Eurovision Song Contest Betting 2023

• The original favourites Ukraine have been knocked from the top of the Eurovision Odds by Sweden. 
• The United Kingdom will hope to build on an excellent second place last year.
• Eurovision 2023 is coming to the UK, and the city of Liverpool will host the contest.  

Eurovision Song Contest 2023 31 Mar @ 10:45 - Win Contest
Sweden	1.80
Finland	5.00
Ukraine	6.50
Norway	13.00
Spain	15.00
Israel	23.00
Czechia	23.00
Austria	34.00
United Kingdom	41.00
France	51.00
Armenia	56.00
Italy	67.00
Switzerland	81.00
Georgia	91.00
Serbia	101.00
Germany	101.00
Slovenia	126.00
Croatia	126.00
Moldova	126.00
Australia	126.00
Netherlands	151.00
Estonia	151.00
Poland	201.00
Iceland	251.00
Portugal	251.00
Azerbaijan	251.00
Denmark	251.00
Cyprus	251.00
Ireland	251.00
Greece	251.00
Lithuania	251.00
San Marino	251.00
Latvia	251.00
Malta	251.00
Belgium	251.00
Romania	301.00
Albania	301.00

The Kalush Orchestra - Eurovision Winners Last Year

Most major bookmakers are offering betting odds on which Countries will win ESC. 

You can also place bets on the Eurovision Semi-Finals and a host of other ESC betting markets. 

 We have listed the type of bets you are likely to find when you are considering placing a Eurovision bet. 

• Eurovision Song Contest Winner

The most popular betting market available for this would be to predict the Eurovision Song Contest winner, the odds will be available a long time before May, so you can take advantage of early odds.

Make sure you watch the individual countries' selection process, you can then find a catchy song that could do well in the contest proper. 

• Eurovision Song Contest Each Way Betting 

The best betting sites that offer Eurovision odds will also offer 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and sometimes 5th place betting. This means if your selection finishes at the top of the leaderboard you will get paid out. 

You will need to check how many places each of the best betting sites are paying.  

• Eurovision Semi-Final Betting

There will be two Semi-Finals on Tuesday and Thursday ahead of the Saturday Eurovision contest.

Naturally, you tend to find those countries who are towards the head of the betting to win Eurovision in the Saturday Final are shortish prices to win their Semi-Final.

Betting odds will be available in both contests.  

• Eurovision Last Place Betting

The dreaded nil points that many countries have experienced over the years mean you can profit by selecting the worst Eurovision song! 

• Eurovision Country v Country

Will the UK finish with more points than Ireland? Will Sweden finish higher than Norway and Finland? Which Balkan country will finish in the highest position? 

Top Balkan Country

• Albania
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Greece
• North Macedonia
• Romania
• Serbia
• Slovenia
• North Macedonia 

Top Baltic Country

• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania 

Top Scandinavian Country

• Denmark
• Finland
• Norway
• Sweden

UK vs Ireland History: In the last 8 years, Ireland has only qualified for the Eurovision final once. The UK as one of the big 5 has competed in them all.

• Eurovision Top 5 Finish

Can you find a country to make the top 5?

• Eurovision Top 10 Finish

Can you find a country to make the top 10?

• Eurovision Big 5 Finish

The Big 5 who automatically qualify for the final are the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and Germany, which of these will finish in the highest position?

• Eurovision Jury Winner

Which country will the expert jury select as the winner, and will it differ from the Tele Vote?

• Eurovision Tele Vote Winner

Will European voters choose a different winner than Jurys, you can place a bet on the Televote winner. 

If you do not have an active online betting account, then head over to our betting sites section where you will see a list of bookmakers available in the UK. 

We have in-depth reviews so you can see what other users think of them before deciding, or head over to the free bets page where you can see the list of welcome offers currently available from all UK betting sites. 

