The Eurovision Trophy. Photograph courtesy of Andres Putting (EBU/EUROVISION)

Eurovision 2014 now has a line up of participating countries for the contest. The semi final draw will take place on Monday January 20th at 13:00 CET and we will be covering the show live

List of 37 Participating Countries

• Albania (RTSH),
• Armenia (AMPTV),
• Austria (ORF),
• Azerbaijan (Ictimai TV),
• Belarus (BTRC),
• Belgium (VRT),
• Denmark (DR),
• Estonia (ERR),
• Finland (YLE),
• France (France 3),
• Georgia (GPB),
• Germany (NDR),
• Greece (NERIT),
• Hungary (MTV),
• Iceland (RÚV),
• Ireland (RTÉ),
• Israel (IBA),
• Italy (RAI),
• Latvia (LTV),
• Lithuania (LRT),
• FYR Macedonia (MKRTV),
• Malta (PBS),
• Moldova (TRM),
• Montenegro (RTCG),
• The Netherlands (AvroTros),
• Norway (NRK),
• Poland (TVP),
• Portugal (RTP),
• Romania (TVR),
• Russia (RTR),
• San Marino (SRMTV),
• Slovenia (RTVSlo)
• Spain (TVE),
• Sweden (SVT),
• Switzerland (SRG SSR),
• United Kingdom (BBC)
• Ukraine (NTU).

The Pots for the Semi Final Draw have already been drawn – See HERE

The Big 5 and The Host Nation are the 6 Automatic Qualifiers for the Grand Final – United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Denmark. This means that 31 countries will be divided between Semi Final 1 and Semi Final 2 – 15 in one and 16 in another (no confirmation which will be the larger semi final as of yet)

All will be decided on Monday so #JoinUs for the live coverage.

Author/Website co-founder and Editor in Chief Garrett Mulhall

Source : Eurovision Ireland