Last night ten acts qualified for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 taking place in Vienna, Austria this Saturday. Alongside the qualifiers, two automatic finalists – Italy and Germany, also performed. In the aftermath of the show, the first round of running order positions were chosen randomly.
Qualifiers and AQ running order draw
Earlier this year, during the Head of Delegations meeting, it was confirmed that Austria’s Cosmó will perform in 25th position the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with ‘Tanzschein’ for the host nation.
Now we know where the first qualifiers from Semi-Final 1 and the two automatic qualifiers – Italy and Germany will perform. Following the conclusion of the first live show, the competing Eurovision artists were able to choose from First Half, Second Half or Producer’s Choice. The latter allows the show producers to place an act wherever they want in the Grand Final running order. The draws for the qualifiers and automatic qualifiers from Semi-Final 1 are as follows:
Semi-Final 1 Qualifiers:
- Sweden – FELICIA – ‘My System’ (Second Half)
- Greece – Akylas – ‘Ferto’ (First Half)
- Finland – Linda Lampenius x Pete Parkkonen – ‘Liekinheitin’ (Producer’s Choice)
- Israel – Noam Bettan – ‘Michelle’ (Producer’s Choice)
- Belgium – ESSYLA – ‘Dancing On The Ice’ (First Half)
- Moldova – Satoshi – ‘Viva Moldova!’ (Producer’s Choice)
- Serbia – LAVINA – ‘Kraj Mene’ (First Half)
- Croatia – LELEK – ‘Andromeda’ (Producer’s Choice)
- Lithuania – Lion Ceccah – ‘Sólo Quiero Más’ (Second Half)
- Poland – ALICJA – ‘Pray’ (Second Half)
Automatic Qualifiers
- Germany – Sarah Engels – ‘Fire’ (Producer’s Choice)
- Italy – Sal Da Vinci – ‘Per Sempre Si’ (Producer’s Choice)
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