Alternatively, most bookmakers have betting apps you simply need to go to your favourite betting app and head to the TV & Specials section in the menu, then select Eurovision Betting. 

There is nothing complicated about betting on the ESC, there is a range of betting markets that should be able to accommodate most of us who want to place a Eurovision bet. 

Once you are at the betting site just follow the instructions below:

• Click on your selection.
• This will open up the bet slip, at which point you will see confirmation of the betting odds being offered
• Now you choose your stake - most betting sites will show you how much you can expect to have returned if your prediction is correct.
• If you are happy, simply hit, PLACE BET, to confirm your selection, stake, and bet.
• You will be given a receipt for your bet and it will appear in your open bets in your account details.
• Then it's just a matter of waiting to see which country becomes the Eurovision winner. 

The betting odds for The Eurovision Song Contest are available as soon as the previous year's contest is over. The bookmakers do not even know the songs yet but they still price up the country's chances. 

We follow all the odds and here is a round-up of the Eurovision Betting News from our OLBG News feed.   

24th March 2023

17th March 2023

The Eurovision Song Contest betting market continues to change this week with the United Kingdom's entrant Mae Muller going from 33/1 to 25/1 in the past week. 25-year-old Muller was announced as the UK's entry with her song 'I Wrote A Song' instantly seeing the UK drift in the odds with UK betting sites to as big as 33/1. This week though has seen the position draw take place to see when she will perform and it turns out she will be the final act of the night in 26th place. Bet365 instantly cut Muller's odds into 25/1 following this news with a late position meaning that her performance will be fresh on the mind when voting opens

9th March 2023

The long wait has ended on Thursday morning with United Kingdom's entrant for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest officially being announced. 25-year-old Mae Muller will represent the UK at Eurovision with her track I Wrote A Song hoping to follow in the footsteps of Sam Ryder last year. Bookmakers though have said that this damages the chance of the UK winning the song contest with their odds drifting from 10/1 to 33/1 overnight. Bet365 now say there's just a 2.9% chance that Muller and the UK wins Eurovision this year according to their betting odds.

2nd March 2023

Sweden are the new favourites for this year's Eurovision Song Contest with bookies moving them into 5/4 to win the event in May ahead of their Melodifestivalen event. Melodifestivalen will choose who will represent Sweden at the Song Contest and former winner Loreen looking like representing her country again. Loreen's performance in Heat 4 of Melodifestivalen put her straight into next week's final of the show and tied in with Paddy Power slashing Sweden's odds of winning.

14th February 2023

Betting continues for this year's Eurovision Song Contest with bookies moving Italy into third favourite to win after a busy week for their Eurovision hopes. Italy hosted their Sanremo 2023 Festival last week with Marco Mengoni winning the chance to represent his country again at Eurovision. This instantly caused bookmakers to move their odds down with William Hill making Italy just 7/1 to win this year's Eurovision making them the new third favourites in the market.

7th February 2023

The 2023 Festival Di Sanremo takes place this week with the first Semi-Final getting underway this evening and bookies are giving odds on who will win. Marco Mengoni is 2/1 to win Festival Di Sanremo and represent Italy at Eurovision for the second time after previously being their entrant back in 2013. Mengoni finished in 7th place that year and will be hoping to represent his country and go one better this year in the United Kingdom. William Hill says there's a 33% chance that Mengoni wins Festival Di Sanremo with the final set to take place on Saturday.

2nd February 2023

Talk around the Eurovision Song Contest ramps up this week with just three months remaining until the big show takes place in the UK. Bookies have constantly been chopping and changing the betting odds over who will win the show and the UK themselves have drifted out from 2/1 to as big as 10/1 to win now. We still don't know who the UK's entrant will be for this year's Eurovision but what we do know is William Hill now give them an implied probability of winning of just 9%.

