• Dates – Grand Final: Saturday, 09 May, 1992, 21:00 CEST
• Host – Venue & Location: MalmöMässan (Malmö Isstadion), Malmö, 🇸🇪 Sweden
• Presenter (s): Lydia Cappolicchio & Harald Treutiger
• Musical Director: Anders Berglund
• Director: Kåge Gimtell
• Executive Producer: —
• Executive Supervisor: Frank Naef
• Multicamera Director: Kåge Gimtell
• Host broadcaster: Sveriges Television (SVT)
• Opening Act: Carola performing “All the Reasons to Live”
• Interval Act: A Century Of Dance
• Participants – Number of entries: 23 [🇧🇪 Belgium (34ª), 🇩🇪 Germany (34ª), 🇨🇭 Switzerland (34ª), 🇬🇧 United Kindom (32ª), 🇪🇸 Spain (29ª), 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (33ª), 🇫🇮 Finland (28ª), 🇳🇴 Norway (29ª), 🇵🇹 Portugal (25ª), 🇦🇹 Austria (30ª), 🇸🇪 Sweden (30ª), 🇩🇰 Denmark (25ª), 🇹🇷 Turkey (15ª), 🇫🇷 France (33ª), 🇮🇪 Ireland (24ª), 🇮🇱 Israel (16ª), 🇮🇸 Iceland (7ª),  Yugoslavia (26ª), 🇬🇷 Greece (14ª), 🇮🇹 Italy (31ª), 🇨🇾 Cyprus (11ª), 🇲🇹 Malta (5ª), 🇳🇱 The Netherlands (32ª)]
• Debuting countries: —
• Return: 🇳🇱 The Netherlands (32ª)
• Non-returning countries: —
• Vote – Voting system: Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs.
• Nil Points: —
• Winning song: “Why Me?” – Linda Martin –  Ireland (4ª)

About. After having hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm and Gothenburg before, Swedish broadcaster SVT opted to host the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden’s third largest city, Malmö. A new record of participating countries was set in 1992 as the Netherlands returned to the contest and Malta continued to participate. The venue for the show was the MalmöMässan, a large exhibition and conference centre. The stage was in the shape of a Viking ship’s bow and the floor design was an adaption of the EBU’s Eurovision logo. 

Ireland’s record-breaking win. The runner-up in 1984, Linda Martin, won for Ireland this year with the song “Why Me?” composed – once again – by Johnny Logan who had already won the song contest twice before in 1980 and 1987. Johnny Logan entered the record books as having won the Eurovision Song Contest three times; as a performer in 1980, songwriter and performer in 1987 and songwriter in 1992. 

Facts and figures. The pre-contest favourite was the United Kingdom represented by Michael Ball. When the delegation arrived in Malmö they were greeted with the banner which read ‘Welcome Untied Kingdom’; Sweden was represented by Christer Bjorkman who finished in 22nd place, one of Sweden’s worst placings in the Eurovision Song Contest. He would later go on to mastermind the spectacular revival of Sweden’s national selection, Melodifestivalen; The top three songs were all performed in English which led to some delegations complaining that English speaking countries had an unfair advantage. Malta was permitted to sing in English since it is one of the official languages; 1992 marked the last time that Yugoslavia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest.

