Best EUROVISION winners

2021 – Måneskin – Italy wins 65% of its duels and tops the EUROVISION ranking ahead of 2009 – Alexander Rybak – Norway.

The Italian rock band edges out the Norwegian violinist by 16 ELO points, the sharpest gap at the top of the ranking. 2021 – Måneskin – Italy stands at 1312 ELO after 115 duels, while 2009 – Alexander Rybak – Norway follows with 1296 ELO. The podium closes with 2013 – Emmelie de Forest – Denmark at 1292 ELO, just 4 points behind second place. The tight clustering continues through the top 5, with 2023 – Loreen – Sweden and 2019 – Duncan Laurence – Netherlands separated by only 5 ELO points. At the opposite end, 2001 – Tanel Padar & Dave Benton – Estonia sits at 1021 ELO with a 36% win rate, reflecting a clear divide between the community's favorites and the less celebrated victors. The bottom three winners all hover around the same win rate, suggesting consistent agreement on which victories failed to resonate.

This ranking draws from 1485 duels cast by 18 players across 25 contenders, updated on 12 October 2026. The vote captures preferences spanning multiple decades of Eurovision history, from earlier entries to recent champions. Whether you favor the theatrical energy of recent years or the melodic charm of past decades, head to the platform and cast your own duels to shift the standings.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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