OGAE Second Chance Contest
Wins Language Years Countries
13 English 1970 , 1978 , 1980 , 1981 , 2003 , 2005 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2013 , 2014 , 2016 , 2017 Ireland , United Kingdom , Sweden , Denmark , Norway , Poland
10 Swedish 1973 , 1987 , 1988 , 1990 , 1991 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 2001 , 2010 Sweden
5 Italian 1971 , 1972 , 1997 , 2015 , 2018 Italy
4 Spanish 2002 , 2004 , 2012 , 2013 Spain , Norway
3 French 1977 , 1984 , 2019 France , Belgium
3 Dutch 1982 , 1986 , 1998 Netherlands
2 German 1979 , 1983 Germany
2 Danish 1985 , 1989 Denmark
2 Norwegian 1992 , 1993 Norway
1 Turkish 1999 Turkey
1 Finnish 2000 Finland
1 Slovene 2006 Slovenia
1 Icelandic 2011 Rest of the World ( Iceland )
Winners -- By language
The OGAE Second Chance Contest is a visual event which was founded in 1987 and is organised by branches of OGAE, the international fan club of the Eurovision Song Contest. Four nations competed in the first contest which took place in 1987. The contest was previously a non-televised event, but evolved over the years by the usage of video tape and nowadays DVD and YouTube. Each summer following the Eurovision Song Contest, each branch can enter one song that failed to win the country's national selection process for the annual Eurovision Song Contest. The members of each club choose amongst the songs that did not win and select one to represent the club in the event. Votes are cast by members of the OGAE clubs and are returned to the OGAE branch organising the particular year's event. Guest juries have been used to cast votes since 1993.