Serbia has been represented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since 2006. The Serbian participating broadcaster in the contest is Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). The broadcaster used the national selection format titled () for its participation at the contests between and .
In 2007, the country was represented by Nevena Boà ¾oviÃÂ, who went on to represent Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as part of the girl group Moje 3. Serbia's best result came in and when it finished in third place at both contests. There have only been four absences from the contest, between and , and once again in 2023. Serbia returned to the competition in represented by Emilija ÃÂonin, who was selected internally by the national broadcaster RTS, a selection mechanism that it continued to use in 2015 when it internally selected the song "Lenina pesma" (), performed by Lena StamenkoviÃÂ.
It is one of three countries, along with and , to have participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest before debuting in the adult one.
Prior to the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006 which culminated into the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro, both nations use to compete at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and Eurovision Song Contest as Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia were the first of the two nations to compete at a Junior Contest, making its debut at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006. While it was at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 when would make its debut as an independent nation. Neustraà ¡ivi uÃÂitelji stranih jezika went on to being Serbia's first participant in 2006 as an independent nation with the song "UÃÂimo strane jezike" ().
Serbia continued to participate at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, in which it had selected Nevena Boà ¾oviàto represent Serbia with the song "Pià ¡i mi" (). Boà ¾oviàalso became the first Junior Eurovision participant to take part in the senior Eurovision Song Contest as part of the group Moje 3, performing the song "Ljubav je svuda" (), which achieved forty-six points and failing to qualify to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 after finishing in 11th place. However, she managed to qualify in the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Kruna" () and finished in 18th place with 89 points.
The nation continued to participate at every Junior Contest until , before announcing on 5 June 2011 that Serbia would not participate in the contest. On 25 July 2014, Serbia announced its return to the contest, after a three-year absence. Serbia selected its 2014 entry through an internal selection for the first time in its history. On 1 October 2014 it was revealed that Emilija ÃÂonin would represent Serbia in the contest with the song "Svet u mojim oÃÂima".
On 4 May 2015, it was announced on a Eurovision news website that Serbia's national broadcaster, RTS, had not started any planning in regards to their participation at the contest, and that such decision would be taken after the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. On 20 August 2015, Serbia confirmed its participation. RTS announced on 21 September 2015, that they had internally selected Lena StamenkoviÃÂ with the song "Lenina pesma" () to represent them at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015, which took place at the Arena Armeec, in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, on 21 November 2015. On 14 September 2016, Serbia confirmed its participation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Valletta, Malta, with the country going on to participate in all subsequent editions until 2022.
On 1 August 2023, RTS editor-in-chief Olivera KovaÃÂeviÃÂ announced that Serbia will withdraw from the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Nice, France for financial reasons. Furthermore, Serbia announced its non-participation in the 2024 contest as well.
The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2006.