Portugal

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation
Portugal
Flag
Member stationRTP
National selection eventsNone (Q4-2022, Q4-2023, Q2-2024)
Portugal: Selects Song to Manchester (Q1-2023)
Portugal: Selects Song to Melbourne (Q2-2023)
Portugal: Selects Song to Cologne (Q3-2023)
Neoni: Selects Song to Beirut (Q1-24)
Portugal: Selects Song to Hanoi (Q3-2024)
Participation summary
Appearances8 (8 finals)
Host1: (Q2-2024)
First appearanceQ4-2022
Highest placement1st: (Q1-2024)

Portugal has participated in the Worldvision Song Contest 8 times since making its debut in the very first edition - Q4-2022. The contest is broadcast in Portugal by RTP.

Portugal has started it's debut at Q4-2022 quite successfully with becoming a runner-up and leaving only United Kingdom ahead.

From the season Q1-2023, Portugal also occasionally organizes its own national selcetion: Portugal: Selects Song to HOST CITY, where the name of the selection changes based on the contest hosting city. During the next edition, at Q2-2023 they have achieved another great result by finishing third.

However, their best result has been achieved in Q1-2024 by Neoni, who has won the competition with the song Darkside which brought the country's first victory and the right to host the next edition. Also, this was the first participation when Portugal has competed in the Semi-Finals. The next contest Q2-2024 has been held in Guimarães, Portugal.

Portugal is also notable for their IECO activity. The country curator Denis Vorobyov is also a supervisor and a founder of Special Melody contest, one of the IECO constant projects. Portugal also actively participates in other competitions of IECO as well.

Participation overview

Table key
First place
Second place
Third place
Last place
Upcoming
Year Entrant Song Language Final Points Semi Final Points
Q4-2022 Gryffin & Kyle Reynolds Best Is Yet To Come English 2 151 No semi-finals
Q1-2023 Joel Corry & Mabel I Wish English 17 101
Q2-2023 Ofenbach & Ella Henderson Hurricane English 3 178
Q3-2023 Galantis & Lucas & Steve & Ilira Alien English 17 106 Top 11 in Q2-2023
Q4-2023 Tungevaag In My Zone English 21 89 By rating
Q1-2024 Neoni Darkside English 1 286 5 90
Q2-2024 Jim Yosef, Electro-Light, Anna Yvette, Deaf Kev & Tobu Destiny English 24 52 Host Country
Q3-2024 Crash Adams Give Ne A Kiss English

Navigation