Portugal Eurovision 2026: Festival da Canção Semi-final 2 results

This morning, Portuguese broadcaster RTP Internacional (RTP) held the seond semi-final of their national final Festival da Canção 2026.

Four of the finalists were determined by a 50% televoting and 50% jury system. A fifth televote wildcard also progressed to the final after a second round of voting following the announcement of the first four qualifiers.

The four acts that qualified directly for the Festival da Canção 2026 final from semi-final 2 are:

Silvana Peres – Não tem fim

Bandidos do Cante – Rosa

João Ribeiro – Canção do querer

Sandrino – Disposto a tudo

The televote wild card act which will progress to the final is Gonçalo Gomes with Doce ilusão.

Those eliminated from the competition are:

Francisco Fontes – Copiloto

Jacaréu & Ana Margarida – O-pi-ni-ão

Inês Sousa – Um filme ao contrário

Today's qualifiers will join the first five finalists chosen during last week's first semi-final:

Nunca Mates o Mandarim - Fumo

Marquise - Chuva

Dinis Mota - Jurei

Evaya - Sprint

André Amaro - Dá-me a tua mão

The ten acts will compete in the final on Saturday 07 March (Sunday 08 March Australian time) to decide who will represent the Iberian nation in Vienna.

Australian times are as follows (Sunday 08 March morning):

Festival da Canção 2026 will be streamed live at the following times:

5.00am - Western Australia

6.30am - Northern Territory

7.00am - Queensland

7.30am - South Australia

8.00am - NSW, ACT, Victoria and Tasmania

Portugal at Eurovision:

Portugal has competed 54 times since their debut in 1964 and has won the Eurovision Song Contest once with Salvador Sobral and Amar pelos dois in 2017.

Last year Portugal was represented by Napa with Deslocado which finished in 21st place.

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