Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Croatia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Guilty Pleasure" performed by Mia Dimšić. The Croatian broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision organised the national final Dora 2022 to select the Croatian entry for the 2022 contest. Fourteen entries competed in the national final on 19 February 2022 and "Guilty Pleasure" performed by Mia Dimšić was selected as the winner following the combination of votes from ten regional juries and a public televote.
Croatia was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 10 May 2022. Performing during the show in position 11, "Guilty Pleasure" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Croatia placed eleventh out of the 17 participating countries in the semi-final with 75 points.
Background
Prior to the 2022 contest, Croatia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty-six times since its first entry in. The nation's best result in the contest was fourth, which it achieved on two occasions: in with the song "Sveta ljubav" performed by Maja Blagdan and in with the song "Marija Magdalena" performed by Doris Dragović. Following the introduction of semi-finals in, Croatia had thus far featured in seven finals. Since 2018, the Croatian entries failed to qualify from the semi-finals; the last time Croatia competed in the final was in with the song "My Friend" performed by Jacques Houdek. In, Croatia failed to qualify to the final with Albina and the song "Tick-Tock".The Croatian national broadcaster, Croatian Radiotelevision, broadcasts the event within Croatia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. HRT confirmed Croatia's participation in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest on 13 September 2021. Between 1993 and 2011, HRT organised the national final Dora in order to select the Croatian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2012 and 2013, the broadcaster opted to internally select the entry. After missing the contest in 2014 and 2015, the Croatian broadcaster continued the internal selection procedure between 2016 and 2018. Since 2019, HRT has used Dora to select Croatia's entry, a method that was continued for their 2022 participation.
Before Eurovision
Dora ''2022''
Dora 2022 was the twenty-third edition of the Croatian national selection Dora which selected Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. The competition consisted of fourteen entries competing in one final on 19 February 2022 at the Marino Cvetković Sports Hall in Opatija, hosted by Duško Ćurlić, and 2018 Croatian Eurovision entrant Franka Batelić. The show was broadcast on HRT 1 as well as online via the broadcaster's YouTube channel and streaming service HRTi.Competing entries
On 27 October 2021, HRT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster with the deadline on 25 November 2021, which was later extended until 12 December 2021. 184 entries were received by the broadcaster during the submission period. A five-member expert committee consisting of Željko Mesar, Zlatko Turkalj, Robert Urlić, Antonela Doko and Aljoša Šerić reviewed the received submissions and selected fourteen artists and songs for the competition. HRT announced the competing entries on 17 December 2021. The running order of the final was determined during the HRT 1 show Kod Nas Doma, hosted by and Barbara Kolar.| Artist | Song | Songwriter |
| Bernarda | "Here for Love" | Bernarda Brunović, Adriana Pupavac, Andreas Björkman, Karl Persson, Jonas Ekdahl, Aidan O'Connor |
| Elis Lovrić | "No War" | Anthony Kukuljan, Elis Lovrić, Sandi Bratonja |
| Ella Orešković | "If You Walk Away" | Siniša Reljić |
| Eric Vidović | "I Found You" | Eric Vidović, Filip Vidović, Gordan Dragić |
| Jessa | "My Next Mistake" | Silvio Pasarić, Jessica Atlić-McColgan |
| Marko Bošnjak | "Moli za nas" | Vlaho Arbulić, Mihovil Šoštarić |
| Mia Dimšić | "Guilty Pleasure" | Mia Dimšić, Vjekoslav Dimter, Damir Bačić |
| Mia Negovetić | "Forgive Me " | Andreas Stone Johansson, Denniz Jamm, Laurell Barker, Mia Negovetić |
| "Ljubav" | Bruno Krajcar | |
| Roko Vušković | "Malo kasnije" | Predrag Martinjak, Roko Vušković, Jan Šinjor Cvetković |
| Tia | "Voli me do neba" | Vlaho Arbulić, Mihovil Šoštarić |
| Tina Vukov | "Hideout" | Rejhan Okanović, Tomislav Gojanović, Josipa Vujević |
| ToMa | "In the Darkness" | Adriana Pupavac, Andreas Björkman, Tomislav Marić, Aidan O'Connor, Samuel Runsteen |
| Zdenka Kovačiček | "Stay on the Bright Side" | Adi Karas, Elvis Sršen NoA, Zvonimir Bajević, Jurica Hotko |
Final
The final took place on 19 February 2022. The winner, "Guilty Pleasure" performed by Mia Dimšić, was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from ten regional juries and a public televote. The viewers and the juries each had a total of 580 points to award. Each jury group distributed their points as follows: 1-8, 10 and 12 points. The viewer vote was based on the percentage of votes each song achieved through telephone and SMS voting. For example, if a song gained 10% of the viewer vote, then that entry would be awarded 10% of 580 points rounded to the nearest integer: 58 points. Ties were decided in favour of the entry ranked higher by the public televote. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, host Franka Batelić and 2021 Croatian Eurovision entrant Albina performed as the interval acts during the show.| Draw | Song | scope="col" | scope="col" | scope="col" | scope="col" | scope="col" | scope="col" | scope="col" | scope="col" | scope="col" | scope="col" | Total |
| 1 | "Ljubav" | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | "Forgive Me " | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 81 |
| 3 | "Moli za nas" | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 71 |
| 4 | "My Next Mistake" | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |||||||
| 5 | "Stay on the Bright Side" | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 31 | ||
| 6 | "Hideout" | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 33 | |
| 7 | "Malo kasnije" | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||||
| 8 | "Here for Love" | 12 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 64 |
| 9 | "I Found You" | 10 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 59 | |
| 10 | "In The Darkness" | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 43 | |||
| 11 | "No War" | 5 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 64 |
| 12 | "If You Walk Away" | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| 13 | "Voli me do neba" | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 | |||||
| 14 | "Guilty Pleasure" | 8 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 91 |
| Jury | Members |
| Zagreb |
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| Vukovar | |
| Varaždin and Čakovec | |
| Rijeka | |
| Pula | |
| Osijek | |
| Zadar | |
| Knin and Šibenik | |
| Split | |
| Dubrovnik |