JESC: 31st Edition

JESC: 31st Edition is the 31st edition of the kids contest, JESC. It will be held on Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 24 countries will take part. The official date of the contest is February 28, 2022. Presenters of the show will be Kylie Minogue and Duncan Laurence. ABC and AVROTROS co-orporated for it.

Debuting countries
None

Returning countries

 * France
 * Italy
 * United Kingdom

Withdrawing countries

 * Bulgaria
 * Denmark
 * Latvia

Participants

 * Albania (RTSH)
 * Armenia (ARMTV)
 * Australia (ABC)
 * Azerbaijan (ITV)
 * Cyprus (CyBC)
 * Czech Republic (CT)
 * France (France 2)
 * Georgia (GPB)
 * Germany (NDR)
 * Greece (ERT)
 * Ireland (RTE)
 * Italy (RAI)
 * Malta (TVM)
 * Norway (NRK)
 * The Netherlands (AVROTROS)
 * Poland (TVP)
 * Portugal (RTP)
 * Russia (RTR)
 * San Marino (SMRTV)
 * Slovenia (RTVSLO)
 * Spain (RTVE)
 * Sweden (SVT)
 * Ukraine (NTU)
 * United Kingdom (BBC)

Results

 * 1) Greece
 * 2) Georgia
 * 3) Australia
 * 4) France
 * 5) Portugal
 * 6) Armenia
 * 7) Azerbaijan
 * 8) Russia
 * 9) Slovenia
 * 10) Italy
 * 11) The Netherlands
 * 12) Ukraine
 * 13) Malta
 * 14) Poland
 * 15) Ireland
 * 16) Cyprus
 * 17) Spain
 * 18) United Kingdom
 * 19) Albania
 * 20) Sweden
 * 21) Czech Republic
 * 22) Germany
 * 23) Norway
 * 24) San Marino

Trivia

 * Due to Australia being an associate member, they could not host on home soil. EBU started a bidding phase competition, where the host country would be decided in two phases. First phase would pick the three best options, and second phase the host. In the first phase, 15 countries applied. The top three were ERT (Greece), AVROTROS (The Netherlands) and YLE (Finland). In the end, the Netherlands were chosen while Finland did not return.