section_path: Contest overview/Final
section_name: Final
paragraph_text: Final
  
  The final took place on 17 May 2025 at 21:00 CEST and featured 26 competing countries. All 37 participating countries with jury and televote, as well as non-participating countries under an aggregated "Rest of the World" online vote, voted in the final. The running order (R/O) of the host nation was determined by a random draw on 17 March during the annual meeting of heads of the participating delegations. The running order for the remaining finalists was determined by the contest producers following the second semi-final.
  
  Austria won the contest with the song " Wasted Love ", performed by JJ and written by him along with Teodora Špirić and Thomas Thurner. Austria won with 436 points, also winning the jury vote. It was the country's third win in the contest, following prior victories in 1966 and 2014. Israel came second with 357 points and won the televote, with Estonia, Sweden, Italy, Greece, France, Albania, Ukraine, and Switzerland completing the top ten. Luxembourg, Denmark, Spain, Iceland, and San Marino occupied the bottom five positions.
  
  The final was opened by Nemo performing their winning song in 2024, " The Code ", followed by the flag parade, introducing all twenty-six finalists, backed by the Top Secret Drum Corps. In a break between the competing songs, co-presenter Sandra Studer performed a snippet of her entry for Switzerland in 1991, " Canzone per te ", while co-presenter Michelle Hunziker performed a snippet of the Italian entry in 1958, " Nel blu, dipinto di blu ". The interval acts included four former Swiss participants performing their competing songs: Peter, Sue and Marc with their 1981 entry " Io senza te ", Paola with her 1980 entry " Cinéma ", Luca Hänni with his 2019 entry " She Got Me ", and Gjon's Tears with his 2021 entry " Tout l'univers "; Baby Lasagna, who represented Croatia in 2024, and Käärijä, who represented Finland in 2023, performing a mashup of their respective competing songs " Rim Tim Tagi Dim " and " Cha Cha Cha " followed by their new collaborative single " #Eurodab "; and Nemo performing their new single "Unexplainable".