Eurovision Odds

• First Semi-Final: Tuesday 11 May 2027
• Second Semi-Final: Thursday 13 May 2027
• Grand Final: Saturday 15 May 2027
• Host city: Burgas, Bulgaria
• Venue: Arena Burgas

There can be a long wait between a country leading the jury scoreboard and finding out whether it has won Eurovision. The public still has its points to add, and a comfortable-looking lead may not survive them. Find the available Eurovision betting odds through our entertainment betting section, whether you want the overall winner or have a finishing position in mind.

Next stop is Burgas. DARA's victory with Bangaranga in Vienna means Bulgaria gets to host for the first time, with the 2027 final at Arena Burgas on 15 May.

Following Eurovision can start well before May. Broadcasters choose the act and song representing their country, sometimes through a national final you can watch and sometimes through an internal selection. By the time all the entries have been announced, you may already have spent months listening to some of them.

The first contest was in 1956. For 2027 there is a new flag to follow: Canada enters through CBC/Radio-Canada. Canadian performers have appeared before, most famously Céline Dion winning for Switzerland in 1988, but this will be Canada's debut as a competing country.

Most entrants have to get through a semi-final before they can think about winning Saturday's show. Ten qualify from each of the two semi-finals under the published format, alongside the countries with direct final places. The total field can vary between editions.

Country to Win

You need your country to be announced as the Grand Final winner for this selection to succeed. If it comes second, even by a single point, an ordinary win bet loses.

Look at what has been announced before deciding why a country appeals to you. Have you heard its actual entry, or are you expecting it to choose well? There can be prices on the board long before there is a song to play.

Once you do have a recording, try to hear the artist sing live too. The big note you enjoyed through headphones may be a rather harder task at the end of an energetic stage routine.

Top Ten and Other Finishing Positions

A top-ten selection, where offered, gives your country more than one successful finishing position. Coming ninth would satisfy that bet while leaving a separate outright winner selection unsuccessful.

Look at how the qualifying stage is treated before backing an entry that still has a semi-final to negotiate. A catchy song cannot finish in the Grand Final's top ten if it does not reach that show. The market rules explain the settlement conditions.

If you move between position markets, read the heading again. You can have the right country on the slip and still have asked it to finish higher than you intended.

Each-Way Eurovision Betting

The figure entered for each way goes on twice. For £5 each way, £10 comes out of your balance: half for the win, half for the place. Before confirming, find the place terms on the slip.

Here is a hypothetical calculation. Suppose the entry is 20/1 and the terms say one-fifth odds for the first four. Your £5 place part is then at 4/1. Fourth place would return £25 from that part, including its £5 stake. You would get nothing back from the separate £5 win part.

That is a worked example. Use the terms displayed beside the real price, rather than carrying those four places over to your own selection. A top-ten bet may give you a different number of acceptable results.

Semi-Final Qualification

An act could scrape through in tenth and still fulfil a To Qualify selection. Its work for that bet is done when it gets through the semi-final named in the market.

Start with the draw when assessing its prospects. Who else is trying to get through that particular show? A song does not have to finish ahead of every other entry in the contest to earn one of those ten places.

The points arrive from two sources in the final: juries and viewers. Each ranking supplies 12 points for first place, 10 for second, 8 for third, then 7 down to 1 to complete the top ten.

Viewers in participating countries cannot vote for their own entry. There is also a Rest of the World audience vote, with those votes combined into one additional set of points.

Juries also have a say in who gets through the semi-finals. They returned in 2026, and remain part of qualification in the published 2027 rules. Anyone working from the 2023-25 system needs to account for that change.

The broadcasts explain how and when to vote from where you are watching. A country backed on your bet slip has not received a public vote from you unless you separately cast one.

The favourite is whoever has the shortest odds in the current winner market. Check the year on that market first.

You can see plenty of movement between an artist announcement and rehearsals, especially once there is a song to listen to. If you back a country before hearing it, that is part of the uncertainty you are accepting. There is no promise of a bigger price for going early.

YouTube comments can be entertaining company while listening to the entries. They cannot tell you that the people writing them will vote, how often they have replayed the clip, or what the wider audience will make of it on the night.

By May, you may have heard your favourite entry fifty times. You know the quiet opening leads somewhere, and you are waiting for the chorus. A viewer encountering it for the first time may have made up their mind before that arrives.

There is a similar problem with rehearsal footage. A clip filmed from the back of the room will not necessarily show what the television cameras are doing. Hold off judging a staging choice until you have seen how it comes across in the broadcast.

Your own playlist is allowed to be personal. A winner bet asks something else of that favourite song: it has to collect enough points from juries and viewers, including plenty of people who will never have discussed the entries online.

DARA gave Bulgaria its first victory in 2026, finishing with 516 points for Bangaranga. She led both the jury and public scores, collecting 204 and 312 points respectively. Austria's JJ had won the previous contest with Wasted Love.

The missing year is 2020, when the pandemic led to cancellation.

After signing in, go to Entertainment from the sports betting page and look for Eurovision when markets are listed. Anyone joining needs to finish registration and the required account checks first.

Choosing a price puts the entry on your slip. If you have been moving between position markets, pause to check what you have chosen. The slip needs to show the result you meant to back, alongside the stake, odds and potential return. For each way, include both parts when checking against your planned spending limit.

Our betting offers have their own conditions. Check whether your Eurovision selection qualifies, including any minimum odds or restrictions, before opting in.

If you follow other televised results, BBC Sports Personality of the Year brings another shortlist to weigh up towards the end of the year. Its voting arrangements are separate from Eurovision's.

UK General Election odds are available in the politics section too. There, a selection on most seats concerns the constituency results, rather than the national vote share.