What time is the Eurovision 2025 final and who is in it?

The Eurovision Song Contest is backmost - this clip successful Basel, Switzerland.

The UK's introduction this twelvemonth is Remember Monday - a country-pop trio who volition execute their opus What The Hell Just Happened.

The Eurovision Song Contest is an yearly televised contention organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

The taxable for the 2025 variation is "Welcome Home", arsenic the archetypal contention was held successful Switzerland successful 1956.

Songs indispensable beryllium archetypal and nary much than 3 minutes long. They cannot person been released oregon publically performed earlier 1 September 2024.

Lead vocals indispensable beryllium live, with nary lip-syncing oregon auto-tuning allowed and a maximum of six singers and dancers.

The expansive last of the contention volition instrumentality spot successful St Jakobshalle, an indoor arena successful Basel, connected Saturday 17 May.

It volition beryllium broadcast live connected TV connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 20:00 BST, hosted by Graham Norton.

You tin besides perceive connected BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds, hosted by Scott Mills and Rylan Clark.

Inside the arena, the planetary Eurovision sum volition beryllium hosted by presenters Hazel Brugger, Sandra Studer and Michelle Hunziker.

A full of 37 countries are taking portion successful Eurovision 2025 - each but 1 took portion successful past year's contention successful Malmö, Sweden.

Montenegro returns to the contention this twelvemonth for the archetypal clip since 2022, replacing Moldova - which withdrew due to the fact that of fiscal and logistical challenges.

Most Eurovision countries are European, but Australia takes portion each year, aft being invited to articulation Eurovision's 60th day celebrations successful 2015. Australia, however, cannot big if it ever wins.

Other non-European countries including Israel enactment due to the fact that they are members of the EBU.

Russia has been banned since 2022, following its penetration of Ukraine.

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Switzerland is playing big to Eurovision 2025 aft contestant Nemo won the 2024 contention with the opus The Code.

Nemo is owed to look arsenic a impermanent performer this twelvemonth too, contempt accusing the contention of not supporting artists capable successful 2024.

This is the 3rd clip that Switzerland has hosted Eurovision. Its contestant this twelvemonth is Zoë Më, with the opus Voyage.

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The "big five" nations who supply other fiscal enactment to Eurovision get an automatic qualification for the final. These are the UK, Italy, Spain, France and Germany.

Switzerland besides gets a aureate summons to honour past year's victory.

In the archetypal semi-final connected 13 May, Céline Dion, who won the contention for Switzerland successful 1988, delivered a pre-recorded message celebrating the "beautiful" instrumentality of the contention to Basel.

These countries qualified from the archetypal semi-final:

• Albania: Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm
• Estonia: Tommy Cash – Espresso Macchiato
• Iceland: VÆB – RÓA
• Netherlands: Claude – C'est La Vie
• Norway: Kyle Alessandro – Lighter
• Poland: Justyna Steczkowska – GAJA
• Portugal: NAPA – Deslocado
• San Marino: Gabry Ponte – Tutta L'Italia
• Sweden: KAJ – Bara Bada Bastu
• Ukraine: Ziferblat – Bird of Pray

The pursuing countries qualified from the 2nd semi-final:

• Armenia: PARG – SURVIVOR
• Austria: JJ – Wasted Love
• Denmark: Sissal – Hallucination
• Finland: Erika Vikman – ICH KOMME
• Greece: Klavdia – Asteromáta
• Israel: Yuval Raphael – New Day Will Rise
• Latvia: Tautumeitas – Bur Man Laimi
• Lithuania: Katarsis – Tavo Akys
• Luxembourg: Laura Thorn – La Poupée Monte Le Son (pictured above)
• Malta: Miriana Conte – SERVING

More than 70 erstwhile Eurovision contestants, including Britain's Mae Muller, person signed an unfastened missive demanding that Israel's nationalist broadcaster KAN beryllium banned from the contest, alleging that it was "complicit successful Israel's genocide against the Palestinians successful Gaza".

Eurovision, which has ever billed itself arsenic non-political, has resisted calls for Israel to beryllium excluded.

Yuval Raphael, Israel's contestant this year, told BBC News she was "expecting" to beryllium booed during her performance.

The inclusion of Israel sparked contention past year, erstwhile its contestant Eden Golan besides faced boos during a rehearsal and thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered extracurricular the venue.

Golan was besides forced to alteration the lyrics of her entry, titled Hurricane, to region references to the deadly attacks by Hamas connected Israel, connected 7 October 2023.

In the final, each participating state is awarded 2 sets of scores - 1 from a assemblage of euphony experts and 1 from fans astir Europe.

Fans get a maximum of 20 votes, formed via telephone call, SMS oregon via the authoritative Eurovision app. They tin ballot for arsenic galore antithetic acts arsenic they like, but votes for your location state are banned.

Once the lines close, each state volition person chosen a "Top 10" of their favourite songs. The astir fashionable opus gets 12 points, the 2nd prime gets 10, and the remainder are scored from 8 to one.

Viewers from countries that don't enactment successful Eurovision besides get a say. Their choices are bundled into a azygous bloc known arsenic the "rest of the satellite vote".