1st February 2023

Eurosong 2023 is Ireland's national format to pick who will represent them at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest later this year. Six finalists will compete against each other at Eurosong 2023 and it is Connolly who is the 15/8 favourite with bookies to win Eurosong and represent Ireland. The 20-year-old singer Jennifer Connolly, known by her stage name Connolly, is given a 34% chance of winning Eurosong according to William Hill's latest odds.

22nd December 2022

Betting continues around the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest and the United Kingdom are the best odds that they've been in a long time to win the contest. Bookies make them 6/1 in the betting to win the whole thing after being chosen to host the show due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. 2022 entrant Sam Ryder came second in this year's Eurovision with his song Spaceman becoming the highest-scoring UK Eurovision entry ever with 466 points. William Hill's latest betting odds make Ukraine still the 2/1 favourites to win the show for the second year in a row.

11th December 2022

Mel Giedroyc is the latest addition to the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 Host betting market with bookies making her 2/1 to be a host next year. Giedroyc has history with Eurovision after hosting the 'You Decide' event for the 2019 UK entrant as well as winning the 2020 Isolation Song Contest during lockdown. Smarkets now say that there's a 33.3% chance of Giedroyc hosting next year's Eurovision with a number of hosts expected for the event.

1st December 2022

Betting is available around the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest and bookies make it 8/11 that Ireland qualifies for next year's event. Ireland has qualified once in the last 10 years and it's hoped that with the Song Contest being so close to home next year that they will do so this year. At the current odds, there's a 57% chance that Ireland does go through to the finals of Eurovision in 2023. There are also odds of Ireland winning next year's Song Contest with a 40/1 chance of doing so according to Betway's latest odds.

18th October 2022

Ukrainian Eurovision commentator Timur Miroshnychenko is the 8/13 bookies' favourite to host next year's Eurovision Song Contest. Miroshnychenko is a new entrant in the market and has gone straight into favourite with the UK hosting the famous show due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. This has made Smarkets make him the favourite as he may well be a big representative for his country at the Song Contest.

• Songs sung in English do best. 
• Ireland always takes the contest seriously and regularly chooses a competitive song. The Irish as well as winning the most times have also come second four times. 
• Russia has a great record with one win, four-second places, and four third places from just 22 entries. In the last seven years, the Russian entry has finished,3 DNQ, 3, 2, 7, 5, 2.
• The Scandinavian countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden have collectively won ESC six times since 2000. 
• The UK in recent years had performed terribly with no top-ten finishes in the last 10 years before Sam Ryder did the country proud with his 2nd place. 
• Israel punches above their weight with four wins in ESC history. 
• Songs at the start of the final perform poorly compared to the middle and end of the contest, presumably because voters can recall those later songs more easily. 
• The last country to win back-to-back Eurovision Song Contests was Ireland in 1994. 

Eurovision Winners Running Order

• The Eurovision Song contest has been running since 1956.
• In the first Eurovision Song Contest, 7 countries participated in Lugano, Switzerland. 
• The Swiss hosts beat songs from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
• You can see above and below how each country has fared at Eurovision.
  
  

Country	Eurovision Wins	Year Of Eurovision Win
Ireland	7	1970, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994,1 996
Sweden	6	1974, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2012, 2015
France	5	1958, 1960, 1962, 1969, 1977
Luxembourg	5	1961, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1983
Netherlands	5	1957, 1959, 1969, 1975, 2019
UK	5	1967, 1969, 1976, 1981, 1997
Israel	4	1978, 1979, 198, 2018
Norway	3	1985, 1995, 2009
Denmark	3	1963, 2000, 2013
Italy	3	1964, 1990, 2021
Austria	2	1966, 2014
Germany	2	1982, 2010
Spain	2	1968, 1969
Switzerland	2	1956, 1988
Ukraine	3	2004, 2016, 2022
Azerbaijan	1	2011
Belgium	1	1986
Estonia	1	2001
Finland	1	2006
Greece	1	2005
Latvia	1	2002
Monaco	1	1971
Turkey	1	2017
Portugal	1	2017
Russia	1	2008
Serbia	1	2007
Yugoslavia	1	1989

