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Report Card: Portugal at Eurovision in the 2020s

  • Writer: aussievision
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With five Eurovision Song Contests completed this decade, how is each nation faring?


In an ongoing series, the Aussievision team will rate the performance of each Eurovision nation in alphabetical order.


We’ll look back at their results from 2021 to 2025, their qualification record, give our team’s rating, and see how they stack up against other countries.


Portugal's Eurovision results of the 2020s


  • 2021: The Black Mamba - Love is on my side: 12th in the Grand Final

  • 2022: MARO - saudade saudade: 9th in the Grand Final

  • 2023: Mimicat - Ai coração: 23rd in the Grand Final

  • 2024: iolanda - Grito: 10th in the Grand Final

  • 2025: NAPA - Deslocado: 21st in the Grand Final


  • Top 10s: 40%

  • Qualifications: 100%



Team rating of Portugal: 83.6%


We asked the Aussievision team to rate Portugal's Eurovision 2020s entries on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).


This gave us an average overall score from the 11 contributors who voted. We then converted that into a percentage.


Poland's score was: 83.6%


The scores ranged from a 6/10 to 10/10, with three contributors each giving Portugal 6/10, 7/10 and 8/10.


"No matter how much you like Portugal at Eurovision (and I do love Portugal at Eurovision) they still sometimes surprise you with their sheer consistency and success. After years in the trenches batting for Maro, Mimicat and Iolanda against the ire of unsympathetic fans, mediocre poll results and Dale Roberts, I thought that the Iberian nation had finally met their Waterloo with NAPA this year - and yet, they proved me wrong, with possibly their most commercially successful entry this decade! Always surprising, always artistic, always moving - Portugal is the best Eurovision nation of the 2020s in my view, and it's only a matter of time until they get their much-deserved second win." ~Craig


"I recall back in 2021 when a lot of people thought Love is on my side was a non-qualifier and every year since people almost assume that Portugal may not qualify for the Grand Final but every time they have proven everyone wrong. They have stuck to their own formula, stuck to their own identity, and it has paid off. Five qualifications in a row is their longest streak so far! There is an appetite for Portuguese music at Eurovision!" ~Kyriakos


"Portugal resolutely stick to their own taste. Sometimes that aligns with what everybody else is liking and sometimes it stands out like a week-old pastel de nata." ~Troy


"Like Lithuania, I feel Portugal keep quietly doing their thing and are getting some pretty darned impressive results - flying under the radar. I feel Portugal will have another win some time soon." ~Hayley



Updated rankings:


Here’s how the leaderboard looks so far in our 2020s Report Card series:


1st: Italy - 90.7%

2nd: Finland - 88.1%

3rd: France 81.1%

4th: Portugal - 83.6%

5th: Greece - 80.8%

6th: Estonia - 80%

7th: Lithuania - 77.2%

8th: Austria - 71.4%

9th: Armenia - 70.8%

10th: Luxembourg - 68%

11th: Albania - 67.5%

12th: Cyprus - 66.4%

13th: Norway - 65.4%

14th: Croatia - 64.4%

15th: Moldova - 63.7%

16th: Netherlands - 63.3%

17th: Poland - 63%

18th: Israel 57.7%

19th=: Belgium - 53.3%

19th=: Czechia - 53.3%

19th=: Iceland - 53.3%

22nd: Malta - 53%

23rd: Latvia - 50%

24th: Australia - 45.4%

25th: Germany - 41%

26th: Azerbaijan - 32.5%

27th: Ireland - 32%

28th: Denmark - 28%

29th: Georgia - 26.1%

30th: North Macedonia - 21.3%

31st: Montenegro - 18.2%


How would you rate Portugal at Eurovision in the 2020s?

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