List of Junior Eurovision Song Contest winners

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest is an annual contest organized between member countries of the European Broadcasting Union for children aged between 9 and 14 (8 and 15 between 2003 and 2006, 10 and 15 between 2007 and 2015). This junior contest has been broadcast every year since its debut in 2003, and is based on the senior version entitled Eurovision Song Contest, one of the longest-running television programmes in the world since the debut in 1956. The contest's winner has been determined using numerous voting techniques throughout its history; centre to these have been the awarding of points to countries by juries or televoters. The country awarded the most points is declared the winner.

Left: Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian winner at Junior Eurovision 2005. Center: Bzikebi, the winning artists from Georgia at Junior Eurovision 2008. Right: Gaia Cauchi from Malta, winner of Junior Eurovision 2013, in Kiev, Ukraine

There have been 18 contests, with one winner each year. Twelve different countries have won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Seven have won the contest once: Armenia, Croatia, France, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, and the Netherlands. Four have won the contest twice: Belarus, Malta, Poland (first country to win back to back) and Russia. The country with the highest number of wins is Georgia, with three wins. Both Croatia and Italy achieved their wins on their debut participation in the contest. Macedonia is the country with the longest history in the contest without a win having made fifteen appearances since their debut in 2003.

Winning the Junior Eurovision Song Contest provides an opportunity for the winning artist(s) to capitalise on their success and surrounding publicity by launching or furthering their international career. Some artists from Junior Eurovision have progressed later in their careers to participate in national selection finals for the senior Eurovision Song Contest, including Molly Sandén who represented Sweden in 2006 and later took part in the 2009, 2012 and 2016 Melodifestivalen.[1] Nevena Božović represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as part of Moje 3 and became the first contestant to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest after competing in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, where she came third in 2007.[2] The Tolmachevy Sisters are the second contestants to do so, participating (and placing 7th) in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 after winning the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with their entry, "Vesenniy jazz" (English: Spring Jazz, Cyrillic: Весенний джаз).[3]

2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 are years that a country has won and has hosted the following year's edition.

Winners by year
Year Host city Date No. contestants Winner Song Performer(s) R/O Language Points
2003 Copenhagen 15 November 16  Croatia "Ti si moja prva ljubav" Dino Jelusić 2 Croatian 134
2004 Lillehammer 20 November 18  Spain "Antes muerta que sencilla" María Isabel 15 Spanish 171
2005 Hasselt 26 November 16 Belarus "My vmeste" (Мы вместе) Ksenia Sitnik 16 Russian 149
2006 Bucharest 2 December 15  Russia "Vesenniy jazz" (Весенний джаз) Tolmachevy Sisters 15 Russian 154
2007 Rotterdam 8 December 17 Belarus "S druz'yami" (С друзьями) Alexey Zhigalkovich 17 Russian 137
2008 Limassol 22 November 15  Georgia "Bzz.." Bzikebi 6 Imaginary 154
2009 Kiev 21 November 13  Netherlands "Click Clack" Ralf Mackenbach 7 Dutch, English 121
2010 Minsk 20 November 14  Armenia "Mama" (Մամա) Vladimir Arzumanyan 10 Armenian 120
2011 Yerevan 3 December 13  Georgia "Candy Music" CANDY 12 Georgian 108
2012 Amsterdam 1 December 12  Ukraine "Nebo" (Небо) Anastasiya Petryk 9 Ukrainian, English 138
2013 Kiev 30 November 12  Malta "The Start" Gaia Cauchi 11 English 130
2014 Marsa 15 November 16  Italy "Tu primo grande amore" Vincenzo Cantiello 11 Italian, English 159
2015 Sofia 21 November 17  Malta "Not My Soul" Destiny Chukunyere 15 English 185
2016 Valletta 20 November 17  Georgia "Mzeo" (მზეო) Mariam Mamadashvili 17 Georgian 239
2017 Tbilisi 26 November 16  Russia "Wings" Polina Bogusevich 13 Russian, English 188
2018 Minsk 25 November 20  Poland "Anyone I Want to Be" Roksana Węgiel 20 Polish, English 215
2019 Gliwice 24 November 19  Poland "Superhero" Viki Gabor 11 Polish, English 278
2020 Warsaw 29 November 12  France "J'imagine" Valentina 12 French 200

Winners by country
Map showing each country's number of Junior Eurovision Song Contest wins (by color)
Wins Country Years
3  Georgia
2  Belarus
 Russia
 Malta
 Poland
1
 Croatia 2003
 Spain 2004
 Netherlands 2009
 Armenia 2010
 Ukraine 2012
 Italy 2014
 France 2020

Winners by language

Since the contest began in 2003, all nations competing must sing in the national language (or national languages) of the country being represented, with at least 60% of the song having to be in the national language/s of the country.

Wins Language Years Countries
8 English 2009,[lower-alpha 1] 2012,[lower-alpha 2] 2013, 2014,[lower-alpha 3] 2015, 2017,[lower-alpha 4] 2018,[lower-alpha 5] 2019[lower-alpha 5] Netherlands, Ukraine, Malta, Italy, Russia, Poland
4 Russian 2005, 2006, 2007, 2017[lower-alpha 6] Belarus, Russia
2 Georgian 2011, 2016 Georgia
Polish 2018,[lower-alpha 6] 2019[lower-alpha 6] Poland
1 Croatian 2003 Croatia
Spanish 2004 Spain
Imaginary 2008 Georgia
Dutch 2009[lower-alpha 6] Netherlands
Armenian 2010 Armenia
Ukrainian 2012[lower-alpha 6] Ukraine
Italian 2014[lower-alpha 6] Italy
French 2020 France

See also

Notes and references

Footnotes
      1. This song was partially sung in Dutch.
      2. This song was partially sung in Ukrainian.
      3. This song was partially sung in Italian.
      4. This song was partially sung in Russian.
      5. This song was partially sung in Polish.
      6. This song was partially sung in English.

      References
      1. "Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 - About Molly Sandén". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
      2. Waddell, Nathan (3 March 2013). "Moje 3 win the ticket to Malmö!". escXtra. Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
      3. "Junior Eurovision Song Contest - Russia". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
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