Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

The Netherlands has participated in every edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since its inception in 2003 and is the only country to have taken part in every edition of the contest. The country has won the competition on one occasion; in 2009, with the song "Click Clack" by Ralf Mackenbach. Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS (formerly AVRO) has been responsible for the participation, selecting the nation's entrant through the national final Junior Songfestival.

Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Participating broadcaster	AVROTROS (2014–) Formerly Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep (AVRO; 2003–2013)
Participation summary
Appearances	22
First appearance	2003
Highest placement	1st: 2009
Host	2007, 2012
Participation history 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Related articles
Junior Songfestival
External links
Netherlands's page at JuniorEurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024

History

The Netherlands are one of the sixteen countries to have made their debut at the inaugural Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003, which took place on 15 November 2003 at the Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[1]

The broadcaster AVROTROS, formerly AVRO, is responsible for the organisation of the Dutch Junior Eurovision Song Contest entry. A national final has been organised by AVRO to select the entry, called Junior Songfestival. Entrants previously wrote their own songs and sent it to the broadcaster, where a jury and the public decided the winner. Since 2016, candidates audition individually and are placed in groups later on.

As of 2023,^[update] the Netherlands has won the competition once – at the 2009 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine, Ralf Mackenbach won with the song "Click Clack" with 121 points, beating runners-up Russia and Armenia by just five points. This was the Netherlands' fifth victory at any Eurovision event, the last time being the Eurovision Song Contest 1975.

The 2007 contest was held in the Netherlands, in the venue Ahoy in Rotterdam. The 2012 contest was held in the Netherlands as well, this time in Amsterdam, making it the first country to host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice.

Participation overview

Femke (pictured in 2012) represented Netherlands at the 2012 contest held in Amsterdam

Mylène and Rosanne in Kyiv (2013)

Table key

1	First place
2	Second place
◁	Last place
†	Upcoming event

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Place	Points
2003	Roel	"Mijn ogen zeggen alles"	Dutch	11	23
2004	Klaartje and Nicky	"Hij is een kei"	Dutch	11	27
2005	Tess	"Stupid"	Dutch	7	82
2006	Kimberly	"Goed"	Dutch	12	44
2007	Lisa, Amy and Shelley	"Adem in, adem uit"	Dutch	11	39
2008	Marissa	"1 dag"	Dutch	13	27
2009	Ralf Mackenbach	"Click Clack"	Dutch, English	1	121
2010	Anna and Senna	"My Family"	Dutch, English	9	52
2011	Rachel	"Teenager"	Dutch[a]	2	103
2012	Femke	"Tik tak tik"	Dutch	7	69
2013	Mylène and Rosanne	"Double Me"	Dutch, English	8	59
2014	Julia	"Around"	Dutch, English	8	70
2015	Shalisa	"Million Lights"	Dutch, English	15	35
2016	Kisses	"Kisses and Dancin'"	Dutch, English	8	174
2017	Fource	"Love Me"	Dutch, English	4	156
2018	Max and Anne	"Samen"	Dutch, English	13	91
2019	Matheu	"Dans met jou"	Dutch, English	4	186
2020	Unity	"Best Friends"	Dutch, English	4	132
2021	Ayana	"Mata Sugu Aō Ne" (またすぐ会おうね)	Dutch, English[b]	19 ◁	43
2022	Luna	"La festa"	Dutch, English[c]	7	128
2023	Sep & Jasmijn [nl]	"Holding On to You"	Dutch, English	7	122
2024	Stay Tuned	"Music"	Dutch, English	10	91
2025	TBD 20 September 2025 †[2]

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.^[3] The Dutch broadcaster, AVROTROS, sent their own commentator to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Dutch language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Netherlands. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2003.

Year	Channel	Commentator(s)[4]	Spokesperson	Ref.
2003	NPO 2	Angela Groothuizen	Aisa Renardus
2004			Danny Hoekstra
2005		Tooske Ragas	Giovanni Kemper	[5]
2006	NPO 3	Sipke Jan Bousema	Tess Gaerthé	[6]
2007		Marcel Kuijer	Kimberly Nieuwenhuizen
2008		Sipke Jan Bousema	Famke Rauch
2009			Marissa Grasdijk [nl]
2010			Bram Bos
2011		Marcel Kuijer	Anna Lagerweij
2012	NPO 1		Lidewei Loot
2013	NPO 3		Alessandro Wempe	[7][8]
2014	NPO Zapp on NPO 3	Jan Smit	Mylène and Rosanne	[9]
2015			Julia van Bergen	[10]
2016			Anneloes	[11][12]
2017			Thijs Schlimback	[13]
2018			Vincent Miranovich	[14][15]
2019		Buddy Vedder	Anne Buhre	[16][17][18]
2020		Jan Smit	Robin de Haas	[19][20][21]
2021		Buddy Vedder	Matheu Hinzen	[22]
2022		Bart Arens and Matheu Hinzen	Ralf Mackenbach	[23][24][25]
2023			Luna Sabella	[26][27]
2024	NPO Zapp on NPO 3[d] NPO 2 Extra		Veronika Morska	[29][30]

Hostings

Year	Location	Venue	Presenters
2007	Rotterdam	Rotterdam Ahoy	Kim-Lian van der Meij and Sipke Jan Bousema
2012	Amsterdam	Heineken Music Hall	Ewout Genemans and Kim-Lian van der Meij

See also

• Junior Songfestival – The competition organised by AVROTROS to select the entrant for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
• Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest – Senior version of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Notes

1. Contains some phrases in English
2. Contains two repeated phrases in Japanese
3. Contains four repeated words in Italian
4. Incomplete broadcast of the contest, starting at 18:30 CET during France's performance and pausing at 19:00 (skipping San Marino) before resuming during Ukraine's performance. The Netherlands rebroadcast the full event on NPO Zapp via NPO 3 a day later due to the live broadcast being delayed and interrupted on said channel the night before. The contest was however broadcast live and in full on NPO 2 Extra.^[28]