Croatia: “Dora 2025” Format and Additional Details Have Been Revealed

For the 7th year in a row, Croatia will select its Eurovision entry via the music festival “Dora”.
24 artists will compete in the national selection in the following running order:

Semi-Final 1 (27 February 2025)

1. Matt Saft – “Welcome to the Circus”
2. Jelena Radan – “SALUT!”
3. Nipplepeople – “Znak”
4. Swingers –”Ful Kul” (Eng: Fool Cool)“
5. Marta May – “Running to the Light”
6. LELEK – “The Soul of my Soul”
7. TTeenah – “Aurora”
8. IVXN – “Monopol”
9. Marko Tolja – “Through the Dark”
10. Magazin – “AaAaA”
11. Natally – “Dom si srcu mom”
12. EoT – “Bye, Bye, Bye”

Semi-Final 2 (28 February 2025)

1. laurakojapjeva – “NPC”
2. Marko Škugor – “Šta da Boga molim ja”
3. Fenksta – “Ekstra“
4. Marin Jurić Čivro – “Gorjelo je”
5. Filomena – “Strong”
6. Supersonic Trio – “Animal”
7. Irma – “Enigma”
8. Luka Nižetić – “Južina”
9. Ananda – “Lies Lay Cold”
10. Marko Bošnjak – “Poison Cake”
11. Petar Brkljačić – “Kraj”
12. Ogenj – “Daj, daj”

Playlist:

Spotify

AppleMusic

YouTube Playlist

In addition, HRT revealed the full details and format:

“Dora 2025” – Known Details

1. Barbara Kolar and Duško Ćurlić will host the shows
2. “Dora 2025” will feature 3 shows:
   • Semi-Final 1: Thursday, February 27th 2025
   • Semi-Final 2: Friday, February 28th 2025
   • Grand Final: Sunday, March 2nd 2025
3. In addition, 2 special non-competitive shows will be broadcast:
   • “The Blue Carpet” – Welcoming all the artists (February 26th)
   •  “Opatija bajna” – Special tribute to the city of Opatija and traditional music from 1960 (March 1st)
4. “Dora 2025” winner will be selected by combining an expert jury and a public vote.
5. The voting format for the semi-finals will be based on the following mechanism:
   • 12 artists will compete in each semi-final, and 8 of them will make it to the final.
   • The semi-final results will be based on a 100% public vote.
6. The voting format for the final will be:
   • 16 artists will compete in the final. The results will be based on a 50% jury votes and a 50% public vote
   • The jury will feature 8 different jury panels, each of them consisting 3 members.
   • 4 jury panels will be national jury: Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, and Osijek
   • An additional 4 jury panels will be international juries from Armenia, Finland, Slovenia, and Spain
   • The jury votes and public votes will add up to the same amount of points, so the votes will be based on a proportional system
7. Each of the shows will see special guests who will perform their songs:
   • Nina Badrić (Croatia, Eurovision 2012) – Semi-Final 1
   • Alessandra (Norway, Eurovision 2023) – Semi-Final 2
   • Baby Lasagna (Croatia, Eurovision 2024) – Final

Croatia was allocated to perform in the second half of semi-final 1.
Eurovision 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland, on the 13th, 15th, and 17th of May 2025