o/r	country	PaRticipant(s)	SONG – TRANSLATE – LANGUAGE	Points	rank
01	🇪🇸 Spain TVE	Serafín Zubiri	Todo esto es la música (All this is music) Spanish	037	14
02	🇧🇪 Belgium RTBF	Morgane	Nous, on veut des violons (We want violins) French	011	20
03	🇮🇱 Israel IBA	Dafna (דפנה דקל, Dafna Dekel)	Ze rak sport (זה רק ספורט, It’s just sport) Hebrew	085	03
04	🇹🇷 Turkey TRT	Aylin Vatankoş	Yaz bitti (Summer is over) Turkish	017	19
05	🇬🇷 Greece ERT	Cleopatra (Κλεοπάτρα)	Olou tou kosmou i Elpida (Όλου του κόσμου η Ελπίδα, The whole world’s hope) Greek	094	05
06	🇫🇷 France A2F	Kali	Monté la riviè (Montez la rivière, Go up the river) French, Antillean Creole	073	08
07	🇸🇪 Sweden SVT	Christer Björkman	I morgon är en annan dag (Tomorrow is another day) Swedish	009	22
08	🇵🇹 Portugal RTP	Dina	Amor d’água fresca (Fresh water love) Portuguese	026	17
09	🇨🇾 Cyprus CyBC	Evridiki (Ευριδίκη)	Teriazoume (Ταιριάζουμε, We hit it off) Greek	057	11
10	🇲🇹 Malta XM	Mary Spiteri	Little child English	123	03
11	🇮🇸 Iceland RÚV	Heart 2 Heart	Nei eða já (No or yes?) Icelandic	080	07
12	🇫🇮 Finland YLE	Pave Maijanen	Yamma-yamma Finnish	004	23
13	🇨🇭 Switzerland SSR SRG	Daisy Auvray	Mister music man French	032	15
14	🇱🇺 Luxembourg CLT	Marion Welter & Kontinent	Sou fräi (So free) Luxembourgish	010	21
15	🇦🇹 Austria ÖRF	Tony Wegas	Zusammen geh’n (Go together) German	063	10
16	🇬🇧 United Kindom BBC	Michael Ball	One step out of time English	139	02
17	🇮🇪 Ireland RTÉ	Linda Martin	Why me? English	155	01
18	🇩🇰 Denmark DR	Kenny Lübcke & Lotte Nilsson	Åt det som ingen ser (All the things that nobody sees) Danish	047	12
19	🇮🇹 Italy RAI	Mia Martini	Rapsodia (Rhapsody) Italian	111	04
20	Yugoslavia JRT	Extra Nena (Екстра Нена)	Ljubim te pesmama (Љубим те песмама, I’m kissing you with songs) Serbian	044	13
21	🇳🇴 Norway NRK	Merethe Trøan	Visjoner (Visions) Norwegian	023	18
22	🇩🇪 Germany ARD	Wind	Träume sind für alle da (Dreams are there for everyone) German	027	16
23	🇳🇱 The Netherlands NOS	Humphrey Campbell	Wijs me de weg (Show me the way) Dutch	067	09

Missed participation

• 🇨🇭 Switzerland: “Soleil, Soleil” (German) – Géraldine Olivier. Switzerland had to replace its original choice of entry, “Soleil, soleil” which was to have been performed by Géraldine Olivier. The song did not comply with some of the rules of the national selection contest and so, despite having won, it did not go to Malmö. The Swiss broadcaster, SRG SSR idée suisse, hosted a national final to select the Swiss entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, held in Malmö, Sweden. The contest was held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano on 23 February, hosted by Emanuela Gaggini. 10 songs competed, with the winner decided through the votes of 3 regional juries, an expert jury and a press jury. The winner of the contest was Geraldine Olivier with the song “Soleil, soleil”. However after the contest the song was disqualified after it was revealed that the song was inputted into the French-speaking broadcaster, Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR), for their selection for the contest with French lyrics and was rejected, before being entered into the German-speaking broadcaster, Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), and their selection for the contest with German lyrics and accepted. Therefore the song that came second, “Mister Music Man” by Daisy Auvray went to Malmö for Switzerland. “Mister Music Man” was composed by Gordon Dent.

Participant map

Participating countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 1992

ESC 1992 Scoreboard Ι Detailed voting results:

The Eurovision Song Contest 1992 was the 37th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Malmö, Sweden, following the country’s victory at the 1991 contest with the song “Fångad av en stormvind” by Carola. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), the contest was held at the Malmö Isstadion on 9 May 1992 and was hosted by Swedish journalists Lydia Capolicchio and Harald Treutiger.

Twenty-three countries took part in the contest with the Netherlands returning after being absent the year before. This set another record for the most participating countries in the history of the competition, which would be broken again the following year. The 1992 contest also saw the last participation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as they were banned from competing only a few weeks later due to the Yugoslav Wars.

