Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025

Greece was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Asteromata", written by Arcade and Klavdia and performed by Klavdia herself. The Greek participating broadcaster, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, organised the national final Ethnikós Telikós 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Greece was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025; it was later selected to perform in position 7. At the end of the show, Greece was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Greece placed 4th out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 112 points. In the final, Greece performed in position 17 and placed 6th out of the 26 performing countries, scoring a total of 231 points and giving Greece its best result since.

Background

Prior to the 2025 contest, Greece had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 44 times since its debut in. The nation has won the contest once to this point, in with the song "My Number One" performed by Helena Paparizou. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the, it managed to qualify for the final with each of its entries for several years. Between 2004 and 2013, it achieved nine top ten placements in the final. The first entry to not qualify to the final was "Utopian Land" performed by Argo in. Its 16th-place finish in the semi-final marked its worst placing at the contest and led to its absence from the final for the first time since 2000, when it did not send an entry. In the, it failed to qualify for the second time with "Oniro mou" by Yianna Terzi, finishing 14th in the semi-final. After failing to qualify for final for the third time in with "What They Say" by Victor Vernicos, it returned to the final in with "Zari " by Marina Satti, placing 11th with 126 points.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. ERT's predecessor, the National Radio Television Foundation, debuted in the contest in 1974 and then ERT participated from 1975 until 2013, when the broadcaster was shut down by a government directive. It was replaced firstly with the interim Dimosia Tileorasi and then later by the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television broadcaster, before reverting to the ERT name by the new government in June 2015. The Greek broadcasters over the years had selected their entries both internally and through the national final format Ellinikós Telikós. ERT confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest on 14 September 2024, and announced on 18 September that a national final would be organised for the first time since to select its representative.

Before Eurovision

''Ethnikós Telikós 2025''

Ethnikós Telikós 2025 was the national final developed by ERT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition took place on 30 January 2025 at the Christmas Theater in Galatsi, hosted by Sakis Rouvas and Helena Paparizou, with Fokas Evangelinos serving as the artistic director. The show was broadcast on ERT1, ERT World, Second Programme and Voice of Greece, as well as online on ERT's over-the-top media service ERTFLIX International and the Eurovision Song Contest's official YouTube channel. The national final was watched by 833,000 viewers in Greece with a market share of 18.3%, making it the highest rated show of that day.

Competing entries

On 18 October 2024, ERT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for consideration by the broadcaster by 10 November 2024. Artists were required to be Greek citizens, be permanent residents in Greece or be of Greek descent, while songwriters could be of any nationality and submit up to two songs. 187 songs were received by the submission deadline and a seven-member jury selected twelve entries to participate in the national final alongside three backup entries. The jury consisted of Michalis Hatzigiannis, Yiannis Dimitriadis, Kleopatra Eleftheriadou, Stefania, Nektarios Tyrakis, and Dimitris Chorianopoulos. The competing entries were revealed on 10 January 2025 during the ERT1 show Proian se eidon; Salina Gavala and Tsiak were disqualified before the scheduled announcement as they had previously made the title of their song public, which went against the rules of the competition, and were replaced by Nafsica Gavrilaki. Among the selected competing artists was Constantinos Christoforou who previously represented Cyprus in,, and, as well as Xannova Xan, who previously represented Greece in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 as Kalli.
Entry disqualified Replacement entry

Artist	Song	Songwriter
Andy Nicolas	"Lost My Way"
Barbz	"Sirens"
Constantinos Christoforou and	"Paradeisos"
Dinamiss	"Odyssey"
Evangelia	"Vale"
Georgina Kalais and John Vlaseros	"High Road"
Klavdia	"Asteromata"	Arcade
	"Gi mou"	Kostas Ageris
Nafsica Gavrilaki	"Unhurt Me"
Rikki	"Elevator "
and Tsiak	"Tha matho na agapo"
Thanos Lambrou	"Free Love"
Xannova Xan	"Play It!"

Final

The final took place on 30 January 2025, with the running order decided by a draw on 20 January. Twelve songs competed and the winner, "Asteromata" performed by Klavdia, was selected by a combination of public voting conducted through SMS, Greek jury voting and international jury voting. The Greek jury consisted of Michalis Hatzigiannis, Jenny Melita,, and, while the international jury consisted of, Olivier Auclair, Léa Ivanne, Wilkin William Edmund Roy and Simona Martorelli.
In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show was opened by hosts Sakis Rouvas and Helena Paparizou performing three Eurovision entries accompanied by an orchestra: "Waterloo", "Hold Me Now", and "Krasi, thalassa kai t' agori mou", followed by Marina Satti performing her entry "Zari ". During the interval, Rouvas performed his entries, "Shake It" and "This Is Our Night", Paparizou performed her entries "Die for You" and "My Number One", and Theo Evan performed "Fuego ", the song which represented.

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals, which were held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May, with the final on 17 May 2025. During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Greece was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, performing in the first half of the show. At the grand final, Greece, competed at the 17th position and firstly gained 8th place, on only the final jury votes, and finally 6th place, with/from the votes of the public.

Voting

Points awarded to Greece

Score	Televote
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points
1 point

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points
1 point

Points awarded by Greece

Score	Televote
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points
1 point

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points
1 point

Detailed voting results

Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.
The following members comprised the Greek jury:

George Polychroniou
Ioannis Vasilopoulos
Vangelis Konstantinidis
Margarita Mitilinaiou
Mirela Pachou