Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Azerbaijan
Member station	İTV
National selection events	Junior (2012); Internal Selection (2013)
Participation summary
Appearances	2
First appearance	2012
Last appearance	2013
Best result	7th: 2013
Worst result	11th: 2012
External links
	Azerbaijan’s page at Eurovision.tv
	For the most recent participation see; Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013

Azerbaijandebuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contestin 2012.^[1] In 2008, İTVannounced that Azerbaijan would take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Limassol, but then withdrew before the contest, because there were too few candidates for the national selection and consequently canceled its debut. After taking part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013, Azerbaijan withdrew from the contest, because of the poor results and has not participated since.

Participation[edit]

Table key

1st place 2nd place 3rd place Last place

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Place	Points
2012	Suada Alakbarova & Omar Sultanov	“Girls and Boys” (Dünya Sənindir)	Azerbaijani, English	11	49
2013	Rustam Karimov	“Me and My Guitar”	Azerbaijani, English	7	66
Did not participate between 2014 and 2016

Photogallery[edit]

Rustam Karimov at Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013, Kiev.

Broadcasts and voting[edit]

Commentators and spokespersons[edit]

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.^[2] The Azerbaijani broadcaster, İTV, send their own commentary team to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Azerbaijani language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Azerbaijan. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2012.