Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest
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| Member station | CyBC |
| National selection events |
National Final
Internal Selection
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| Appearances | |
| Appearances | 33 (27 finals) |
| First appearance | 1981 |
| Best result | 5th: 1982, 1997, 2004 |
| Worst result | Last: 1986 |
| External links | |
| CyBC page | |
| Cyprus's page at Eurovision.tv | |
 For the most recent participation seeCyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 |
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Cyprus has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 33 times since making its debut in 1981. Cyprus' first entry was the group Island, who finished sixth. The country's best result in the contest is three fifth-place finishes, in 1982 with Anna Vissi, 1997 with Hara & Andreas Constantinou and 2004 with Lisa Andreas.
Since 2006, Cyprus failed to qualify from the semi-final round for six out of eight years (2006–2013), before withdrawing from the 2014 contest. On 14 July 2014, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) officially confirmed their return to the contest in 2015.
Since its first entry, Cyprus has participated every year except 1988, 2001 and 2014. In 1988, Cyprus withdrew its entry after broadcaster CyBC determined that the intended entry was ineligible; the song had been entered (but not selected) in the 1984 national selection process, which was a violation of the Cypriot selection rules. In 2001, the country did not qualify for the contest due to insufficiently high average scores in previous contests, according to the qualification process at the time. In 2014, the broadcaster decided to withdraw from the contest and cited public indifference and the economic crisis for not taking part.
Most of the Cypriot entries have been sung in Greek or English; the exceptions are in 2000, in which the song "Nomiza" included both Greek and Italian, and in the 2007 contest, in which Evridiki performed "Comme Ci, Comme Ça" entirely in French.
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