List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international song competition, held every year by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956. This page is a list of people who have acted as presenters of the contest.

Petra Mede, presenter of the 2013, 2016 and 2024 contests

Since 1988, it has been the norm to have at least two presenters for the contest. All contests before 1978, while only three after 1988 (i.e. the 1993, 1995 and 2013 contests), have had one presenter. The 1999 contest was the first to feature three presenters, a method that has been used most often since 2010. The contests from 2018 to 2021 all had four presenters each.

Katie Boyle holds the record for the highest number of contests hosted, with four editions (in 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974),^[1][2] followed by Petra Mede with three editions (2013, 2016 and 2024) and a special (Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits in 2015);^[2] including the semi-finals, Mede is to date the person who has hosted the most Eurovision broadcasts, with ten.^[3] The only other person to have hosted the contest more than once is Jacqueline Joubert (1959 and 1961).^[2]

Presenters

  Contest cancelled

Year	Presenter(s)	Ref
1956	Lohengrin Filipello	[4]
1957	Anaid Iplicjian	[5]
1958	Hannie Lips	[6]
1959	Jacqueline Joubert	[7]
1960	Katie Boyle	[8]
1961	Jacqueline Joubert	[9]
1962	Mireille Delannoy	[10]
1963	Katie Boyle	[11]
1964	Lotte Wæver	[12]
1965	Renata Mauro	[13]
1966	Josiane Shen	[14]
1967	Erica Vaal	[15]
1968	Katie Boyle	[16]
1969	Laurita Valenzuela	[17]
1970	Willy Dobbe	[18]
1971	Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir	[19]
1972	Moira Shearer	[20]
1973	Helga Guitton	[21]
1974	Katie Boyle	[22]
1975	Karin Falck	[23]
1976	Corry Brokken	[24]
1977	Angela Rippon	[25]
1978	Denise Fabre and Léon Zitrone	[26]
1979	Yardena Arazi and Daniel Pe'er	[27]
1980	Marlous Fluitsma	[28]
1981	Doireann Ní Bhriain	[29]
1982	Jan Leeming	[30]
1983	Marlene Charell	[31]
1984	Désirée Nosbusch	[32]
1985	Lill Lindfors	[33]
1986	Åse Kleveland	[34]
1987	Viktor Lazlo	[35]
1988	Michelle Rocca and Pat Kenny	[36]
1989	Lolita Morena and Jacques Deschenaux	[37]
1990	Helga Vlahović and Oliver Mlakar	[38]
1991	Gigliola Cinquetti and Toto Cutugno	[39]
1992	Lydia Capolicchio and Harald Treutiger	[40]
1993	Fionnuala Sweeney	[41]
1994	Cynthia Ní Mhurchú and Gerry Ryan	[42]
1995	Mary Kennedy	[43]
1996	Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket	[44]
1997	Carrie Crowley and Ronan Keating	[45]
1998	Ulrika Jonsson and Terry Wogan	[46]
1999	Dafna Dekel, Sigal Shachmon and Yigal Ravid	[47]
2000	Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin	[48]
2001	Natasja Crone Back and Søren Pilmark	[49]
2002	Annely Peebo and Marko Matvere	[50]
2003	Marie N and Renārs Kaupers	[51]
2004	Meltem Cumbul and Korhan Abay	[52]
2005	Maria Efrosinina and Pavlo Shylko	[53]
2006	Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas	[54]
2007	Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko Leppilampi	[55]
2008	Jovana Janković and Željko Joksimović	[56]
2009	Natalia Vodianova and Andrey Malahov (semi-finals) Alsou and Ivan Urgant (final)	[57]
2010	Nadia Hasnaoui, Haddy N'jie and Erik Solbakken	[58]
2011	Anke Engelke, Judith Rakers and Stefan Raab	[59]
2012	Leyla Aliyeva, Nargiz Birk-Petersen and Eldar Gasimov	[60]
2013	Petra Mede	[61]
2014	Lise Rønne, Nikolaj Koppel and Pilou Asbæk	[62]
2015	Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler, Arabella Kiesbauer and Conchita Wurst	[63]
2016	Petra Mede and Måns Zelmerlöw	[64]
2017	Oleksandr Skichko, Volodymyr Ostapchuk and Timur Miroshnychenko	[65]
2018	Sílvia Alberto, Daniela Ruah, Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela	[66]
2019	Bar Refaeli, Erez Tal, Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub	[67]
2020	Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit	[68]
2021	Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley, Jan Smit and Nikkie de Jager	[69]
2022	Alessandro Cattelan, Laura Pausini and Mika	[70]
2023	Alesha Dixon, Hannah Waddingham, Julia Sanina (all shows) and Graham Norton (final)	[71]
2024	Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman	[72]
2025	Hazel Brugger, Sandra Studer (all shows) and Michelle Hunziker (final)	[73]

