Seventy-one editions, one ticket office
The contest
Three live shows, six rehearsals, thirty-six broadcasters and one winner. Since Vienna 2015 we have run the public allocation for every edition, from the first wave to the last seat.
What it is
A song contest
with a continent in the room
The Eurovision Song Contest began in Lugano in 1956 with seven countries and two songs each. Seventy-one editions later it is the largest live music broadcast in the world: three shows in contest week, a public vote in every participating country, and a national jury in each of them.
The host city is chosen by the winning broadcaster and the EBU. Burgas won the race on 13 August 2026, four months after DARA took the trophy to Bulgaria for the first time. Arena Burgas holds 15,000; the contest uses around 12,000 of them. The rest of the city becomes the festival.
Host city, dates and venue: EBU announcement, 13 August 2026.
The ticket office
Eleven years of public allocation
We are not the broadcaster and we are not the EBU. We are the ticket office that has handled the public allocation since Vienna 2015: the queues, the waves, the four-ticket limit and the e-tickets. Eleven contests, one cancelled year, and the same team on the phones.
That is why the prices on this site are ours rather than official prices, and why we say so plainly. It is also why the allocation is finite: we sell the seats we are given, block by block, and when a block is gone it is gone.
Seven countries, two songs each, Lugano. The contest begins.
Our ticket office takes over the public allocation in Vienna.
Rotterdam cancelled. The first year without a contest.
DARA wins in Vienna — Bulgaria's first trophy, by 173 points.
Burgas. The first contest in Bulgaria, on the Black Sea.
Burgas 2027
Thirty-six broadcasters
The EBU published the list on 28 October 2026. Spain and Slovenia have until December to confirm; Canada takes part for the first time.
Nothing invented
Sources
Every dated claim on this site is traceable. These are the references behind the editorial pages.
The ticket office is a commercial operator and is not the EBU or BNT. Arena Burgas is the venue named by the host broadcaster.