Ukraine’s capital to host Eurovision 2017

The European Broadcasting Union and the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) has revealed that the city chosen to host the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in 2017 will be Kiev.

The city fought off strong competition from Odesa and Dnipro to host the Eurovision Song Contest following Jamala’s win in Sweden this year with her song 1944, Eurovision.tv reports.

The decision was made after six candidate cities originally presented their bids to the Organising Committee of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, televised live in Ukraine. At that stage Kharkov, Kherson and Lvov stood down, allowing Kiev, Dnipro and Odesa to continue onto the next stage. The committee and representatives from the EBU then reviewed and inspected the finale city hopefuls and have now declared Kyiv will stage the contest in 2017.