Croatia 2025: Your 'Dora' final preview

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02 March, 2025

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Croatia's Baby Lasagna walking the Flag Parade at the Grand Final in Malmö Arena

Your guide to the big final of Croatia's Eurovision pre-selection 'Dora', ahead of the nation choosing its song for Basel 2025.

How To Watch

The final of Croatia's 'Dora' 2025 is happening on Sunday 2 March at 20:15 CET. If you're in Croatia, you'll be able to watch via national broadcaster HRT. And if you're outside of Croatia, you can follow the live stream over on our official YouTube channel .

About Dora

Croatia's long-running song competition Dora is back for its 2025 edition. This year, the winner has got some big Baby Lasagna-sized shoes to fill, after Dora 2024 's champion song Rim Tim Tagi Dim gave Croatia its best ever result at the Eurovision Song Contest; finishing in the runner-up position in Malmö.

Baby Lasagna from Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 official portrait studio

24 songs were selected for Dora 2025 , but we're already down to our 16 finalists.

On Thursday and Friday, 27 and 28 February, two semi-finals of Dora played out with 12 songs taking part in each. A public vote from viewers on both nights decided which 8 entries would advance to Sunday night's Dora final. And so we have our 16-song Croatian culmination to look forward to now!

Anyone who tuned in to those two semi-finals will already be familiar with our hosts for Sunday night. Duško Čurlić and Barbara Kolar will be on presenting duties once more, with Zlata Mück Sušec bringing us all the Dora details from the green room.

The show will be coming to us live from the Marino Cvetković Sports Hall in the picturesque coastal town of Opatija.

The winner of Dora will be decided by a vote that comes from three sources.

Viewers watching at home in Croatia will contribute to a public vote that accounts for 50% of the final result. Another 25% will come from a Croatian jury, while the remaining 25% will be made up of points given by 4 international juries.