The winner was Ireland with the song “Why Me?” by Linda Martin. The song was written by Johnny Logan, who had won the 1980 contest as singer and the 1987 contest as singer/songwriter. At 41 years of age, Linda Martin became (and remains) the oldest woman ever to win Eurovision.

1.Location. Malmö is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania. The metropolis is a gamma world city (as listed by the GaWC) and is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in Scandinavia, with a population of above 300,000.

Malmö Isstadion, a 4,800-seat indoor sports arena, was chosen as the host venue for the contest. Opened in 1968, it is the former home arena of the Malmö Redhawks ice hockey team, and underwent major renovation in 2013 in time for the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

2.Contest overview. The contest took place at Malmö Isstadion, where the stage set was in the shape of a Viking ship’s bow with a dragon in the centre and stars on each side. The opening sequence included women dressed in the Swedish colours of yellow and blue, twirling ribbons. The filmic postcard tradition was continued with clips based on each country. Last year’s winner, Carola, appeared on stage in a white dress with sheer sleeves, a rhinestone collar and cuffs and sang “All The Reasons To Live”.

The 1992 Eurovision was the biggest contest at that time, with 23 countries competing. Only Monaco and Morocco failed to compete out of all the countries which had entered the contest in the past.

This contest marked the last participation of Yugoslavia, although it was not the same country that had participated from 1961 to 1991, but actually, Serbia and Montenegro, formally known as the “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia”. That was the country’s last entry until 2004, as it was banned from the contest following the sanctions on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 757, following the Bosnian War and Croatian War of Independence.

After scoring second place consecutively (1988, 1989) and scoring some disappointing results (1990, 1991), the United Kingdom sent Michael Ball with a contemporary pop song “One Step Out Of Time”, which was the hot favourite to win the contest. The British delegation was greeted in Malmö with a banner reading “Welcome Untied Kingdom”.

However, the Irish sent Linda Martin, who had the past experience of coming in 2nd place in the 1984 contest and as then paired up once again with Johnny Logan, who had won the contest twice before as a performer. In the end, Linda the contest won for Ireland with a 16-point lead over the United Kingdom, starting the chain of Irish wins in the 1990s. Malta with “Little Child”, performed by Mary Spiteri, also scored very well coming in 3rd place with 123 points. This was the first time that the three highest-placed songs had all been in English. Sweden, the host country, finished 2nd last.

Switzerland had to replace its original choice of entry, “Soleil, soleil” which was to have been performed by Géraldine Olivier. The song did not comply with some of the rules of the national selection contest and so, despite having won, it did not go to Malmö.

The top three songs were all performed in English which led to some delegations complaining that English-speaking countries had an unfair advantage.

3.Participating countries. Each performance had a conductor who led the orchestra. Musical Director Anders Berglund both conducted the entries for Sweden and Yugoslavia and played the accordion parts for the latter.

3.1.Conductors.

3.2.Returning artists.

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Wind	🇩🇪 Germany	1985, 1987
Sigríður Beinteinsdóttir (part of Heart 2 Heart)	🇮🇸 Iceland	1990 (part of Stjórnin)
Linda Martin	🇮🇪 Ireland	1984
Mia Martini	🇮🇹 Italy	1977
Evridiki	🇨🇾 Cyprus	1983 (backing singer for Stavros & Constantina), 1987 (Backing Vocals for Alexia)

3.3.Participants and results.

3.4.All the national selections for Eurovision Song Contest 1992: 

• National Selections in 1992:

• Internal Selections in 1992:

3.5.Connections:

4.Detailed voting results. Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs.

