It's Sanja Ilic & Balkanika for Serbia!

Last night saw the return of Beovizija for Serbia - it was the first time the national final had been used since Marko Kon & Milan Nikolic represented Serbia in 2009, with the song 'Cipela'.

17 acts took part in the national final including a former Eurovision backing singer and a former Eurovision participant, but it was Sanja Ilic & Balkanika who took the victory with their song, "Nova deca" (New children). Sanja and Balkanika not only won the whole national final but also won both the jury and televote, scoring a perfect 24 points. Saska Janks finished second with 20 points and Dusan Svilar finished third with 15 points. Rambo Amadeus (Montenegro 2012) finished ninth with just 4 points.

Beovizija's interval act last night was also definitely something to talk about with eleven former Eurovision acts returning to perform their Eurovision entries - Jelena Tomasevic (Serbia 2008), Marko Kon & Milan Nikolic (Serbia 2009), Regina (Bosnia & Herzegovina 2009), Milan Stankovic (Serbia 2010), Moje 3 (Serbia 2013), Sergej Cetkovic (Montenegro 2014), Bojana Stamenov (Serbia 2015), Knez (Montenegro 2015), Sanja Vucic ZAA (Serbia 2016), Jacques Houdek (Croatia 2017) and Tijana Bogicevic (Serbia 2017) all appeared in the interval.

Sanja Ilic, who was born in Belgrade in 1951, has already been involved in the Eurovision, as he composed the Yugoslavian entry in 1982, 'Halo, Halo', performed by Aska. The song finished in 14th place with 21 points - 140 points behind the German winner, Nicole. Sanja then set up Balkanika in 1998, and they performed their first concert in 2000. They will become the first group to represent Serbia since Moje 3 in 2013.

You can listen to Sanja & Balkanika's entry below.

Serbia made their debut appearance in 2007, when they became the first country, since the inaugural contest in 1956 to win on their debut. Since then, Serbia has only failed to qualify for the final three times in 2009, 2013 and 2017. Before Serbia became an independent state, they participated as part of Yugoslavia between 1961 and 1992 and as part of Serbia & Montenegro in 2004 and 2005. You can watch Serbia's winning entry from 2007 below: