Sweden was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Hold Me Closer", written by Isa Molin, David Zandén, and Cornelia Jakobsdotter, and performed by Jakobsdotter herself under her stage name Cornelia Jakobs. The Swedish participating broadcaster, (SVT), organised in order to select its entry for the contest.
Prior to the 2022 contest, (SR) until 1979, and (SVT) since 1980, had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden sixty times since SR's first entry in . Sweden had won the contest on six occasions: in with the song "Waterloo" performed by ABBA, in with the song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" performed by Herreys, in with the song "" performed by Carola, in with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven" performed by Charlotte Nilsson, in with the song "Euphoria" performed by Loreen, and in with the song "Heroes" performed by MÃÂ¥ns Zelmerlöw. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the , Sweden's entries, to this point, have featured in every final, except for . This includes its entry, "Voices", performed by Tusse, which ended 14th with 109 points in the final.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, SVT organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. Since 1959, SR first and SVT later have organised the annual competition in order to select their entries for the contest.
The 2022 edition of featured four heats, a semi-finals show (replacing the previously-held Second Chance round) and a final, and saw 28 acts compete. It was held between 5 February and 12 March 2022 in Stockholm, with the first three heats held at the Avicii Arena, and the remaining heat, the semi-finals and the final at the Friends Arena.
The final took place on 12 March 2022.
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 25 January 2022, an allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Sweden was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 12 May 2022, and scheduled to perform in the second half of the show.
Once all the competing songs for the 2022 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Sweden was set to perform in position 17, following the entry from and before the entry from the .
The following members comprised the Swedish jury: