MALMÖ 2024
Eurovision 2024: Who's in which Semi-final?
See the result of the Semi-final draw for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The draw determined what countries will perform in each of the two Semi-finals
SEMI-FINAL 1
7 May 2024
VOTE IN SEMI-FINAL 1:
SEMI-FINAL 2
9 May 2024
VOTE IN SEMI-FINAL 2:
The running order of the Semi-finals will be decided later by Swedish producer SVT and approved by the EBU.
The allocation draw took place on 30 January 2024 in Malmö, and was hosted by Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi.
Facts about the allocation draw
- 37 countries are participating in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
- Six of the countries are pre-qualified for the Grand Final (Big-5 and Sweden).
- The 31 countries were distributed into five allocation draw pots based on the voting pattern between them to avoid too much neighbor voting.
- Israel was pre-assigned to Semi-final 2, after a request from the Israeli broadcaster
- After a country was drawn, a second draw determined whether that country will participate in the first or second part of the Semi-final.
- The six countries pre-qualified for the Grand Final (Big-5 and Sweden) were also drawn to decide which Semi-final these countries will vote in.
- The final running order will be decided later by Swedish producer SVT and approved by the EBU.
Allocation Draw Pots
To ensure fair voting and competition, the 31 semi-finalists were distributed into five Draw Pots, based on the voting pattern to avoid too much neighbor voting:
- Albania, Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland
- Australia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway
- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine
- Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, San Marino
- Belgium, Czechia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Moldova, Poland
How was the draw made?
The draw was divided into two parts:
1) Which pre-qualified countries vote in which Semi-final?
- The first part determined which of the six pre-qualified countries (Winner: Sweden. Big-5: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK) will vote in which of the two Semi-finals.
2) Who's in which Semi-final?
- The second part determined which of the two Semi-finals (and in which half) each country will compete in.
- Israel was pre-assigned to Semi-final 2, after a request from the Israeli broadcaster.
- The first five countries for Semi-final 1 were drawn: From each of the five allocation draw pots, a country was drawn, and after each country, a second draw determined if the country will perform in the first half or in the second half of Semi-final 1.
- The first five countries for Semi-final 2 were then drawn (same recipe as the five for Semi-final 1).
- This continued until each of the 31 countries had been allocated to one of the two Semi-finals.
Host Insignia Exchange
Before the allocation draw, the Host Insignia Exchange took place. Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of Liverpool (Eurovision 2023) handed over the Host City Insignia to Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, Mayor of Malmö.