Detailed voting results

		Total score
C o n t e s t a n t s	🇪🇸 Spain	37		1		1	4	6				2		3		3	2	1		1	7		5		1
	🇧🇪 Belgium	11	3			4		3								1
	🇮🇱 Israel	85	10			2		8	4	7	4	7			4	8	1	7		2		12	2	4	3
	🇹🇷 Turkey	17										8							3			6
	🇬🇷 Greece	94			7	8		7	3	5	12		2	5	10		4				12	7	8		4
	🇫🇷 France	73	6		12	3					3			7	12				5		6		10	3	6
	🇸🇪 Sweden	9						1												4		4
	🇵🇹 Portugal	26			8		2							2							1	5		8
	🇨🇾 Cyprus	57			3		10	2		2		1		8	2				6		4	8	3		8
	🇲🇹 Malta	123	12	10			7		12	12	1		8		5	12	8		10	8	3	10			5
	🇮🇸 Iceland	80	8	4	4		6		6	6					3	5	7	12		5	5		1	6	2
	🇫🇮 Finland	4			1																	3
	🇨🇭 Switzerland	32		5									12					4	1		10
	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	10										10
	🇦🇹 Austria	63	2	8			8		1	3	8	4						10	12	7
	🇬🇧 United Kindom	139	5	12	2	10		10	5		6	6	4	6	8	7	12		7	12	8			12	7
	🇮🇪 Ireland	155	1	7		12	12		10	4	5	12	7	10	6	10	10	8		10	2	2	7	10	10
	🇩🇰 Denmark	47	4		6				7	1			6			6	3	3					6	5
	🇮🇹 Italy	111				5	3	12	8	8	10	5	10	12	7		6						12	1	12
	Yugoslavia	44			10	6	1	5			2	3	5	4		2			4					2
	🇳🇴 Norway	23		3					2				1	1		4		5		6		1
	🇩🇪 Germany	27		6						10								6	2	3
	🇳🇱 The Netherlands	67	7	2	5	7	5	4			7		3		1		5	2	8				4	7

4.1.12 points. Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
4	🇮🇹 Italy	🇫🇮 Finland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇳🇱 The Netherlands, 🇳🇴 Norway
	🇲🇹 Malta	🇱🇺 Luxembourg, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden
	🇬🇧 United Kindom	🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇩🇪 Germany
3	🇮🇪 Ireland	🇬🇷 Greece, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇹🇷 Turkey
2	🇫🇷 France	🇮🇱 Israel , 🇨🇭 Switzerland
	🇬🇷 Greece	🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇮🇹 Italy
1	🇦🇹 Austria	🇮🇪 Ireland
	🇮🇸 Iceland	🇬🇧 United Kindom
	🇮🇱 Israel	Yugoslavia
	🇨🇭 Switzerland	🇮🇸 Iceland

4.2.Spokespersons. Each country announced their votes in the order of performance. The following is a list of spokespersons who announced the votes for their respective country.

5.Broadcasts. National broadcasters were able to send a commentary team to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. The contest was broadcast in 44 countries, including Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	–
🇦🇹 Austria	FS1	Ernst Grissemann
	Hitradio Ö3	Martin Blumenau
🇧🇪 Belgium	RTBF1	French: Claude Delacroix
	BRTN TV1	Dutch: André Vermeulen	–
	RTBF La Première	French: Stéphane Dupont and Patrick Duhamel
	BRTN Radio 2	Dutch: Julien Put
🇨🇾 Cyprus	RIK 1	Evi Papamichail
	RIK Deftero	Pavlos Pavlou
🇩🇰 Denmark	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
	DR P3	Jørgen de Mylius, Jesper Bæhrenz and Andrew Jensen
🇫🇮 Finland	YLE TV1	Erkki Pohjanheimo and Kati Bergman
	Radiomafia	Sanna Kojo
🇫🇷 France	Antenne 2	Thierry Beccaro
	France Inter	Marc-Olivier Fogiel
🇩🇪 Germany	Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen	Jan Hofer
	Deutschlandfunk/WDR 4	Horst Senker
🇬🇷 Greece	ET1	Dafni Bokota
	ERA 1	Giorgos Mitropoulos
🇮🇸 Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Árni Snævarr	–
🇮🇪 Ireland	RTÉ 1	Pat Kenny
	RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
🇮🇱 Israel	Israeli Television	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Yitzhak Shim’oni
🇮🇹 Italy	Rai Due	Peppi Franzelin
	Rai Radio 2	Antonio De Robertis
🇱🇺 Luxembourg	RTL Hei Elei	Maurice Molitor
🇲🇹 Malta	TVM	Anna Bonanno
🇳🇱 The Netherlands	Nederland 3	Willem van Beusekom	–
	Radio 2	Daniël Dekker
🇳🇴 Norway	NRK	John Andreassen
	NRK P1	Nadia Hasnaoui
🇵🇹 Portugal	RTP Canal 1	Eládio Clímaco
🇪🇸 Spain	La 2	José Luis Uribarri
🇸🇪 Sweden	TV2	Jesper Aspegren and Björn Kjellman
	SR P3	Kalle Oldby and Lotta Engberg
🇨🇭 Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Mariano Tschuor
	TSR	French: Ivan Frésard
	TSI	Italian: Emanuela Gaggini
🇹🇷 Turkey	TV1	Bülend Özveren
	TRT Radyo 3	Canan Kumbasar
🇬🇧 United Kindom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	–
	BBC Radio 2	Ken Bruce	–
Yugoslavia	TVB 1	Mladen Popović
	Radio Belgrade 1	Dina Čolić