Green room hosts

Year	Presenter(s)	Ref
1976	Hans van Willigenburg [nl]
1980
2002	Tiina Kimmel and Kirke Ert [et]
2003	Ilze Jaunalksne and Dīvs Reiznieks
2004	Sertab Erener (final)
2005	Ruslana and Wladimir Klitschko (final)
2007	Krisse Salminen (final)
2008	Kristina Radenković and Branislav Katić
2009	Dmitry Shepelev	[74]
2013	Eric Saade (final)	[75]
2015	Conchita Wurst
2017	Timur Miroshnychenko
2018	Filomena Cautela	[76]

Online host

Year	Presenter(s)	Ref
2020	Nikkie de Jager	[77]
2021	Nikkie de Jager	[78]

Special events

Year	Event	Presenter(s)	Ref
1981	Songs of Europe	Rolf Kirkvaag and Titten Tei	[79]
1993	Kvalifikacija za Millstreet	Tajda Lekše [sl]	[80][81]
2005	Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest	Katrina Leskanich and Renārs Kaupers	[82]
2015	Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits	Petra Mede and Graham Norton	[83]
2020	Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light	Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit	[84]

Presenters born outside the host country

• Katie Boyle, born in Florence, Italy, to an Italian-Russian father and a British-Australian mother
• Mireille Delannoy, born in France
• Helga Guitton, born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
• Léon Zitrone, born in Petrograd, Russian Empire (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
• Lill Lindfors, born in Helsinki, Finland
• Åse Kleveland, born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother
• Viktor Lazlo, born in Lorient, France
• Fionnuala Sweeney, born in Belfast, United Kingdom
• Ulrika Jonsson, born in Sollentuna, Sweden
• Terry Wogan, born in Limerick, Ireland
• Maria Menounos, born in Medford, Massachusetts, United States, to Greek parents
• Nadia Hasnaoui, born in Morocco to a Moroccan father and a Norwegian mother
• Anke Engelke, born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, to German parents
• Katrina Leskanich, born in Topeka, Kansas, United States
• Graham Norton, born in Clondalkin, Ireland
• Daniela Ruah, born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to Portuguese parents
• Mika, born in Beirut, Lebanon
• Julia Sanina, born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
• Hazel Brugger, born in San Diego, California, United States, to a Swiss father and a German mother

Presenters who had formerly competed at Eurovision

• Corry Brokken, winner for the Netherlands in 1957, also represented the country in 1956 and 1958
• Yardena Arazi, represented Israel in 1976 as part of Chocolate, Menta, Mastik and in 1988
• Lill Lindfors, represented Sweden in 1966 alongside Svante Thuresson
• Åse Kleveland, represented Norway in 1966
• Gigliola Cinquetti, winner for Italy in 1964 and runner-up in 1974
• Toto Cutugno, winner for Italy in 1990
• Dafna Dekel, represented Israel in 1992
• Katrina Leskanich, winner for the United Kingdom in 1997 as part of Katrina and the Waves
• Renārs Kaupers, represented Latvia in 2000 as part of Brainstorm
• Marie N, winner for Latvia in 2002
• Sakis Rouvas, represented Greece in 2004 and in 2009
• Željko Joksimović, represented Serbia and Montenegro in 2004 alongside the Ad Hoc Orchestra, and Serbia in 2012
• Alsou, represented Russia in 2000
• Stefan Raab, represented Germany in 2000
• Eldar Gasimov, winner of for Azerbaijan in 2011
• Måns Zelmerlöw, winner for Sweden in 2015
• Edsilia Rombley, represented the Netherlands in 1998 and in 2007
• Sandra Studer, represented Switzerland in 1991

