RTP the national broadcaster of Portugal has confirmed the running orders for the 16 acts competing in the two Semi-Finals of Festival da Canção 2026.
🇵🇹 Festival da Canção 2026 Semi-Final running orders
A total of 16 acts will take part in Festival da Canção 2026 this year across three live shows. RTP the Portuguese broadcaster has now confirmed the positions of the running order for all the competing acts in the two Semi-Finals.
Semi-Final 1:
- Dinis Mota – ‘Jurei’
- Nunca Mates o Mandarim – ‘Fumo’
- Evaya – ‘Sprint’
- André Amaro – ‘Dá-me a tua mão’
- Bateu Matou – ‘Nos teus olhos’
- Marquise – ‘Chuva’
- AGRIDOCE – ‘Onde quero estar’
- Mario Marta – ‘Pertencer’
Semi-Final 2:
- Gonçalo Gomes – ‘Doce ilusão’
- Silvana Peres – ‘Não tem fim’
- Sandrino – ‘Disposto a tudo’
- Francisco Fontes – ‘Copiloto’
- Bandidos do Cante – ‘Rosa’
- Jacaréu & Ana Margarida – ‘O-pi-ni-ão’
- João Ribeiro – “Canção do querer’
- Inês Sousa – “O filme ao contrário’
Recently, RTP reaffirmed its commitment to Eurovision 2026 participation following the outcomes of the EBU General Assembly. It had been previously announced that winning the national selection Festival da Canção 2026 would not be tied to Eurovision representation.
So far, 13 out of 16 competing artists have revealed they will boycott Eurovision 2026 should they win the festival. Only Bandidos do Cante has publicly stated they would participate and represent Portugal at Eurovision 2026.
The annual music festival is set to take place with three live shows. The two Semi-Finals will air on February 21 and February 28. The Grand Final will take place on March 7. This year, online voting will be allowed for the first time. In the Grand Final, the winner will be chosen whereby the 50% jury and 50% public voting will be converted to the Eurovision scoring system and combined.
Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest
Out of 55 participations to date, Portugal has won the Eurovision Song Contest only once – in 2017 with Salvador Sobral’s ‘Amar pelos dois‘. To this day, it holds the record for the most points in the history of the contest with 758. Their next best result was with ‘O meu coração não tem cor‘ by Lúcia Moniz back in 1996, which finished in sixth place. Currently, the Iberian nation is enjoying a run of five qualifications in a row.
Earlier this year, NAPA won Festival da Canção 2025 with ‘Deslocado’. During the Basel contest, ‘Deslocado’ achieved 21st place in the Grand Final with 50 points. Over the Summer, the song has resonated with listeners to become a viral hit. So far it has amassed over 75,000,000 streams on Spotify alone.
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