The ten winners from the second Semi-Final on stage in Stockholm
Thomas Hanses (EBU)
Tonight in the second show of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast live from the Globe Arena, 18 countries took part in the second Semi-final in order to qualify for the remaining 10 places available in Saturday's final. We now have our ten qualifiers, and they are as follows; in the order they were announced.
Latvia
Georgia
Bulgaria
Australia
Ukraine
Serbia
Poland
Israel
Lithuania
Belgium
Tonight's ten winners will shortly have a press conference where they will also draw their position to be in either the first or second half of the Grand Final.
They now join the 16 countries that had already reached the Grand Final, either by automatic qualification (ie Big 5 plus host nation) or from qualifying from the first Semi-Final, to give us the 26 countries that will compete in Europe's Favourite Tv Show on Saturday.
The Finalists:
(In alphabetical order)
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
France
Georgia
Germany
Hungary
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Poland
Russia
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
The Netherlands
Ukraine
United Kingdom
The exact running order of the 26 songs will be determined later, following the press conference. Stay tuned to Eurovision.tv to find out the information.
The result was determined by a combination of national expert juries and televoting in the 18 competing countries plus Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. The combined scores created the final outcome. In yesterday's Jury Final, the expert juries already determined their votes for the second Semi-Final by watching a live feed of the performances. Televoting took place tonight during the transmission of the live show. If you missed the show, you can still watch it here. Who were your favourites tonight? Tell us below.
