UMK: how Finland picks its Eurovision entry

Finland is one of the countries whose place in 2027 is already settled, and its national final is one of the few with a date that is not a guess. This page holds both, and stops where the announcements stop.

Finland is in

Finland's broadcaster, Yle, is listed as confirmed for Eurovision 2027 on our tracker, the only place on this site where that status is allowed to change. The tracker's rule is that a confirmation needs an official source, or two independent outlets — never one outlet plus a Wikipedia table. Finland stands on the board as confirmed, and the Finland page carries the evidence count beside the status.

UMK 2027: date, arena, new producer — as reported

Three things about UMK 2027 have been reported. Yle's own page is not cited for any of them, so this page carries them as reports, the same way the calendar does.

That is the whole list. The line-up, the number of songs, the running order and the way the result is decided are Yle's to publish, and this page will not fill the gaps with last year's shape. A national final is the broadcaster's show, and the broadcaster announces it.

What the date does tell you is where Finland sits in the season. UMK sits on the calendar among February's national finals. Like almost every date that month, it is there as an outlet's report rather than a broadcaster's announcement, and the row carries its evidence.

The Saturday it shares

20 February 2027 is also the closing night of Sanremo, reported by Eurovoix for 16 to 20 February at the Teatro Ariston. Two of the season's reported dates land on the same evening, one in Tampere and one in Sanremo.

For a reader following both, that is a clash. For the calendar it is a marker: as of writing, it is the only evening of the selection season with two reported finals on it.

Finland's record

Finland first entered in 1961. Its one win came in 2006, at the 51st contest in Athens, in the Olympic Indoor Hall: Lordi, "Hard Rock Hallelujah", a hard rock band in latex monster masks, winning at the 45th time of asking. The archive's note on the country is the same fact from the other side — Finland waited 45 years for its first win, then took it with a band in monster masks.

The win brought the contest to Helsinki. The 52nd contest, in 2007, was held at the Hartwall Arena and won by Serbia with "Molitva", sung by Marija Šerifović — Serbia's first entry as an independent country.

That is the entire win column. The Finland page holds what this archive verifies, and nothing it does not.

What is not settled for 2027

• The UMK line-up and the song Finland will send. Yle announces both, on its own timetable.
• Which semi-final Finland sings in. That is decided by the allocation draw, which has fallen in mid-to-late January at the last three contests (30 January 2024, 28 January 2025, 12 January 2026). The EBU has not announced the 2027 date, and "usually" is not a date.
• The rules for the 71st contest, which the EBU republishes for each edition.

What is settled is the contest itself: Semi-Final 1 on Tuesday 11 May, Semi-Final 2 on Thursday 13 May and the Grand Final on Saturday 15 May 2027, at Arena Burgas. If the format holds, Finland sings on one of the first two dates. Which one, nobody can yet say.