Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025
United by Music
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Date and venue
Final
  • 13 December 2025
Venue Olympic Palace
Tbilisi, Georgia
Organisation
Organiser European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
ESC director Martin Green
Production
Host broadcaster Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB)
Executive producerNatia Mshvenieradze
Participants
Number of entries18
Returning countriesFlag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro
Non-returning countriesFlag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
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         Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2025
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Voting systemThe professional jury of each country awards a set of 12, 10, 8–1 points to 10 songs. Viewers around the world vote for 3 songs, and their votes are distributed proportionally. The votes of the jury and the audience make up 50% of all votes.
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is set to be the 23rd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 13 December 2025 at the Olympic Palace in Tbilisi, Georgia. It is being organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB), which will stage the event after winning the 2024 contest for Georgia with the song "To My Mom" by Andria Putkaradze.

Contents

Broadcasters from eighteen countries will participate in the contest, the largest number of participants since 2021. Azerbaijan, Croatia and Montenegro are returning after absences from recent editions, while Estonia and Germany opted not to participate after doing so the previous year.

Location

Olympic Palace, Tbilisi - host venue of the 2025 contest Olympic Palace (Tbilisi, GEO) 2017.jpg
Olympic Palace, Tbilisi –host venue of the 2025 contest

The 2025 contest will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, following the country's victory at the 2024 contest with the song "To My Mom", performed by Andria Putkaradze. It will be the second time that Georgia hosts the competition, having previously done so in 2017, also in Tbilisi. [1] The selected venue for the contest is the 3,700-seat Olympic Palace, which serves as a venue for indoor sports and concert events and previously hosted the contest in 2017. [2]

Bidding phase and host city selection

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Location of the selected host city (in blue)

Unlike the Eurovision Song Contest, the winning broadcaster of the previous year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest does not automatically receive the right to host the next edition. However, since 2011 (with the exceptions of 2012, 2015, and 2018) it has become customary for winners to take on hosting duties, and since 2019, the winning broadcaster has had the right of first refusal on hosting the following competition. In 2024, French broadcaster France Télévisions was given this right but ultimately opted out of it. [3]

On 16 November 2024, upon her country's victory in the 2024 contest, Tinatin Berdzenishvili  [ ka ], the CEO of the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB), announced that talks would be conducted with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) regarding the hosting of the 2025 contest; [4] soon afterwards, the official Facebook page of the broadcaster's 1TV channel claimed that the 2025 contest would be hosted in Georgia, [5] however, later that same day, the EBU claimed a host for the 2025 edition had not yet been selected and that it would work with "all of [its] members" in order to identify one. [6]

On 4 April 2025, Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS claimed that the contest would take place in Georgia, [7] before rescinding its statement the same day. [8] On 9 April 2025, the Georgian State Procurement Agency published documents stating that the Government of Georgia, the EBU and GPB had jointly agreed to host the contest in Tbilisi on 13 December 2025; [9] this was confirmed by the EBU on 13 May. [10] In May 2025, head of the Georgian government administration Levan Zhorzholiani claimed the contest would be held in the "small hall of the New Sports Palace", [11] identified by the media as the Olympic Palace; [12] this would be reiterated by multiple participating broadcasters at various points between June and September [13] [14] [15] before being confirmed by the EBU on 1 October. [16]

Participants

Eligibility for participation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest requires a national broadcaster with active EBU membership capable of receiving the contest via the Eurovision network and broadcasting it live nationwide. The EBU issues invitations to participate in the contest to all active members.

On 1 October 2025, the EBU announced that 18 countries would participate in the 2025 contest. Azerbaijan, Croatia and Montenegro will return after three, ten and nine-year absences respectively. Meanwhile, Estonia and Germany opted not to participate after doing so the previous year. [16]

Participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 [16]
CountryBroadcasterArtistSongLanguageSongwriter(s)Ref.
Flag of Albania.svg  Albania RTSH Kroni Pula"Fruta perime"Albanian Adrian Hila  [ sv ] [17]
Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia AMPTV [18]
Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan İTV YağmurTBA November 2025 [19] [20]
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia HRT Marino Vrgoč [21]
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus CyBC Rafaella Panteli and Christos Georgiou"Away"
  • Andy Lys
  • Christopher Wortley
  • Greig Watts
  • Hannah Brine
  • Paul Drew
  • Peter Barringer
 [22]
Flag of France.svg  France France Télévisions Lou Deleuze"Ce monde"French
  • John Claes
  • Jonathan Thyssens
  • Linh  [ fr ]
 [23]
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia GPB TBD October 2025 [24] [25]
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland TG4 TBA 19 October 2025 [26] [27] [28]
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy RAI Leonardo Giovannangeli"Rockstar" [29]
Flag of Malta.svg  Malta PBS TBA October 2025 [30] [31]
Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro RTCG Asja Džogović [32]
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands AVROTROS Meadow"Freeze"Dutch, English
  • Daniel van der Molen
  • Elke Tiel
  • Stas Swaczyna
 [33]
Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia MRT Nela Mančeska [34]
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland TVP Marianna Kłos [35]
Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal RTP Inês Gonçalves
 [36] [37]
Flag of San Marino.svg  San Marino SMRTV Martina Crv"Beyond the Stars"
 [38] [39] [40]
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain RTVE Gonzalo Pinillos"Érase una vez (Once Upon a Time)"Spanish, English
  • Alejandro Martínez
  • David Parejo
  • Gonzalo Pinillos
  • Luis Ramiro
[41] [42]
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Suspilne Sofiia Nersesian"Motanka" (Мотанка)Ukrainian, English Svitlana Tarabarova [43]

Production

The Government of Georgia has allocated ₾ 8.1 million (€ 2.6 million) to hosting the contest from its reserve fund. [44]

The 2025 contest is set to be the first one in the history of the event without accredited press. [45]

Slogan, visual and stage design

In August 2025, ESC director Martin Green revealed that "United by Music", the permanent slogan of the Eurovision Song Contest since November 2023, would also be adopted by the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in order to make the two events "come within the same brand family". [46]

On 9 September 2025, the EBU released a revamped version of the generic logo, which is modeled after the revamped logo of the adult contest that is set to be introduced in its 2026 edition, designed by the Sheffield-based branding studio Pals. [47] [48] On 1 October 2025, GPB unveiled the theme art and stage design for the 2025 contest. The visual identity features a custom wordmark of the slogan, combining plain uppercase lettering with handwritten characters that "that echo the playful creativity of the young artists representing their countries", with threads of vibrant colours in the background. The stage was inspired by the mountains, castles, fortified villages and towers of Georgia's landscape, with its central element being a depiction of the doli. [16]

Broadcasts

All participating broadcasters may choose to have on-site or remote commentators providing insight and voting information to their local audience. The European Broadcasting Union has also, in the past, provided international live streams of the contest through their official YouTube channel with no commentary.

Confirmed broadcasters and commentators
CountryBroadcasterChannel(s)Commentator(s)Ref.
Flag of France.svg France France Télévisions France 4 TBA [49]
Flag of Italy.svg Italy RAI Rai 2 Mario Acampa  [ it ] [50]
Flag of North Macedonia.svg North Macedonia MRT MRT 1, MRT 5  [ mk; es ]TBA [51]
Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal RTP RTP1, TBACarina Jorge and Nuno Galopim  [ pt ] [37]
Flag of Spain.svg Spain RTVE La 1 TBA [52]
Confirmed broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
CountryBroadcasterChannel(s)Commentator(s)Ref.
Flag of Germany.svg Germany ARD/ZDF Kika TBA [53] [54]
Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania LRT TBA [55]

See also

References

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