Festival da Canção

Festival da Canção 2023 is the 1st edition of Festival da Canção, a television song contest organised and broadcast by (RTP) to determine Portugal's entry for the. The competition consisted of two semi-finals on 3 June and 10 June 2023 and a final on 17 June 2023, with twenty entries competing in total.

= Format = The format of the competition consisted of three shows: two semi-finals and a final. Each semi-final featured 10 competing entries from which five advanced from each show to complete the 10-song lineup in the final. Results during the semi-finals were determined by the votes from a jury panel appointed by RTP and public televoting; the five qualifiers were based on the 50/50 combination of jury and public voting where both streams of voting assign points from 1–8, 10 and 12 based on ranking. Results during the final were determined by the 50/50 combination of votes from juries and public televoting, which was opened following the second semi-final and closed during the final show. Both the public televote and the juries assign points from 1–8, 10 and 12 based on the ranking developed by both streams of voting. All three shows of the competition took place at RTP's Studio 1 in and were broadcast on  and  as well as on radio via  and online via RTP Play. The shows were also broadcast on RTP Acessibilidades with presentation in Portuguese Sign Language and in Spain online via.

= Competing entries = Twenty-seven composers were selected by RTP through two methods: 18 invited by RTP for the competition and nine selected from 667 submissions received through an open call for songs. Songs could be submitted in any language.

Semi-finals
The two semi-finals took place on 3 June and 10 June 2023. In each semi-final, 10 entries competed and five advanced to the final: based on the 50/50 combination of votes from the televote and a jury panel.