Bandidos do Cante have won Festival da Can\u00e7\u00e3o 2026 with the song \u201cRosa\u201d (Rose) and will represent Portugal at Eurovision 2026.<\/p>\n
Following two semi-finals, the final of Festival da Can\u00e7\u00e3o 2026 took place in the Valentim da Carvalho Studios in Lisbon. The show was hosted by Filomena Cautela and Vasco Palmeirim. Alongside the 10 competing performances, there were also guest performances from Throes+The Shine, Catarina Salinas, Selma Uamusse, Samuel Uria, and last year\u2019s winners Napa.<\/p>\n
The results were decided by seven regional juries (50%) and public voting (50%). The results were as follows:<\/p>\n
Running orderArtistSongJury pointsTelevote pointsResult1Bandidos do Cante\u201cRosa\u201d101222 points \u2013 1st place2Jo\u00e3o Ribeiro\u201cCan\u00e7\u00e3o do querer\u201d12214 points \u2013 4th place3Andr\u00e9 Amaro\u201cD\u00e1-me a tua m\u00e3o\u201d178 points \u2013 7th place4Gon\u00e7alo Gomes\u201cDoce ilus\u00e3o\u201d437 points \u2013 9th place5Marquise\u201cChuva\u201d358 points \u2013 8th place6Evaya\u201cSprint\u201d213 points \u2013 10th place7Sandrino\u201cDisposto a tudo\u201d7613 points \u2013 5th place8Nunca Mates o Mandarim\u201cFumo\u201d8816 points \u2013 3rd place9Silvana Peres\u201cN\u00e3o tem fim\u201d549 points \u2013 6th place10Dinis Mota\u201cJurei\u201d61016 points \u2013 2nd place<\/p>\n
Bandidos do Cante will perform during the first half of the first semi-final on May 12.<\/p>\n
Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n
Portugal debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964, represented by Ant\u00f3nio Calv\u00e1rio. The country finished last, scoring nul points. Before 2017, Portugal\u2019s best result was 6th place, which came in 1996 when L\u00facia Moniz performed \u201cO meu cora\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o tem cor\u201d in Oslo. In 2017, Salvador Sobral took home the crystal microphone with his song \u201cAmar pelos dois\u201d, ending a 53-year wait for a Portuguese win. The 2018 contest was held in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bandidos do Cante have won Festival da Can\u00e7\u00e3o 2026 with the song \u201cRosa\u201d (Rose) and will represent Portugal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[166412,96,128857,33958,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bandidos-do-cante","tag-entertainment","tag-festival-da-cancao-2026","tag-headline","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}