Friesland in EuroRegion Song Contest

Friesland is a region in Europe. Because of that, they can participate in EuroRegion Song Contest. This province of The Netherlands debuted in the first edition.

History
Friesland was announced as first participating region for the first edition. When the EBU announced the start of this contest it was clear that Friesland got the honour to host the first edition. They selected Leeuwarden as host city. The edition took place at "De Harmonie", a venue with a capacity of 1.000 people. Aafke Zuidersma finished at the ninth place. In the second edition, they won the show, because of the song "Fryslân performed by Tim Douwsma. Gurbe Douwstra finished at the ninth place in the third edition, hosted in Barcelona.

Friesland hosted the contest again in the fourth edition, in Sneek. However their expectations they finished at the eleventh place. In the next edition, hosted in Kazan, they finished at the 13th place out of 14 participating regions. Friesland finished again at the 13th place in the sixth edition. After some edition finishing out of the top ten, Friesland reached the 9th place in the seventh edition. In the 8th edition, Friesland reached their highest result since their victory in the second edition with finishing at the fourth place. They received five times the highest score of 12 points.