Presenters who resigned

• Chaim Topol (1979)^[85]
• Rene Medvešek and Dubravka Marković [sr] (1990)
• Ruslana, winner of the 2004 contest (2005)^[86]
• Yana Churikova (2009)^[87]

Presenters' costume designers

Year	Costume designers	Ref.
1969	Carmen Mir [es]	[88]
1984	Thomas Heurich	[89]
1985	Christer Lindarw	[90]
1987	Thierry Mugler	[91]
2001	Isabell Kristensen	[92]
2002	Aarne Niit and Katrin Kuldma	[93]
2007	Erika Turunen	[94]
2013	Jean-Paul Gaultier	[95]
2014	Ole Yde	[96]
2015	Ariane Rhomberg	[97]
2016	Lars Wallin, Ida Lanto and Valerie Aflalo	[98]
2017	Luvi, Indposhiv, Lake Studio and Burenina	[99]
2019	Alon Livne, Galia Lahav, Vivi Bellaish, Inbal Dror and Dana Harel	[100]
2020	Diek Pothoven	[101]
2021	Diek Pothoven	[102]
2022	Pierpaolo Piccioli, Alberta Ferretti, Rebecca Baglini, Alessandro Vigilante, Giorgio Armani and Donatella Versace	[103][104]
2025	Kevin Germanier [fr]	[105]

Running order and allocation draw presenters

Prior to each year's contest, a series of draws have been held to determine differing facets of the contest's production, which typically are presided over by one or more presenters. Historically, a random drawing of lots was held prior to each year's contest to determine the order in which participating countries would perform in the final, and since 2004 in the semi-finals; this was abolished in 2013, when the running order began to be determined by the contest producers.^[106]

A semi-final allocation draw has been held since 2008, to determine which countries perform in which of the two semi-finals, as well as in which semi-final the automatic finalists have voting rights. The semi-finalist countries are divided into pots based on historical voting patterns, and countries in each pot are then split equally between the two semi-finals.^[107] During this draw, the countries are also assigned to perform in either the first or second half of the show; the exact running order is then determined at a later date.^[108]

Year	Presenter(s)	Ref
1973	Jacques Harvey and Helga Guitton	[109]
1992	Carola Häggkvist	[110]
1993	Linda Martin and Pat Kenny	[111]
1994	Niamh Kavanagh and Fionnuala Sweeney	[112][113]
1996	Christian Borch	[114]
1997	Eimear Quinn and Mary Kennedy	[115]
1998	Katrina Leskanich and Terry Wogan	[116][117]
1999	Meni Pe'er [he]	[118][better source needed]
2002	Tanel Padar and Dave Benton	[119]
2003	Marie N and Renārs Kaupers	[120]
2004	Meltem Cumbul and Korhan Abay	[121]
2005	Pavlo Shylko and Wladimir Klitschko	[citation needed]
2006	Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas	[122]
2007	Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko Leppilampi	[citation needed]
2008	Jovana Janković and Željko Joksimović	[citation needed]
2009	Yana Churikova	[citation needed]
2010	Peter Svaar [no]	[123]
2011	Judith Rakers and Sabine Heinrich	[124]
2012	Leyla Aliyeva and Nazim Huseynov	[125]
2013	Pernilla Månsson Colt and Josefine Sundström	[126]
2014	Tine Gøtzsche [da] and Ulla Essendrop	[127]
2015	Kati Bellowitsch and Andi Knoll	[128]
2016	Alexandra Pascalidou and Jovan Radomir	[129]
2017	Timur Miroshnychenko and Nika Konstantinova	[130]
2018	Sílvia Alberto and Filomena Cautela	[131]
2019	Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub	[132]
2021[a]	Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit	[108][133]
2022	Carolina Di Domenico and Mario Acampa [it]	[134][135]
2023	AJ Odudu and Rylan Clark	[136]
2024	Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi	[137]
2025	Jennifer Bosshard and Jan van Ditzhuijzen	[138]

