Previous winners
- ↑ This tournament, originally to be played from 10 to 13 August, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian Open Championship is an annual international badminton championships held in Bulgaria since 1985, by then known as Bulgarian International. It was halted between 1996 and 1998, and in 2000. The tournament belongs to the Badminton Europe elite circuit and become the highest level badminton tournament in Bulgaria. It changed to its current name in 2017, to differentiate it from the second badminton tournament in the country which is now known as Bulgarian International.
| Top Nations | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total | ||
| 1 |  Bulgaria | 0 | 11 | 1.5 | 12.5 | 3.5 | 28.5 | ||
| 2 |  Russia | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | ||
| 3 |  Denmark | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1.5 | 0 | 13.5 | ||
| 4 |  China | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||
| 5 |  Germany | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | ||
 Poland | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |||
| 7 |  England | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1.5 | 8.5 | ||
| 8 |  Ukraine | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | ||
| 9 |  East Germany | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | ||
| 10 |  Austria | 4 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 | ||
| 11 |  France | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
 Soviet Union | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |||
 Turkey | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |||
| 14 |  Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
 Spain | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||
| 16 |  Belarus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 17 |  Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
 Scotland | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 1.5 | 2 | |||
| 19 |  Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
 Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
 CIS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
 Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
 Finland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
 Iceland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
 India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
 Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
 Thailand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
 United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
 Wales | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 30 |  Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | ||
 Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |||
| Total | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 155 | |||
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