The Finnish participating broadcaster, Yleisradio (Yle), organised the national final Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Yle had been selecting its entries for the contest through national final competitions that had varied in format over the years.
Yle confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2025 contest on 3 June 2024, announcing that its entry would again be selected through Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu.
The competition consisted of a final on 8 February 2025, held at Nokia Arena in Tampere and hosted by Sanni and Jasmin Beloued [fi].
[5] At least one of the writers and the lead singer(s) had to hold Finnish citizenship or live in Finland permanently in order for the entry to qualify to compete.
"Ich komme" performed by Erika Vikman was selected as the winner by a combination of public votes (75%) and seven international jury groups from Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, San Marino, Spain, and Switzerland (25%).