Current Events > Something that feels weird with Eurovision 2024 as a Swede.

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We are hosting ESC 24 since we won this year and we are having the show in Malm Arena which has a maximum capacity of 15 500 people. That is fairly standard size for the arenas countries host Eurovision in. The UK this year held it in an arena with a maximum capacity of 11 000.

But we are having our national final, where we select our Eurovision representative, in the biggest arena in the country: Friends Arena which has a maximum capacity of 65 000.

So our next Eurovision rep will win the honour in Friends Arena but then actually compete in Eurovision in the much smaller Malm Arena <_<