Country

Cyprus

Cyprus first took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 and has entered 42 contests. Its best result in a final is second place, in 2018 with Fuego by Eleni Foureira. Since the semi-finals were introduced in 2004 it has qualified for the Grand Final 12 times in 20 attempts, not counting years with an automatic place. The countries that have given it most points in total are Greece (546) and the United Kingdom (176); it has itself given most points to Greece (592).

Contests

Wins

Best place

2018

1981

First entry

Latest 2026

Participations

Year	Song	Performed By	Semi Final Position	Grand Final Position
2026	Jalla	Antigoni	10. /15	19. /25
2025	Shh	Theo Evan	11. /15	-
2024	Liar	Silia Kapsis	6. /15	15. /26
2023	Break a Broken Heart	Andrew Lambrou	7. /16	12. /26
2022	Ela	Andromache	12. /18	-
2021	El Diablo	Elena Tsagrinou	6. /16	16. /26
2020	Running	Sandro
2019	Replay	Tamta	9. /17	13. /26
2018	Fuego	Eleni Foureira	2. /19	2. /26
2017	Gravity	Hovig	5. /18	21. /26
2016	Alter Ego	Minus One	8. /18	21. /26
2015	One Thing I Should Have Done	John Karayiannis	6. /17	22. /27
2013	An Me Thimasai	Despina Olympiou	15. /16	-
2012	La La Love	Ivi Adamou	7. /18	16. /26
2011	San Aggelos S’Agapisa	Christos Mylordos	18. /19	-
2010	Life Looks Better In Spring	Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders	10. /17	21. /25
2009	Firefly	Christina Metaxa	14. /19	-
2008	Femme Fatale	Evdokia Kadi	15. /19	-
2007	Comme Ci, Comme ça	Evridiki	15. /28	-
2006	Why Angels Cry	Annet Artani	15. /23	-
2005	Ela Ela	Constantinos Christoforou	-	18. /24
2004	Stronger Every Minute	Lisa Andreas	5. /22	5. /24
2003	Feeling Alive	Stelios Constantas	-	20. /26
2002	Gimme	One	-	6. /24
2000	Nomiza	Voice	-	21. /24
1999	Tha'nai Erotas	Marlain Angelidou	-	22. /23
1998	Genesis	Michael Hajiyanni	-	11. /25
1997	Mana Mou	Chara and Andreas Konstantinou	-	5. /25
1996	Móno Gia Más	Constantinos	-	9. /23
1995	Sti Fotia	Alexandros Panayi	-	9. /23
1994	Ime Anthropos Ke Ego	Evridiki	-	11. /25
1993	Mi Stamatas	Kyriakos Zymboulakis and Demos Van Beke	-	19. /25
1992	Teriazoume	Evridiki	-	11. /23
1991	S.o.s.	Elena Patroclou	-	9. /22
1990	Milas Poli	Haris Anastasiou	-	14. /22
1989	Apopse As Vrethoume	Fanny Polymeri and Yiannis Savvidakis	-	11. /22
1987	Aspro Mavro	Alexia	-	7. /22
1986	Tora Zo	Elpida	-	20. /20
1985	To Katalava Arga	Lia Vishy	-	16. /19
1984	Anna Mari-elena	Andy Paul	-	15. /19
1983	I Agapi Akoma Zi	Stavros and Constantina	-	16. /20
1982	Mono I Agapi	Anna Vishy	-	5. /18
1981	Monika	Island	-	6. /20

Countries that vote for Cyprus

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Most points from

Points

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Country	Jury Points	Tel. Points	Total	Average
Belgium	25	26	103	2.24
Croatia	24	32	108	3.09
Denmark	13	9	96	2.34
Germany	15	7	69	1.92
Greece	115	156	546	14.00
Hungary	2	24	44	2.59
Iceland	8	24	113	2.90
Israel	18	27	125	3.05
Malta	59	42	173	4.94
Norway	23	7	90	2.14
Poland	14	30	58	1.93
Russia	29	36	93	4.04
Slovenia	27	38	89	2.54
Spain	40	26	122	3.39
Sweden	39	16	114	2.48
United Kingdom	11	42	176	4.76
Finland	29	22	114	2.85
France	12	8	59	1.64
Ireland	32	19	120	2.67
Switzerland	11	12	70	1.75
The Netherlands	17	9	84	2.21
Yugoslavia	0	0	52	5.20
Albania	48	61	142	5.92
Armenia	54	99	170	10.00
Australia	30	53	89	5.24
Austria	2	12	36	0.90
Estonia	38	22	86	2.61
Georgia	31	47	80	4.44
Lithuania	6	19	47	1.62
Romania	14	26	83	3.07
San Marino	32	63	97	5.71
Ukraine	2	12	38	1.52
Azerbaijan	23	82	111	4.83
Latvia	6	7	38	1.46
Moldova	20	29	52	2.48
Montenegro	14	28	48	3.20
North Macedonia	20	32	56	2.55
Serbia	8	29	51	3.00
Luxembourg	7	12	27	1.69
Portugal	2	33	78	1.95
Belarus	24	10	49	2.72
Bulgaria	26	50	112	7.47
Monaco	0	0	24	6.00
Rest of the world	0	5	5	–
Italy	10	16	70	3.50
Slovakia	0	0	18	2.57
Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	6	2.00
Czech Republic	16	24	40	2.22
Türkiye	0	0	10	0.34
Andorra	0	0	6	1.20
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	2	2	0.11

Countries that Cyprus votes for

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Country	Jury Points	Tel. Points	Total	Average
Albania	39	9	63	2.63
Armenia	27	53	140	7.00
Australia	59	37	100	6.25
Austria	24	15	86	2.26
Azerbaijan	43	22	132	5.50
Belarus	0	11	45	3.00
Belgium	29	19	96	2.23
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	7	0.33
Bulgaria	36	73	172	12.29
Croatia	29	15	85	2.58
Czech Republic	25	22	47	3.13
Denmark	12	0	93	2.27
Estonia	13	38	75	2.34
Finland	20	14	70	1.75
France	46	36	155	3.69
Georgia	7	11	57	3.80
Germany	0	3	55	1.31
Greece	114	142	592	14.10
Hungary	14	10	46	2.30
Iceland	9	9	56	1.47
Ireland	3	10	114	2.78
Israel	38	75	188	4.37
Italy	50	50	167	6.68
Latvia	0	0	24	1.14
Lithuania	3	49	85	2.74
Luxembourg	4	9	45	2.81
Malta	56	21	127	3.97
Moldova	10	25	68	2.96
Monaco	0	0	4	1.33
Montenegro	4	0	6	0.67
The Netherlands	13	21	69	1.82
North Macedonia	0	0	5	0.26
Norway	4	26	116	2.52
Poland	10	32	56	2.07
Portugal	22	17	64	1.64
Romania	11	40	138	4.93
Russia	48	40	193	7.42
San Marino	3	10	13	1.30
Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	30	10.00
Serbia	20	29	81	4.05
Slovenia	11	5	37	1.19
Spain	19	12	143	3.40
Sweden	73	35	227	4.45
Switzerland	19	15	100	2.78
Türkiye	0	0	12	0.38
Ukraine	11	94	203	6.34
United Kingdom	8	6	94	2.19
Yugoslavia	0	0	59	5.90