Year	Artist	Eurovision Winning Song	Winning Country
2022	The Kalush Orchestra	Stefania	Ukraine
2021	Maneskin	Zitti E Buoni	Itay
2019	Duncan Laurence	Arcade	Netherlands
2018	Netta	Toy	Israel
2017	Salvador Sobral	Amar Pelos Dois	Portugal
2016	Jamala	1994	Ukraine
2015	Mans Zelmerlow	Heroes	Sweden
2014	Conchita Wurst	Rise Like A Phoenix	Austria
2013	Emmelie de Forest	Only Teardrops	Denmark
2012	Loreen	Euphoria	Sweden
2011	Ell & Nikki	Running Scared	Azerbaijan
2010	Lena	Satellite	Germany
2009	Alexander Rybak	Fairytale	Norway
2008	Dima Bilan	Believe	Russia
2007	Marija Serifovic	Molitva	Serbia
2006	Lordi	Hard Rock Hallelujah	Finland
2005	Helena Paparizou	My Number One	Greece
2004	Ruslana	Wild Dances	Ukraine
2003	Sertab Erener	Every Way That I Can	Turkey
2002	Marie N	I Wanna	Latvia
2001	Tanel Padar, Dave Benton, 2 XL	Everybody	Estonia
2000	Olsen Brothers	Fly On The Wings Of Love	Denmark
1999	Charlotte Nilsson	Take Me To Your Heaven	Sweden

Solo singers have traditionally performed the best when it comes to the Eurovision Song Contest.

In the last 10 years, there has been only two winning groups (Maneskin 2021, The Kalush Orchestra 2022) and one duo (Ell & Nikki 2011). 

The breakdown is as follows: 

Year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Winner	Germany	Azerbaijan	Sweden	Denmark	Austria	Sweden
Artists	Lena	Ell & Nikki	Loreen	Emmelie de Forest	Conchita Wurst	Mans Zelmerlow
Gender	Female	Female & Male	Female	Female	Non/Binary	Male
Format	Solo	Duo	Solo	Solo	Solo	Solo

Year	2016	2017	2018	2019	2021	2022
Winner	Ukraine	Portugal	Israel	Netherlands	Italy	Ukraine
Artists	Jamala	Salvador Sobral	Netta	Duncan Lawrence	Maneskin	The Kalush Orchestra
Gender	Female	Male	Female	Male	3x Male 1x Female	Male
Format	Solo	Solo	Solo	Solo	Group	Group

Eurovision Entry	Winners
Solo Singer	51
Group	10
Duo	4

The dreaded Nil Points have been received on 37 occasions by a range of Eurovision artists. 

Austria and Norway lead the nil points with 4 of their songs each receiving no points whatsoever. 

• Over the years the Eurovision format and voting system have been rejigged numerous times to try and counter tactical voting. 
• Each country has two sets of votes, one from the broadcaster's jury and one from televoting by viewers in those countries. 
• A jury in each country: 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
• Televote in each country: 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.  

The UK has faded into Eurovision also-rans for the last 20 years. As you can view in the table below the UK last won Eurovision in 1997. 

A mixture of poor songs from inexperienced artists has not helped, but of more significance may be the expansion of Eurovision countries, many with close ties to other countries.

However, the UK cannot get away from the fact that in the last 11 years, we have finished 26th, 25th twice and 24th three times. 

Our best performance in recent times was in 2009 when Jade Ewan sang Its My Time and in 2022 with Spaceman by Sam Ryder. 

Eurovision Year	Winning  UK Artist	Winning Song
1997	Katrina And The Waves	Love Shine A Light
1981	Bucks Fizz	Making Your Mind Up
1976	Brotherhood Of Man	Save Your Kisses For Me
1969	Lulu	Boom Bang A Bang
1967	Sandie Shaw	Puppet On A String