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	–
🇭🇺 Hungary	MTV1	István Vágó
Macedonia	MTV 1	Jon Ilija Apelgrin
🇵🇱 Poland	TVP1	Artur Orzech and Maria Szabłowska
🇷🇺 Russia	RTR	Unknown	–
🇸🇮 Slovenia	SLO1	Miša Molk

6.Notes.

• [a] Marion Welter was internally selected to represent Luxembourg at Eurovision 1992. The song “Sou Fräi” that Marion performed at Eurovision was selected through a national final with only two songs.
• [b] Michael Ball was internally selected to represent United Kingdom at Eurovision 1992. The song “One Step Out Of Time” that Ball performed at Eurovision was selected through A Song for Europe 1992 with eight songs.

7.Trivial / Fun facts.

• Switzerland’s Daisy came 2nd in the country’s national preselection, but the original winner was disqualified.

← Eurovision Song Contest 1991 • Eurovision Song Contest 1992 • Eurovision Song Contest 1993 →
Countries (in order of appearance)
Final	Spain ⦁ Belgium ⦁ Israel ⦁ Turkey ⦁ Greece ⦁ France ⦁ Sweden ⦁ Portugal ⦁ Cyprus ⦁ Malta • Iceland ⦁ Finland ⦁ Switzerland ⦁ Luxembourg • Austria • United Kingdom ⦁ Ireland (winner) ⦁ Denmark ⦁ Italy ⦁ Yugoslavia ⦁ Norway ⦁ Germany ⦁ The Netherlands
Artists (in order of appearance)
Final	Serafín ⦁ Morgane ⦁ Dafna ⦁ Aylin Vatankoş ⦁ Cleopatra ⦁ Kali ⦁ Christer Björkman ⦁ Dina ⦁ Evridiki ⦁ Mary Spiteri ⦁ Heart 2 Heart • Pave ⦁ Daisy Auvray ⦁ Marion Welter and Kontinent ⦁ Tony Wegas • Michael Ball • Linda Martin (winner) ⦁ Lotte Nilsson and Kenny Lübcke • Mia Martini • Extra Nena ⦁ Merethe Trøan ⦁ Wind  ⦁ Humphrey Campbell
Songs (in order of appearance)
Final	“Todo esto es la música” ⦁ “Nous, on veut des violons” ⦁ “Ze Rak Sport” (זה רק ספורט) ⦁ “Yaz Bitti” ⦁ “Olou tou kosmou i Elpida” (Όλου του κόσμου η Ελπίδα) ⦁ “Monté la riviè” ⦁ “I morgon är en annan dag” ⦁ “Amor d’água fresca” ⦁ “Teriazoume” (Ταιριάζουμε) ⦁ “Little Child” ⦁ “Nei eða já“ • “Yamma, yamma” ⦁ “Mister Music Man” ⦁ “Sou fräi” ⦁ “Zusammen geh’n” • “One Step Out of Time” • “Why Me?” (winner) • “Alt det som ingen ser” • “Rapsodia” • “Ljubim te pesmama” (Љубим те песмама) • “Visjoner” • “Träume sind für alle da” • “Wijs me de weg“
Non-participating entries: Switzerland: Géraldine Olivier – “Soleil, Soleil”