| Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) | |||
| Country |  Greece | |||
| Selection process | Ethnikós Telikós2025 | |||
| Selection date | 30 January 2025 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Asteromata" | |||
| Artist | Klavdia | |||
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| Placement | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (4th, 112 points) | |||
| Final result | 6th, 231 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Greece was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Asteromata", written by Arcade and Klavdia and performed byKlavdia herself. The Greek participating broadcaster, theHellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), organised the national finalEthnikós Telikós2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Greece was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025; it was later selected to perform in position 7. At the end of the show, Greece was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Greece placed 4th out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 112 points. In the final, Greece performed in position 17 and placed 6th out of the 26 performing countries, scoring a total of 231 points and giving Greece its best result since2013.
Prior to the 2025 contest, Greece had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 44 times since its debut in1974.[1] The nation has won the contest once to this point, in2005 with the song "My Number One" performed byHelena Paparizou. Following theintroduction of semi-finals for the2004 contest, it managed to qualify for the final with each of its entries for several years. Between 2004 and 2013, it achieved nine top ten placements in the final. The first entry to not qualify to the final was "Utopian Land" performed byArgo in2016. Its 16th-place finish in the semi-final marked its worst placing at the contest and led to its absence from the final for the first time since 2000, when it did not send an entry. In the2018 contest, it failed to qualify for the second time with "Oniro mou" byYianna Terzi, finishing 14th in the semi-final. After failing to qualify for final for the third time in2023 with "What They Say" byVictor Vernicos, it returned to the final in2024 with "Zari" byMarina Satti, placing 11th with 126 points.[1]
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, theHellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country.[2] ERT's predecessor, theNational Radio Television Foundation (EIRT), debuted in the contest in 1974 and then ERT participated from 1975 until 2013, when the broadcaster was shut down by a government directive. It was replaced firstly with the interimDimosia Tileorasi (DT) and then later by theNew Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT) broadcaster,[2][3][4][5] before reverting to the ERT name by the new government in June 2015.[6][7] The Greek broadcasters over the years had selected their entries both internally and through the national final formatEllinikós Telikós. ERT confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest on 14 September 2024, and announced on 18 September that a national final would be organised for the first time since2017 to select its representative.[8][9]
Ethnikós Telikós 2025 (Εθνικός Τελικός) was the national final developed by ERT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition took place on 30 January 2025 at theChristmas Theater inGalatsi, hosted bySakis Rouvas (who representedGreece in 2004 andin 2009 and hostedEurovision 2006) andHelena Paparizou (who representedGreece in 2001 as part ofAntique, andwon in 2005), withFokas Evangelinos serving as the artistic director.[10][11] The show was broadcast onERT1,ERT World,Second Programme andVoice of Greece, as well as online on ERT'sover-the-top media service ERTFLIX International and the Eurovision Song Contest's officialYouTube channel.[12][13] The national final was watched by 833,000 viewers in Greece with a market share of 18.3%, making it the highest rated show of that day.[14]
On 18 October 2024, ERT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for consideration by the broadcaster by 10 November 2024. Artists were required to be Greek citizens, be permanent residents in Greece or be of Greek descent, while songwriters could be of any nationality and submit up to two songs.[15] 187 songs were received by the submission deadline and a seven-member jury selected twelve entries to participate in the national final alongside three backup entries.[16] The jury consisted ofMichalis Hatzigiannis (composer and singer), Yiannis Dimitriadis (journalist and radio producer), Kleopatra Eleftheriadou (soprano and actress),Stefania (singer), Nektarios Tyrakis (lyricist),Maria Hatzigianni [el] (director) and Dimitris Chorianopoulos (music producer).[17] The competing entries were revealed on 10 January 2025 during theERT1 showProian se eidon; Salina Gavala and Tsiak were disqualified before the scheduled announcement as they had previously made the title of their song public, which went against the rules of the competition, and were replaced by Nafsica Gavrilaki.[10][18] Among the selected competing artists wasConstantinos Christoforou who previously represented Cyprus in1996,2002, and2005, as well as Xannova Xan, who previously representedGreece in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 as Kalli.[19]
Entry disqualified Replacement entry
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
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| Andy Nicolas | "Lost My Way" |
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| Barbz | "Sirens" |
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| Constantinos Christoforou andKostas Karafotis [el] | "Paradeisos"(Παράδεισος) |
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| Dinamiss | "Odyssey" |
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| Evangelia | "Vale"(Βάλε) |
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| Georgina Kalais and John Vlaseros | "High Road" |
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| Klavdia | "Asteromata"(Αστερομάτα) | Arcade |
| Kostas Ageris [el] | "Gi mou"(Γη μου) | Kostas Ageris |
| Nafsica Gavrilaki | "Unhurt Me" |
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| Rikki | "Elevator (Up and Down)" |
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| Salina Gavala [el] and Tsiak | "Tha matho na agapo"(Θα μάθω να αγαπώ) |
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| Thanos Lambrou | "Free Love" |
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| Xannova Xan | "Play It!" |
