Morocco at the Eurovision Song Contest

Balance sheet

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Broadcasting company

First participation

1980

Last participation so far

1980

Number of participations

1 (as of 1980)

Highest ranking

18 ( 1980 )

Highest Score

7 (1980)

Lowest Score

7 (1980)

Points average (since first post)

7.00 (as of 1980)

Average points per voting country in the 12-point system

0.39 (as of 1980)

This article looks at the history of Morocco as a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest .

Regularity of participation and successes in competition

Samira Saïd on her postcard from the Eurovision Song Contest 1980

Morocco took part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time and once only in 1980. However, this participation was not very successful. So the country only reached the penultimate place. In 1981 the country withdrew from the competition and has since refrained from participating.

To date, Morocco is the only Arab country that has ever participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. Two other Arab countries were about to take part, but withdrew: Lebanon entered the competition in 2005 with the singer Aline Lahoud and the title Quand tout s'enfuit . Even Tunisia signed up already at a song contest, namely the Euro Vision Song Contest 1977 . In both cases, however, the simultaneous participation of Israel was a reason for the later withdrawal.

Due to a possible cancellation by Israel in 2015, the Moroccan broadcaster 2MTV reported interest in the song contest and tried in vain to gain entry into the EBU . However, as Israel confirmed its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 , Morocco canceled its participation on October 31, 2014 and again stayed away from the competition. However, the country sent a delegation to the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna for observation. Since then, Morocco has not spoken out about participating and has not been on the list of participants every year.

List of posts

Color legend: - 1st place. - 2nd place. - 3rd place. - Equal points with last place. - Eliminated in the semifinals / in the qualification / in the Eastern European preliminary decision. - no participation / not qualified.     

year	Interpreter	Title Music (M) and Text (T)	language	translation	final		Semi-final / qualification		National preliminary decision
					space	Points	space	Points
1980	Samira Said سميرة سعيد	Bitakat raised بطاقة حب M: Abdel Ati Amenna; T: Malou Rouanne	Arabic	Message of love	18/19	7th	Direct participation		internal selection
since 1981	No participation

National preliminary decisions

Morocco's only contribution to the Song Contest was selected internally. This makes Morocco the only country besides Monaco that has ever participated in the Song Contest and never held a national preliminary decision.

languages

Since Morocco only participated in 1980 and at that time the rule still existed that the respective country had to present its songs in the national language, Morocco sang in Arabic . This marked the first appearance of this language in the competition. In 2009 this language appeared again when Israel presented its song partly in Arabic and in 2019 when Italy presented a short part of the song "Soldi" in Arabic.

Scoring

The following countries received the most points from or awarded the most points to Morocco (status: 1980):

Most of the points awarded space country Points 1  Turkey 12 2  Germany 10 3  United Kingdom 08th 4th  Switzerland 07th 5  Sweden 06th

Most received points space country Points 1  Italy 7th

Award of the highest rating

In 1980 Morocco gave Turkey the highest number of points.

Sustaining land
year	country	space
1980	Turkey	15th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk
2. ↑ ndrtv.de ( Memento from March 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ www3.ebu.ch
4. ↑ wiwibloggs.com