{"id":485210,"date":"2026-05-15T00:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/485210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:53:12","slug":"eurovision-2026-running-order-for-the-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/485210\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2026: Running order for the Grand Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The producer of this year&#8217;s Eurovision, the Austrian broadcaster \u00d6sterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), has decided the running order for the Grand Final at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. Over the last 12 years the shows&#8217; producers have decided the running order based on an allocation draw.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/esc\/eurovision-2026-draws-for-the-running-order-in-the-grand-final\" title=\"Eurovision 2026: Draws for the running order in the Grand Final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">draw<\/a> took place shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/esc\/eurovision-2026-semi-final-1-the-10-songs-qualified-for-the-grand-final\" title=\"Semi-final 1: The 10 songs qualified for the Grand Final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semi-final 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/esc\/eurovision-2026-semi-final-2-the-10-songs-qualified-for-the-grand-final\" title=\"Semi-final 2: The 10 songs qualified for the Grand Final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semi-final 2<\/a>. Here, half of the participants were distributed in the first or second half of the Grand Final. The other half was in the category &#8220;Producer Decides,&#8221; meaning that the Austrian producer ORF could freely decide where to put these countries in the running order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/esc\/eurovision-2026-draws-for-the-running-order-in-the-grand-final\" title=\"Eurovision 2026: Draws for the running order in the Grand Final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/eurovision-2026-final-draw_t.jpg\" alt=\"Eurovision 2026 Final Draw\" title=\"Eurovision 2026 Final Draw\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related storyDraws for the running order in the Grand Final<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right after the 10 qualifiers from the second Semi-final were decided, the producers of the contest started laying the puzzle to ensure variety in the Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p>It had already been decided via a draw that host country Austria will perform as song number 25 in the Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/esc\/scorecards-for-eurovision-2026-download-print\" title=\"Scorecards for Eurovision 2026 - Download &amp; print\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/scorecards_banner.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" alt=\"Eurovision 2026 Scorecards\"\/><\/a>Eurovision Song Contest 2026<\/p>\n<p>The 70th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in May 2026. The contest will be held in Vienna, Austria and produced by \u00d6sterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/eurovision\/2026\/event\" title=\"Eurovision Song Contest 2026: Vienna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Location<\/a>: Vienna, Austria<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/eurovision\/2026\/event\" title=\"Eurovision Song Contest 2026: Vienna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Participants<\/a>: 35<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/eurovision\/2026\/semi-final-1\" title=\"Eurovision 2026 Semi-final 1 Results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semi-final 1<\/a>: 12 May 2026: The 10 best songs qualified for the Grand Final<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/eurovision\/2026\/semi-final-2\" title=\"Eurovision 2026 Semi-final 2 Results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semi-final 2<\/a>: 14 May 2026: The 10 best songs qualified for the Grand Final<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurovisionworld.com\/eurovision\/2026\" title=\"Eurovision 2026 Results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Final<\/a>: 16 May 2026: 25 participants \u2013 Austria, Big-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom), 10 best from Semi-final 1, 10 best from Semi-final 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The producer of this year&#8217;s Eurovision, the Austrian broadcaster \u00d6sterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), has decided the running order for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[212052,47309,18,117,47308,10893,19,17,124429,212051,128,47312],"class_list":{"0":"post-485210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-draw","9":"tag-ebu","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-esc","13":"tag-eurovision","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-orf","17":"tag-running-order","18":"tag-tv","19":"tag-vienna-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116575864701657207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}