Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Croatia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 28 times since making its debut at the 1993 contest. Their entry has since 1993, excluding from 2012 to 2018, been selected at the Dora pop festival, an event organised by the national public broadcaster (HRT). Croatia's best result in the contest is a fourth-place finish in and . Croatia achieved six top ten results in seven years, with Magazin and Lidija sixth (), Maja Blagdan fourth (1996), former Magazin member Danijela Martinović fifth (1998), Doris Dragović (who was 11th for Yugoslavia in ) fourth (), Goran Karan ninth (2000), and Vanna tenth (2001). Since then, Croatia has failed to reach the top ten. Croatia failed to reach the final for four years in succession (–), before choosing to not participate in and . Croatia returned and reached the final in both and , before again failing to reach the final for four consecutive contests (–). This non-qualification streak was broken in , when Croatia advanced to the final. In total, Croatia has failed to reach the final in 9 of the last 14 contests it has entered. History Ten representatives of Yugoslavia came from Croatia in , , , , , , , , and . Apart from being the most successful Yugoslav republic in the contest, it gave the socialist republic its only win, "Rock Me", sung by Riva in 1989 in Lausanne. The was held in Zagreb as a result.