KESC Junior of 1957

This was the third contest and was managed by Kross Company, RECORDZA and EmbeX Studios. The contest was again managed by British executive producer George Krezen. The contest was to take place 6 months after the adult contest. Due to their contest taking place in June 1957, the kid's contest would take place in December.

The 1957 contest introduced the elimination round to the junior contest.

Hosting
Due to Belgium's win in the 1956 contest, they gained the right to host the 1957 contest which they agreed to do. Kross Company suggested that no one country should host more than once within one period of five years. Antwerp was chosen to host because they did not want to waste their capital for a smaller event just in case they won the Kross European Song Contest.

The contest consisted of two shows. The first was the elimination round aired on 20:00 local time until 21:30 local time on 4th December 1957. The final was aired at 20:00 local time until 21:45 local time on 7th December 1957.

Elimination Round
The automatic qualifiers are the top 5 of the previous contest, winner of the previous adult contest and host country: The Elimination Round had 18 participating countries and only 10 would qualify. The Elimination Round's non qualifying results would be released two years after the contest rather than five years after for the finalists.
 * Belgium.png Belgium (host)
 * AlbaniaOld.png Albania (winner of adults)
 * France.png France
 * Netherlands.png Netherlands
 * Switzerland.png Switzerland
 * Denmark.png Denmark