Cyprus

Photo: Andrey Andreyev

Countries

Cyprus

Full name

Republic of Cyprus

Capital

Nicosia

Participations

First participation

1981 (Island)

Victories

None

Hosts

Never hosted

Broadcasters

CyBC

Cyprus entered the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1981. By legend, the island is the birthplace of the ancient Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.

As of 2019, Cyprus holds the record for the most times participating in the Eurovision Song Contest without winning. The best placing for the country came in 2018 when Eleni Foureira finished in second place. Before that, fifth place was the best Cyprus had achieved in 1982, 1997 and 2004.

In 2008 Cyprus hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Lemesos.

Rotterdam 2021

Elena Tsagrinou

El Diablo

Participation history

Event	Contestant	Song	Place
Dublin 1981	Island	Monika	69 points 6th
Harrogate 1982	Anna Vishy	Mono I Agapi	85 points 5th
Munich 1983	Stavros and Constantina	I Agapi Akoma Zi	26 points 16th
Luxembourg 1984	Andy Paul	Anna Mari-elena	31 points 15th
Gothenburg 1985	Lia Vishy	To Katalava Arga	15 points 16th
Bergen 1986	Elpida	Tora Zo	4 points 20th
Brussels 1987	Alexia	Aspro Mavro	80 points 7th
Lausanne 1989	Fanny Polymeri and Yiannis Savvidakis	Apopse As Vrethoume	51 points 11th
Zagreb 1990	Haris Anastasiou	Milas Poli	36 points 14th
Rome 1991	Elena Patroclou	S.o.s.	60 points 9th
Malmö 1992	Evridiki	Teriazoume	57 points 11th
Millstreet 1993	Kyriakos Zymboulakis and Demos Van Beke	Mi Stamatas	17 points 19th
Dublin 1994	Evridiki	Ime Anthropos Ke Ego	51 points 11th
Dublin 1995	Alexandros Panayi	Sti Fotia	79 points 9th
Oslo 1996	Constantinos	Móno Gia Más	72 points 9th
Dublin 1997	Chara and Andreas Konstantinou	Mana Mou	98 points 5th
Birmingham 1998	Michael Hajiyanni	Genesis	37 points 11th
Jerusalem 1999	Marlain Angelidou	Tha'nai Erotas	2 points 22nd
Stockholm 2000	Voice	Nomiza	8 points 21st
Tallinn 2002	One	Gimme	85 points 6th
Riga 2003	Stelios Constantas	Feeling Alive	15 points 20th
Istanbul 2004	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute
Semi-Final			149 points 5th
Grand Final			170 points 5th
Kyiv 2005	Constantinos Christoforou	Ela Ela
Grand Final			46 points 18th
Athens 2006	Annet Artani	Why Angels Cry
Semi-Final			57 points 15th
Helsinki 2007	Evridiki	Comme Ci, Comme ça
Semi-Final			65 points 15th
Belgrade 2008	Evdokia Kadi	Femme Fatale
Second Semi-Final			36 points 15th
Moscow 2009	Christina Metaxa	Firefly
Second Semi-Final			32 points 14th
Oslo 2010	Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders	Life Looks Better In Spring
Second Semi-Final			67 points 10th
Grand Final			27 points 21st
Düsseldorf 2011	Christos Mylordos	San Aggelos S’Agapisa
Second Semi-Final			16 points 18th
Baku 2012	Ivi Adamou	La La Love
First Semi-Final			91 points 7th
Grand Final			65 points 16th
Malmö 2013	Despina Olympiou	An Me Thimasai
First Semi-Final			11 points 15th
Vienna 2015	John Karayiannis	One Thing I Should Have Done
Second Semi-Final			87 points 6th
Grand Final			11 points 22nd
Stockholm 2016	Minus One	Alter Ego
First Semi-Final			164 points 8th
Grand Final			96 points 21st
Kyiv 2017	Hovig	Gravity
First Semi-Final			164 points 5th
Grand Final			68 points 21st
Lisbon 2018	Eleni Foureira	Fuego
First Semi-Final			262 points 2nd
Grand Final			436 points 2nd
Tel Aviv 2019	Tamta	Replay
First Semi-Final			149 points 9th
Grand Final			109 points 13th
Rotterdam 2020	Sandro	Running	—
Rotterdam 2021	Elena Tsagrinou	El Diablo
First Semi-Final