Eurovision Song Contest Debuts
Over the five decades that the Eurovision Song contest has been running there have been 51 different countries that have participated in the contest at least once. They are all listed below alongside the year in which they made their debut.
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- 1956 Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland
- 1957 Austria, Denmark, United Kingdom
- 1958 Sweden
- 1959 Monaco
- 1960 Norway
- 1961 Finland, Spain, Yugoslavia
- 1964 Portugal
- 1965 Ireland
- 1971 Malta
- 1973 Israel
- 1974 Greece
- 1975 Turkey
- 1980 Morocco
- 1981 Cyprus
- 1986 Iceland
- 1993 Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia
- 1994 Estonia, Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania
- 1998FYR Macedonia
- 2000 Latvia
- 2003 Ukraine
- 2004 Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Andorra, Belarus
- 2005 Bulgaria, Moldova
- 2006 Armenia
- 2007 Serbia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Montenegro
- 2008 Azerbaijan, San Marino
