Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi Will Host The Semi-Final Allocation Draw

One of the important milestones for any Eurovision edition is the semi-final allocation draw.
As it has reported previously, the ceremony will take place
The event will be held on Tuesday, the 30th of January 2024 at 19:00 CET and will be available to watch via a live stream on YouTube

The ceremony will also include the Host City Insignia Exchange.
Liverpool will give Malmö the symbol of the host city.
The Mayor of the 2023 Host City, Steve Rotheram, will hand over the official keys to the Eurovision Song Contest, known as the “Insignia“, to the Mayor of Malmö, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh

And now we also have the hosts! Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi will lead the exciting ceremony.

Pernilla Månsson Colt is a Swedish is a 56 year-old Swedish television presenter, producer, editor, and journalist. She hosted the ceremony back in 2013 as well.

Pernilla commented:

It will be great fun to kick off Sweden’s Eurovision year from Malmö, and The Draw can be more important than you might think for the competition later!

Farah Abadi is a 35 year-old Swedish radio and TV host. She was the green-room host at “Melodifestivalen 2022”, and in addition was the co-host of “Melodifestivalen 2023”.

This is the kick-off for Eurovision and it’s extra fun to be able to do the program together with Pernilla, particularly as it’s in our hometown Malmö!

Since 2008, when Eurovision started to include 2 semi-finals,
EBU builds country pots for the purpose of reducing political and neighborly voting between countries.

The 31 countries that participate in the semi-finals will be allocated into 5-6 pots, based on historical voting patterns as calculated by the contest’s official televoting partner Digame.

Each pot will include 5-7 countries. From each pot, half of the countries will be allocated in the first semi-final and the remaining countries will be allocated in the second semi-final.
In addition, the 31 semi-finalists will be allocated to one of the halves of the corresponding show.

Each country among the 6 automatic qualifiers: France, Spain, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Sweden – will be drawn in one of the semi-finals where they will broadcast and be able to vote in.

In which semi-final would your country perform?
Eurovision 2024 will be held in Malmö, Sweden.
The semi-final will be held on the 7th and 9th of May 2024, and the grand final will be held on the 11h of May 2024