European Music Festival 2022

The European Music Festival 2022 is planned to be the 7th edition of the annual European Music Festival, organised by Sveriges Television (SVT) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest will be held in Sweden, following the country’s victory at the 2021 edition in Tirana, Albania with the song “Little Tot”, performed by Dotter. This will be the first time the contest is held in Sweden.

Bidding phase and host city selection
After Sweden's victory in 2021 contest in Tirana, the Swedish Head of Delegation Karin Gunnarsson stated that Sveriges Television (SVT) is keen to host the 2022 contest. On 10 December 2021, it was confirmed by the EBU that Sweden would host the 2022 contest. The contest is set to take place in Sweden in 2022.

On 28 December 2021, Malmö was announced as the host city of the contest and that the broadcaster will host the contest at the 15,500 capacity Malmö Arena - It is the first time in the history of the contset, that the capacity of Country is not hosting the contest. Also on the same date EBU and host broadcaster SVT announced that the contest will be held on 16 October 2022

Hosts
On 14 June 2022, it was announced that Christer Björkman, Petra Mede and Oscar Zia would host the contest

Voting
The results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. The online voting is taking place during the live show and starts after the last performance and is open for 15 minutes. International viewers could vote for one country three Times from one phone number. The other half of the points was determined by a national jury from every participating country. These points are then announced live during the programme by a spokesperson representing the participating country. The spokespersons give out the points from each of the participating country.

Running order
TBA

Participating countries
On 12 February 2022, the EBU released the official list of participants with 26 competing countries.