🇦🇹 Eurovision 2026: Wels & Oberwart Want to Host, Klagenfurt & Salzburg Say No

Austria will host the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 after the ESC victory of singer JJ in Basel. Only where? Vienna? Salzburg? Innsbruck? Also the little catfish is planning an application.

The struggle for the 70th Song Contest has begun. Among other things Vienna, Innsbruck, Wels and Oberwart are ready, Graz is examining an application. Klagenfurt and Salzburg have already fallen off. Minister of Culture Babler expects that the event will be financeable.

After the victory of Johannes Pietsch alias JJ, the ESC will take place in Austria next year. Perhaps even in Oberwart: "We are the perfect location", says Mayor Georg RosnerRead the full article on FALTER.at

WELS/LINZ. The Eurovision Song Contest is an economic factor. Wels wants to benefit from it with the new exhibition hall and applies for 2026 with Linz as a partner.

🇦🇹 Eurovision 2026: Wels & Oberwart Want to Host, Klagenfurt & Salzburg Say No

Four more cities in Austria have shared whether they intend to bid to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. Wels and Oberwart have both expressed their hopes to bid for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, but have a limited chance of making it to the shortlist. Wels wishes to bid with a new exhibition hall which replaces the existing Messe Wels. The city is located near Linz and is the eighth largest in Austria. Oberwart also wishes to bring the …