Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Croatia originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The Croatian broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija used the national selection Dora 2020 to decide their representative. However, due to 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the contest was cancelled.
Background
Prior to the 2020 Contest, Croatia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty-five times since its first entry in. Croatia's highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been fourth place, which the nation achieved on two occasions: in 1996 with the song "Sveta ljubav" performed by Maja Blagdan and in 1999 "Marija Magdalena" performed by Doris Dragović. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, Croatia had featured in seven finals. In 2019, Croatia failed to qualify to the final, placing 14th in the second semi-final with the song "The Dream" performed by Roko.Before Eurovision
''Dora 2020''
Dora 2020 was the twenty-first edition of the Croatian national selection Dora, which selected Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The competition consisted of up to 16 entries competing in one final.Format
The combination of points from a viewer vote and ten regional jury groups determined the winner. According to the competition rules, in the event of a tie for the first place, the winner was the entrant ranked highest by the public televote.Competing entries
Artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster between 5 November and 15 December 2019. An expert committee selected sixteen artists and songs for the competition from the received submissions. The list of competing artists and songs were released on 23 December 2019. Shortly after the list was released, Goran Karan withdrew from the competition. As a result of this, Elis Lovrić and her song "Jušto" participated in the national selection instead.| Artist | Song | Composer |
| Aklea Neon | "Zovi ju mama" | Dorotea Zovko, Pavle Kladarin |
| Alen Vitasović & Božidarka Matija Čerina | "Da se ne zatare" | Robert Pilepić |
| Bojan Jambrošić | "Više od riječi" | Antonija Šola |
| Colonia | "Zidina" | Boris Đurđević, Valerija Đurđević |
| Damir Kedžo | "Divlji vjetre" | Ante Pecotić |
| Đana | "One" | Rando Stipišić |
| Edi Abazi | "Coming Home" | Srđan Sekulović Skansi |
| Elis Lovrić | "Jušto" | Elis Lovrić |
| Indira Levak | "You Will Never Break My Heart" | Branimir Mihaljević, Ambrogio Crotti, Doron Medalie |
| Jure Brkljača | "Hajde nazovi me!" | Miroslav Rus |
| Lorena Bućan | "Drowning" | Ivan Huljić |
| Lorenzo, Dino Purić & Reper iz sobe | "Vrati se iz Irske" | Ivan Grgić, Marko Kantolić |
| Marin Jurić Čivro | "Naivno" | Boris Kolarić, Maja Kolarić, Marko Matijević Sekul |
| Mia Negovetić | "When It Comes to You" | Linnea Deb, Anderz Wrethov, Denniz Jamm, Mia Negovetić |
| Nikola Marjanović | "Let's Forgive" | Adi Karaselimović |
| Zdenka Kovačiček | "Love, Love, Love" | Branimir Mihaljević, Mario Mihaljević |