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| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
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| Panagiotis Tsakalakos | "Money (Priceless Love)" |
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| Stavros Salampasopoulos | "Superhero" |
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The final took place on 30 January 2025, with the running order decided by a draw on 20 January.[20] Twelve songs competed and the winner, "Asteromata" performed byKlavdia, was selected by a combination of public voting conducted through SMS (50%), Greek jury voting (25%) and international jury voting (25%).[21][17] The Greek jury consisted ofMichalis Hatzigiannis (composer and singer), Jenny Melita (journalist and presenter),Fotis Sergoulopoulos [el] (presenter),Margarita Mytilineou [el] (director of the radio stations Ellinikos and Pride) andGiannis Christodoulopoulos [el] (composer), while the international jury consisted ofMartin Holmen [no] (presenter and radio producer atNRK), Olivier Auclair (Head of Entertainment atRTBF), Léa Ivanne (French singer-songwriter and vocal coach), Wilkin William Edmund Roy (director of music programmes at theBBC) and Simona Martorelli (director of International Relations and European Affairs atRAI).[17]
In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show was opened by hosts Sakis Rouvas and Helena Paparizou performing three Eurovision entries accompanied by an orchestra: "Waterloo" (Sweden 1974), "Hold Me Now" (Ireland 1987), and "Krassi, thalassa ke t' agori mou" (Greece 1974), followed by Marina Satti (who representedGreece in 2024) performing her entry "Zari". During the interval, Rouvas performed his entries, "Shake It" (2004) and "This Is Our Night" (2009), Paparizou performed her entries "Die for You" (2001) and "My Number One" (2005), andTheo Evan (who would representCyprus in 2025) performed "Fuego", the song which representedCyprus in 2018.[22]
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | |
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| 1 | Rikki | "Elevator (Up and Down)" | 8 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 7 |
| 2 | Thanos Lambrou | "Free Love" | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 9 |
| 3 | Kostas Ageris | "Gi mou" | 7 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 6 |
| 4 | Andy Nicolas | "Lost My Way" | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| 5 | Klavdia | "Asteromata" | 12 | 8 | 24 | 44 | 1 |
| 6 | Constantinos Christoforou and Kostas Karafotis | "Paradeisos" | 5 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 8 |
| 7 | Georgina Kalais and John Vlaseros | "High Road" | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| 8 | Barbz | "Sirens" | 6 | 10 | 14 | 30 | 3 |
| 9 | Evangelia | "Vale" | 10 | 12 | 20 | 42 | 2 |
| 10 | Dinamiss | "Odyssey" | 4 | 4 | 16 | 24 | 4 |
| 11 | Nafsica Gavrilaki | "Unhurt Me" | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 12 | Xannova Xan | "Play It!" | 2 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 5 |
TheEurovision Song Contest 2025 took place atSt. Jakobshalle inBasel,Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals, which were held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May, with the final on 17 May 2025.[24] During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Greece was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, performing in the first half of the show.[25] At the grand final, Greece, competed at the 17th position[26] and firstly gained 8th place (105 points), on only the final jury votes, and finally 6th place ( + 126 points), with/from the votes of the public.[27]
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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.[29] 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 Greek jury:[30]
| Draw | Country | Televote | |
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| Rank | Points | ||
| 01 |  Australia | 14 | |
| 02 |  Montenegro | 15 | |
| 03 |  Ireland | 12 | |
| 04 |  Latvia | 8 | 3 |
| 05 |  Armenia | 3 | 8 |
| 06 |  Austria | 2 | 10 |
| 07 | Greece | ||
| 08 |  Lithuania | 7 | 4 |
| 09 |  Malta | 5 | 6 |
| 10 |  Georgia | 6 | 5 |
| 11 |  Denmark | 11 | |
| 12 |  Czechia | 13 | |
| 13 |  Luxembourg | 4 | 7 |
| 14 |  Israel | 1 | 12 |
| 15 |  Serbia | 10 | 1 |
| 16 |  Finland | 9 | 2 |
| Draw | Country | Jury | Televote | |||||||
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| Juror A | Juror B | Juror C | Juror D | Juror E | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | ||
| 01 |  Norway | 11 | 23 | 22 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 7 | 4 | |
| 02 | Luxembourg | 22 | 16 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 16 | ||
| 03 |  Estonia | 5 | 19 | 20 | 6 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 8 | |
| 04 | Israel | 16 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 05 | Lithuania | 23 | 25 | 24 | 25 | 21 | 25 | 12 | ||
| 06 |  Spain | 13 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 20 | 16 | 14 | ||
| 07 |  Ukraine | 21 | 22 | 21 | 24 | 10 | 23 | 19 | ||
| 08 |  United Kingdom | 9 | 24 | 15 | 23 | 17 | 20 | 23 | ||
| 09 | Austria | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 10 |
| 10 |  Iceland | 17 | 9 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 17 | 13 | ||
| 11 | Latvia | 25 | 13 | 13 | 22 | 4 | 13 | 21 | ||
| 12 |  Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| 13 | Finland | 10 | 17 | 11 | 21 | 24 | 18 | 15 | ||
| 14 |  Italy | 19 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 11 | |
| 15 |  Poland | 18 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 22 | 24 | 18 | ||
| 16 |  Germany | 4 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| 17 | Greece | |||||||||
| 18 | Armenia | 7 | 5 | 23 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
| 19 |  Switzerland | 20 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 20 | |
| 20 | Malta | 6 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 23 | 11 | 17 | ||
| 21 |  Portugal | 24 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 19 | 24 | ||
| 22 | Denmark | 14 | 8 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 25 | ||
| 23 |  Sweden | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 1 |
| 24 |  France | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| 25 |  San Marino | 15 | 11 | 25 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 22 | ||
| 26 |  Albania | 12 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
