Lied van Liedjes 30

This was the thirtieth Lied van Liedjes to be held. Semi-Finals would occur on the Tuesday 11th and Thursday 13th February 2003. The grand final happening on Saturday 15th February 2003.

=Organization= Lucia Danielsen returned as executive producer, alongside the previous director Eila Kekkonen. Polish coordinator Kacper Walas was appointed. Warsaw was chosen to host as the biggest polish city despite bids from Krakow, Lublin and Lodz. It would take place in music venue Progresja.

=Contest= The contest would continue with previous systems. By now, it had been tradition for the host city team to choose the format they continued with. The polish delegation chose the edition 28 format which lowered to the total amount of shows required to just two semi finals (11th and 13th February) and a grand final (15th February) as opposed to an extra second chance round or any more semi finals. The Pot draw would take place on Saturday 2nd February 2003.

As the contest was the 30th edition, Lucia Danielsen wanted to do something special. She lowered the participation fee greatly to allow for more countries to rejoin the contest. This angered the Polish delegation however who had to spend more expenses than usual for a host city. Poland vowed to withdraw from the following edition to protest this move and recoup costs.

The automatic qualifiers remained as the top 5 from the previous edition:, , , , and. Because of the huge increase in participating countries, the amount qualifying from each semi final was increased to 11 from 10. This allowed for 27 countries in the grand final which really stretched the available time. The voting section was heavily condensed.

=Semi Finals=

Semi Final 2
=Finals=

Grand Final
=Other Countries=

Northern Europe

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Western Europe

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Eastern Europe

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 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.

Southern Europe

 * - no official statement made.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.

Americas

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Asia

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 * - no official statement made. they have yet to debut.
 * - no official statement made. they have yet to debut.
 * - no official statement made. they have yet to debut.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.

Africa

 * - no official statement made.
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 * - no official statement made. they have yet to debut.

Oceania

 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.
 * - announced they would not take part in the edition due to financial reasons.