The 71st Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Burgas, Bulgaria, with the Grand Final scheduled for Saturday 15 May 2027 at Arena Burgas. The two Semi-Finals will be held on Tuesday 11 May and Thursday 13 May.
It will be Bulgaria’s first time hosting Eurovision, after DARA gave the country its first victory in Vienna with Bangaranga. Not bad for a country that had only just returned to the Contest after sitting out 2023, 2024 and 2025. Burgas was chosen in August 2026 following a host-city process that also involved Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. Burgas and Sofia made the final stage before the Black Sea city got the job. Arena Burgas, opened in 2023, will stage all nine Eurovision shows.
Hosts
The presenters for Eurovision 2027 have not yet been announced. Bulgarian broadcaster BNT will produce the Contest alongside the EBU, with more details about the hosts, production team and wider Eurovision week expected over the coming months.
Tickets
There will once again be nine ticketed shows: the three televised live shows plus six preview performances between Monday 10 May and Saturday 15 May. Anyone wanting to enter the official ticket sale will need to sign up to Eurofan, Eurovision’s free official fan club. Until the sale opens, be extremely suspicious of anybody claiming to have genuine Eurovision 2027 tickets tucked away behind the counter. We’ll update our Eurovision ticket page as soon as there is something useful to tell you.
Tickets are not yet on sale, see this page for on-sale dates in previous years.
Confirmed participants
The complete list of broadcasters taking part in Eurovision 2027 has not yet been announced, but there are already a couple of significant additions.
Canada will make its Eurovision debut, becoming the first completely new country to join the Contest since Australia arrived in 2015. CBC/Radio-Canada became a full EBU member in June 2026 and will compete in the Semi-Finals in Burgas.
North Macedonia is also returning, having last competed in Turin in 2022.
The final line-up is likely to remain a moving target for a while yet, particularly given the continuing disagreement among broadcasters over Israel’s participation.
The Israel question
If anyone hoped Eurovision might get through 2027 without revisiting the argument that dominated 2026, that hope lasted roughly five minutes. It’s a bit rude not to update you on the current state of play, so let’s go…
Five broadcasters stayed away from Vienna 2026 following the EBU’s decision to allow Israel to compete: Ireland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain. Ireland has already confirmed it will remain out in 2027. RTÉ says it will neither participate in nor broadcast the Contest, citing the continuing loss of life and humanitarian situation in Gaza. Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS has also said it will not return in 2027. That does not necessarily settle the Netherlands question completely, as the EBU has been discussing possible participation with Dutch public broadcasting umbrella organisation NPO. At the time of writing, the final positions of Iceland, Slovenia and Spain have yet to produce a complete 2027 line-up.
So yes, the songs are coming. So are several more months of broadcasters issuing carefully worded statements.
New rules for 2027
The rules haven’t so much changed as undergone a couple of tweaks.
The minimum age for Eurovision performers has risen from 16 to 18, meaning every artist must now be at least 18 by the date of their first rehearsal.
The EBU has also clarified its rules around recorded vocals. And that doesn’t mean it’s changed a thing, the rule remains as it always was – even if significant dalliance has been obvious of late. Backing tracks and pre-recorded elements remain perfectly legal, but the lead singer must perform the main melody live and cannot have a recorded vocal doing the heavy lifting for them. This doesn’t mean someone standing at the side of the stage, off-camera, in heavy shadow can’t perform for them while they do their best goldfish act.
There’s also a new formal rule covering what happens after a country wins. Victory no longer automatically guarantees the winning broadcaster will be allowed to host the following year. If armed conflict, serious geopolitical instability or another security issue makes hosting unsafe, the EBU can appoint another broadcaster and country instead.
And yes, that does rather sound like writing down a procedure that should have been written down several years ago.
Budget
No complete public budget for Burgas 2027 has been announced yet. That will almost certainly change as preparations gather pace and the Bulgarian broadcaster, city authorities and government start putting actual numbers against all those stages, security barriers, hotel rooms, buses and enormous pieces of LED screen.
More when we know more.
