Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Azerbaijan
Member station	İctimai Television (İTV)
National selection events	National Final Junior ; 2012 ; Internal Selection 2013 ; 2018 ;
Participation summary
Appearances	3
First appearance	2012
Last appearance	2018
Best result	7th: 2013
External links
	Azerbaijan's page at Eurovision.tv
	For the most recent participation see; Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Azerbaijan debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2012.[1] In 2008, İTV announced that Azerbaijan would take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Limassol, but then withdrew before the contest, because there were too few candidates for the national selection and consequently canceled its debut.

After taking part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013, Azerbaijan withdrew from the contest because of unspecified reasons and on 25 July 2018, it was announced that Azerbaijan will return to the contest in 2018. Their worst result to date has been achieved by Fidan Huseynova with her song "I Wanna Be Like You" in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018. İTV announced on 1 July 2019 that they will not take part in the 2019 contest in Gliwice, Poland.[2]

Participation

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Place	Points
2012	Suada Alakbarova and Omar Sultanov	"Girls and Boys (Dünya Sənindir)"	Azerbaijani, English	11	49
2013	Rustam Karimov	"Me and My Guitar"	Azerbaijani, English	7	66
2018	Fidan Huseynova	"I Wanna Be Like You"	Azerbaijani, English	16	47

Photo gallery

Rustam Karimov in Kiev (2013)

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.[3] The Azerbaijani broadcaster, İTV, send their own commentary team to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Azerbaijani language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Azerbaijan. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2012.

Year	Commentator	Spokesperson	Ref.
2007	Unknown	Did not participate
2008
2009
2010–2011	No broadcast
2012	Konul Arifkizi	Leila Hajili
2013	Konul Arifkizi	Lyaman Mirzalieva
2014–2017	No broadcast	Did not participate
2018	Shafiga Efendiyeva	Valeh Huseynbeyli	[4]
2019–2020	No broadcast	Did not participate

Notes

References

"Junior 2012: 12 countries to take part". European Broadcasting Union. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
"Azerbaijan: Withdraws From Junior Eurovision 2019". Eurovoix. 1 July 2019.
Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Bulgaria 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
"Azerbaijan: Junior Eurovision 2018 Commentator & Spokesperson Revealed". Eurovoix. Retrieved 24 November 2018.

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[1] "Junior 2012: 12 countries to take part". European Broadcasting Union. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.

[2] "Azerbaijan: Withdraws From Junior Eurovision 2019". Eurovoix. 1 July 2019.

[3] Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Bulgaria 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.

[4] "Azerbaijan: Junior Eurovision 2018 Commentator & Spokesperson Revealed". Eurovoix. Retrieved 24 November 2018.