page_title: Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest
section_title: Hostings
hierarchical_section_title: Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest / Hostings
caption_attribution_description: Host Corry Brokken at a rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 1976.
context_page_description: The Netherlands has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 60 times since making its debut as one of the seven countries at the first contest in 1956. The country has missed only four contests, twice because the dates coincided with Remembrance of the Dead and twice because of being relegated due to poor results the previous year. The Netherlands hosted the contest in Hilversum, Amsterdam, twice in The Hague, and would've hosted the contest in Rotterdam in 2020, but the edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rotterdam will remain as the host city of the 2021 contest.
  The Netherlands has won the contest five times, with Corry Brokken, Teddy Scholten, Lenny Kuhr in a four-way tie, Teach-In and Duncan Laurence. The country's other top five results are Sandra & Andres fourth, Mouth & MacNeal third, Maggie MacNeal fifth, Marcha fifth, Edsilia Rombley fourth, and second with The Common Linnets. The Netherlands finished last in 1958, 1962, 1963, 1968, and in the semifinal in 2011.
caption: Corry Brokken rehearsing for the Eurovision Song Contest 1976
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