Eurovision Song Contest 1980

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The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on April 19, 1980 in The Hague. The presenter was Marlous Fluitsma.

Israel, winner in 1979, declined to host the show for the second time in a row, as the IBA could not fund another international production, and the Israeli government turned down a request to extend the IBA budget. Moreover, the date that was eventually set for the 1980 contest by the European Broadcasting Union coincided with Israel's Day of Remembrance for their casualties of war, so Israel decided not to participate at all. After Spain, the 2nd place winner of 1979, and reportedly the UK, refused to host, the Netherlands finally agreed to put on the show providing they were allowed to scale back the production.

Morocco entered the Eurovision family for the first (and so far only) time.

Johnny Logan was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, What's Another Year.

1 Results
2 First appearances
3 Voting structure
4 Score sheet

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Results

Country	Artist(s)	Song	Place	Points
Austria	Blue Danube	Du bist Musik	8	64
Belgium	Telex	Eurovision	17	14
Denmark	Bamses Venner	Tænker altid på dig	14	25
Finland	Vesa-Matti Loiri	Huilumies	19	6
France	Profil	Hi, Hi, M'sieurs Dames	11	45
Germany	Katja Ebstein	Theater	2	128
Greece	Anna Vissi	Autostop	13	30
Ireland	Johnny Logan	What's Another Year	1	143
Italy	Alan Sorrenti	Non So Che Darei	6	87
Luxembourg	Sophie and Magaly	Le Papa Pingouin	9	56
Morocco	Samira Bensaïd	Bitakat Hob	18	7
Netherlands	Maggie McNeal	Amsterdam	5	93
Norway	Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta	Samiid ædnan	16	15
Portugal	José Cid	Um Grande, Grande Amor	7	71
Spain	Trigio Limpio	Quedate Esta Noche	12	38
Sweden	Tomas Ledin	Just nu	10	47
Switzerland	Paola	Cinema	4	104
Turkey	Ajda Pekkan	Petr'oil	15	23
United Kingdom	Prima Donna	Love Enough For Two	3	106
Venue: Congresgebouw - The Hague, Netherlands
The table is ordered by the countries names.

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First appearances

Morocco

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Voting structure

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs. However this year for the first time, countries were required to cast their votes in ascending order, 1,2,3 etc. This change made for the added excitement of waiting for each country to award their highest 12 points at the end of each voting round.

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Score sheet

		Juries
		Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCAustriaJ.png	Image:ESCTurkeyJ.png	Image:ESCGreeceJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCLuxembourgJ.png	Image:ESCMoroccoJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCItalyJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCDenmarkJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCSwedenJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCSwitzerlandJ.png	Image:ESCFinlandJ.png	Image:ESCNorwayJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCGermanyJ.png	Image:ESCUnitedKingdomJ.png	Image:ESCPortugalJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCNetherlandsJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCFranceJ.png	Image:ESCIrelandJ.png	Image:ESCSpainJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCBelgiumJ.png
Image:ESCConJ.png	Austria		0	1	0	3	4	5	1	4	5	6	4	6	3	3	4	10	4	1
	Turkey	3		0	0	12	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Greece	5	0		1	0	2	2	0	0	0	4	0	3	1	8	0	4	0	0
	Luxembourg	1	1	0		0	0	4	6	0	3	7	0	8	0	0	7	8	3	8
	Morocco	0	0	0	0		7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Italy	2	6	2	0	0		3	10	8	6	2	7	4	12	1	2	2	10	10
	Denmark	0	0	4	0	2	0		0	6	7	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Sweden	0	8	10	10	6	5	0		5	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	Switzerland	6	2	0	5	7	3	8	2		12	10	10	7	6	10	0	12	2	2
	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		5	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	Norway	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0		6	0	0	2	3	0	0	0
	Germany	8	10	0	3	10	12	7	5	7	2	0		10	8	12	10	5	12	7
	United Kingdom	7	5	0	8	8	0	10	12	10	4	0	3		7	7	5	6	8	6
	Portugal	0	4	5	4	0	10	6	8	2	1	8	1	0		5	6	7	0	4
	Netherlands	12	12	6	12	0	0	0	3	3	10	0	8	2	4		12	1	5	3
	France	0	3	7	2	1	0	1	4	1	0	3	0	5	0	4		3	6	5
	Ireland	10	0	12	7	0	1	12	7	12	8	12	12	12	5	6	8		7	12
	Spain	4	7	8	6	5	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0		0
	Belgium	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	0	0	0	0
The table is ordered by appearance.