the crown! Today this was stated on the official website of the Eurovision Song Contest, Eurovision.tv.
This means that next year’s contest is one of the smaller ones in recent years, with the contests in Serbia (2008), Germany (2011), and Portugal (2018) the biggest ones with 43 participating countries respectively, but the upcoming contest will have the same number of participants as in Greece (2006) and Denmark (2014).
List of 2023 participating countries
Below you can find the participating countries and their respective public broadcasters.
- 🇦🇱 Albania – RTSH
- 🇦🇺 Australia – SBS (*EBU Associate)
- 🇦🇲 Armenia – AMPTV
- 🇦🇹 Austria – ORF
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Ictimai TV
- 🇧🇪 Belgium – VRT
- 🇭🇷 Croatia – HRT
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus – CyBC
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic CT
- 🇩🇰 Denmark – DR
- 🇪🇪 Estonia – ERR
- 🇫🇮 Finland – YLE
- 🇫🇷 France – FT
- 🇬🇪 Georgia – GPB
- 🇩🇪 Germany – ARD/NDR
- 🇬🇷 Greece – ERT
- 🇮🇸 Iceland – RÚV
- 🇮🇪 Ireland – RTÉ
- 🇮🇱 Israel – IPBC/Kan
- 🇮🇹 Italy – RAI
- 🇱🇻 Latvia – LTV
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania – LRT
- 🇲🇹 Malta – PBS
- 🇲🇩 Moldova – TRM
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands – AVROTROS
- 🇳🇴 Norway – NRK
- 🇵🇱 Poland – TVP
- 🇵🇹 Portugal – RTP
- 🇷🇴 Romania – TVR
- 🇸🇲 San Marino – RTV
- 🇷🇸 Serbia – RTS
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia – RTVSLO
- 🇪🇸 Spain – TVE
- 🇸🇪 Sweden – SVT
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland – SRG / SSR
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine – UA:PBC
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – BBC (Host Broadcaster)
Eurovision 2023
The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 will take place in Liverpool (United Kingdom) on behalf of this year’s winners, Ukraine. The contest will be held on the 9th of May 2023 (Semi-Final 1), 11th of May 2023 (Semi-Final 2), and May 13th 2022 (Grand Final) in the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.
Source: eurovision.tv, official website of the Eurovision Song Contest by the EBU