Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Poland
Member station	TVP
National selection events	Internal Selection 1994–1999 2001 2005 2014–2015 National Final Krajowe Eliminacje do Konkursu Piosenki Eurowizji 2003–2004 Piosenka dla Europy 2006–2009 Krajowe Eliminacje 2010–2011 2016–2018
Participation summary
Appearances	21 (14 finals)
First appearance	1994
Best result	2nd: 1994
Worst result	Last: 2011 SF
External links
TVP page
Poland's page at Eurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Poland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 21 times since its debut in 1994. Although Poland did not become a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) until 1993, earlier contests had often been broadcast on Telewizja Polska (TVP), the Polish broadcaster.

Poland's debut in the contest in 1994 remains its most successful entry, with Edyta Górniak finishing second. This remains Poland's only top five result in the contest. The country reached the top ten for the second time with Ich Troje finishing seventh in 2003. Poland then failed to qualify from the semi-finals in six out of seven years between 2005 and 2011, before withdrawing from the contest in 2012 and 2013. Since returning in 2014, Poland had qualified for the final for four consecutive years (2014–17), achieving a third top ten finish in 2016, with Michał Szpak finishing eighth. The country failed to qualify for the final for the seventh time in 2018.

History

The first ever performance by Poland was at the 1994 contest: Edyta Górniak's song was also by far the most successful for Poland to date, receiving 166 points and placing second. Poland was almost disqualified that year though; there was no free-language rule in operation at the time, and a furor erupted at the dress rehearsal when Górniak sung the second half of "To nie ja!" in English. Six national delegations formally petitioned for Poland to be disqualified; however Eurovision rules required a majority of delegations (13 in this case) to complain before the European Broadcasting Union could examine the case for disqualification, so Poland was allowed to remain.

Subsequent Polish entries were less successful, placing between 11th and 20th.Poland returned to Eurovision following an enforced one-year absence 2002.

For the 2003 contest Poland organized its first public selection for Eurovision entry; It was no surprise when the group Ich Troje won the public vote ahead of Blue Café,placing 7th of 26 countries in the final.This placing allowed Poland to skip the semi-final of the 2004 contest, automatically qualifying for the final.

The polish entry for the 2004 contest was again selected through National Final,the winner of Krajowe Eliminacje was Blue Café with "Love Song".Group could not replicate Ich Troje's 7th place, receiving only 27 points and placing 17th.

In 2005 TVP went back to an internal selection, picking "Czarna dziewczyna", a multilingual song performed in Polish and Russian.Poland competed first time at the semi-final. The song just missed out on a place in the final, coming 11th in the semi-final with 81 points only 4 point behind Latvia.

Poland's 2006 entry with the comeback of the public vote on TVP, Ich Troje were chosen again in 2006 with song "Follow My Heart", but could not repeat their 7th place from 2003 failed to qualify for the final, coming 11th with 70 points in the semi-final only 5 point behind Macedonia.Poland's 2007 entry, "Time To Party", sung by The Jet Set, only finished 14th in the semi-final.

Poland's only appearance in the final between 2005 and 2011, was in 2008. Even then, its song ("For Life", sung by Isis Gee) placed a lowly 24th.

In the 2009,Poland selected Lidia Kopania and her song "I Don't Wanna Leave" performed in the second semi-final on 14 May 2009, however she failed to qualify finished 12th with 43 points.

The 2010 entry for Poland was Marcin Mroziński with song "Legenda",country performed in the first semi-final on 25 May 2010 but he didn't qualify for the final, finishing 13th with 44 points.

In 2011, Poland was represented by Magdalena Tul,and the country's entry was sung in Polish. Her song was called "Jestem", translated as "I'm",although initially a favorite with bookmakers, "Jestem" failed to qualify finished last 19th with 18 points in the first semi-final. This is the worst Polish result to date.

Members of the Polish OGAE have said at their annual convention that they would like Edyta Górniak to represent Poland for a second time. For years it was unknown if Górniak would enter Eurovision again,^[1] until when in 2016 she made a second attempt at representing her country in the contest, placing third in the national final.

Contestants

Table key

• NOTE: If a country won the previous year, they did not have to compete in Semi Finals, or back in the early 2005-2007 era, countries who did well did not have to compete in Semi Finals the following year. The top ten non-Big four along with the Big four countries automatically qualified, for example, if Germany and France placed inside the top 10, the 11th and 12th spots were advanced to next year's Grand Final along with everyone within the top 10.

Voting history

As of 2018, Poland's voting history is as follows:

Most points given in the grand finals only Rank Country Points 1  Ukraine 120 2  Sweden 87 3  Norway 67 4  Germany 64 5  Belgium 63 Most points received in the grand finals only Rank Country Points 1  Germany 68 2  Austria 48 3  United Kingdom 40 4  France 39 5  Ireland 37

Most points given in the semis and finals Rank Country Points 1  Ukraine 171 2  Sweden 132 3  Norway 117 4  Belgium 102 5  Hungary 86 Most points received in the semis and finals Rank Country Points 1  Germany 140 2  Ireland 93 3  United Kingdom 85 4  Norway 82 5  Ukraine 77

Commentators and Spokespersons

Conductors

All conductors are Polish except with a flag.

• Noel Kelehan (1994–1995)
• Wiesław Pieregorólka (1996, 1998)
• Krzesimir Dębski (1997)^[7]

Photogallery

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  The Jet Set at Helsinki (2007)
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  Isis Gee at Belgrade (2008)
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  Marcin Mroziński at Oslo (2010)
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  Magdalena Tul at Düsseldorf (2011)
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  Donatan & Cleo at Copenhagen (2014)
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  Monika Kuszyńska at Vienna (2015)
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  Michał Szpak at Stockholm (2016)
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  Kasia Moś at Kyiv (2017)
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  Gromee and Lukas Meijer at Lisbon (2018)

See also

• Poland in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
• Poland in the Eurovision Dance Contest

Notes

References

External links

• Points to and from Poland eurovisioncovers.co.uk
• OGAE Poland official site eurowizja.org