Opening ceremony presenters

Year	Presenter(s)	Ref
2006	Zeta Makrypoulia and Giorgos Kapoutzidis	[139]
2012	Leyla Aliyeva and Nargiz Birk-Petersen	[140]
2013	Pernilla Månsson Colt and Kodjo Akolor	[141]
2014	Bryan Rice, Abdel Aziz Mahmoud [da], Ulla Essendrop and Peter Falktoft [da]	[142]
2015	Kati Bellowitsch and Andi Knoll	[143]
2016	Jovan Radomir and Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson	[144]
2017	Tetyana Terekhova, Slava Varda, Andriy Kishe, Amy Grace, Neyba Traore, Hanna Butkevych and Andriy Dzhedzhula	[145]
2018	Cláudia Semedo [pt], Inês Lopes Goncalves [pt], Pedro Granger [pt] and Pedro Penim [pt]	[146]
2019	Noa Tishby, Shani Nachshoni, Leon Rosenberg [he] and Nadav Abukasis [he]	[147]
2021[b]	Koos van Plateringen [nl] and Fenna Ramos [nl]	[149]
2022	Gabriele Corsi, Carolina Di Domenico, Mario Acampa [it] and Laura Carusino [it]	[150]
2023	Timur Miroshnychenko, Sam Quek and Richie Anderson	[151][152]
2024	Elecktra and Tia Kofi	[153]
2025	Jan van Ditzhuijzen, Tanja Dankner, Odette Hella'Grand [de] and Joël von Mutzenbecher [de]	[154]

Press conferences presenters

Year	Presenter(s)	Ref
2014	Ulla Essendrop and Abdel Aziz Mahmoud	[155]
2015	Katharina Bellowitsch	[156]
2016	Jovan Radomir and Catarina Rolfsdotter	[157]
2017	Nika Konstantinova, Tetyana Terekhova and Ihor Posypayko	[citation needed]
2018	Pedro Granger [pt] and Pedro Penim [pt]	[158]
2019	Sivan Avrahami and Nadav Ambon [he]	[159]
2021	Koos van Plateringen [nl], Hila Noorzai [nl] and Samya Hafsaoui [nl]	[160]
2022	Carolina Di Domenico, Mario Acampa [it] and Laura Carusino [it]	[161]
2023	Timur Miroshnychenko, Jermaine Foster and Mariia Vynogradova	[162]
2024	Jovan Radomir	[163]
2025[c]	Sven Epiney	[165]

Gallery

• 
  1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974 hostess: Katie Boyle
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  1979 hostess: Yardena Arazi
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  1983 hostess: Marlene Charell
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  1994 host: Gerry Ryan, pictured in March 2010, one month before his death
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  2000 hostess: Kattis Ahlström
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  2003 host: Renārs Kaupers
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  2006 hostess: Maria Menounos
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  2007 hosts: Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko Leppilampi
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  2008 hosts: Jovana Janković and Željko Joksimović
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  2010 hosts: Nadia Hasnaoui, Erik Solbakken and Haddy Jatou N'jie
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  2011 hosts: Anke Engelke, Stefan Raab and Judith Rakers
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  2012 hosts: Leyla Aliyeva, Eldar Gasimov and Nargiz Birk-Petersen
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  2014 hosts: Nikolaj Koppel, Lise Rønne and Pilou Asbæk
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  2015 hosts: Alice Tumler, Mirjam Weichselbraun and Arabella Kiesbauer
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  2016 hosts: Måns Zelmerlöw and Petra Mede
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  2017 hosts: Timur Miroshnychenko, Oleksandr Skichko and Volodymyr Ostapchuk
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  2018 hosts: Daniela Ruah, Sílvia Alberto, Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela
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  2019 hosts: Assi Azar, Bar Refaeli, Lucy Ayoub and Erez Tal
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  2023 hosts (final): Alesha Dixon, Julia Sanina, Hannah Waddingham and Graham Norton
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  2024 hosts: Malin Åkerman and Petra Mede
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  2025 hosts (final): Sandra Studer, Hazel Brugger and Michelle Hunziker

See also

• List of Junior Eurovision Song Contest presenters