Ukraine wins Eurovision Song Contest 2022

The Grand Final of Eurovision Song Contest 2022 took place live from Turin, Italy, where 25 countries competed for the trophy, and the honor of hosting next year's Eurovision Song Contest.

After 4 hours of music, performances, entertainment and excitement, Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine was crowned as the winner of the 65th Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Stefania".

The televoters from 28 of 39 countries gave 12 points to Ukraine. With 439 points from televoting it was the most points a country has ever received from the public. Ukraine was just 29 points from the highest possible score from the televoting.

After Kalush Orchestra performed their song, they addressed the millions of viewers who watched them saying: "Save Mariupol, Save Ukraine and Help Azovstal".

It's the third time Ukraine wins Eurovision – Last time was just six years ago at Eurovision Song Contest 2016 where Jamala won with "1944".

Ukraine was the bookmakers' clear favorite to win Eurovision 2022. Eurovisionworld's visitors also predicted Ukraine as winner in our Eurovision Poll.

Eurovision 2022 Results

United Kingdom won the juries, but with Ukraine's 439 points from the public voters, they won by a clear margin of 165 points to UK.

Check out the detailed results, voting and points from Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

The United Kingdom came home with the 16th second place to their collection: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1998 and now 2022!

Kalush Orchestra's road to victory

8 October 2021

Ukrainian selection announced

The Ukrainiain broadcaster UA:PBC decided to independently hold a national selection after its three-year cooperation with STB came to an end. This collaboration was responsible for the latest national selection productions that saw Go_A (Ukraine 2021) or Maruv (Vidbir 2019) come out as winners.

17 January

Kalush Orchestra announces their participation in Vidbir 2022

The Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC reveals the 27 artists who will compete in Vidbir 2022. Among them is Kalush Orchestra.

24 January

Kalush among the eight finalists

Ukraine's public broadcaster UA:PBC determined the final eight artists competing to represent the country at Eurovision 2022. For the first time is the song title of Kalush Orchestra's song revealed: "Stefania"

12 February

Alina Pash wins Vidbir

Alina Pash wins the Ukrainian national selection Vidbir 2022 with the song "Tini Zabutykh Predkiv"

16 February

Alina Pash withdraws

Alina Pash announces that she withdraws from the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 after accusations that she visited Crimea illegally in 2015

22 February

Kalush Orchestra to Eurovision 2022

The Ukrainian broadcaster confirms that Kalush Orchestra will be representing Ukraine at Eurovision 2022 with the song "Stefania" after Alina Pash's had to withdraw

24 February

Russia invades Ukraine

In the early hours of the 24th of February, Russian forces violate Ukrainian territory and starts a full scale invasion of Ukraine!

The same day, the Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC takes action, and asks the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to suspend Russia's membership of the union and exclude Russia from Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

But EBU's cowardly response is, that they still welcome Russia at Eurovision Song Contest 2022!

25 February

Russia kicked out of Eurovision 2022

It took the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) 36 hours before realising that having the aggressor Russia participating in this year's Eurovision wasn't acceptable.

It came after huge pressure from some of its most prominent broadcasters.

In a statement from EBU the word "war" was not mentioned. Instead they called the war as "the unprecedented crisis in Ukraine". Anyway: Russia was kicked out of Eurovision Song Contest 2022

26 February

Ukraine leads the bookmaker's odds

Ukraine climbs on top of the bookmakers' favourites to win Eurovision 2022

29 April

11th in the OGAE poll

The Eurovision OGAE fan clubs gives Ukraine an 11th place in the yearly poll.

4 May

Rehearsals in Turin

After Ukraine's rehearsal in Turin, we reported: "Ukraine is ready for another great result (eventually win the whole thing)"

6 May

Kalush Orchestra: "Any victory, in any aspect, would be very important for Ukraine"

In an interview with Eurovisionworld, the group underlined their situation: Any victory, in any aspect, would be very important for Ukraine

10 May

Semi-final 1: Ukraine qualifies for the Grand Final

Ukraine is among the 10 qualifiers for the Grand Final of Eurovision Song Contest 2022 (It was later revealed that they actually won the first Semi-final)

13 May

Running Order: 12th

The running order in the Grand Final of Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is decided, which places Ukraine as song number 12 out of 25 in the running order.

14 May

Winner of Eurovisionworld's Poll

More than 269,000 of Eurovisionworld's visitors vote in our yearly Eurovision Poll, and decide that Ukraine should win Eurovision 2022.

14 May

KALUSH ORCHESTRA WINS EUROVISION 2022

• 631 points
• 1st in Televoting
• 4th in Jury

Voting

The voting procedure was the same as previous five years. Each country had two sets of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and 12 points to give. One set for each country's jury, and one set for each country's televoting.

• Each of the 40 countries participating in this years Eurovision could vote
• Each country had a national jury who gave one set of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and 12 points
• Each country had televoting which also resulted in a set of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and 12 points
• First the juries points were presented individually by a spokesperson from each country
• Secondly the points from televoting were bundled and given combined
• Televoters and national juries had equal weight in the voting
• The national juries voted the evening before the final (Friday, 13 May) during the second dress-rehearsal
• If two countries have the same points, a combined national televoting and jury result will be calculated only for the purpose of solving tie situations. The best of the two is the song which has obtained points from the highest number of countries from the combined national televoting and jury calculation

Eurovision Song Contest 2022

The 66th Eurovision Song Contest took place on 10, 12 and 14 May 2022. The contest was held in Turin, Italy, and produced by the Italian broadcaster RAI.

• Location: Pala Olimpico, Turin, Italy
• Participants: 40
• Semi-final 1: 10 May 2022 – 17 participants: The 10 best songs qualified to the Grand Final
• Semi-final 2: 12 May 2022 – 18 participants: The 10 best songs qualified to the Grand Final
• Grand Final: 14 May 2022 – 25 participants: Big-5 (Germany, Spain, France, Italy and United Kingdom), 10 best from Semi-Final 1, 10 best from Semi-Final 2