The HSBC BWF World Tour is the highest-level annual circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). It consists of around 30 tournaments (Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, Super 100) held across different continents, and it always culminates in December at the World Tour Finals, where the top eight players or pairs in each discipline from the World Tour ranking qualify to compete for prize money of two million dollars.

The hosting rights for World Tour tournaments are allocated for four years at a time. Finland applied for and was awarded the right to host a Super 500-level event for 2023–26. The aim is to make the tournament a permanent part of the World Tour calendar, meaning that the world’s best badminton will continue to be played in Finland beyond 2026.

This is the third time that the current highest-level international badminton tour, the World Tour, is being played in Finland. The earlier Finnish Open and Finnish International belonged to the lower-tier European circuit. Finland is also the only new European host country on the 2023–26 tour. Only the long-established All England, Denmark Open, and French Open are of a higher tier.

Badminton is one of the world’s biggest sports, so hosting an event of this caliber in Finland is a significant occasion internationally. The Finnish tournament distributes over 400,000 USD in prize money, which is the largest sum of any sporting event in Finland. Combined with the event’s truly unique global TV reach of more than half a billion households, it can be said that this is the most international sporting event in Finland’s history.

The Finnish tournament is named after its main partners: CLASH OF CLANS Arctic Open 2025 powered by YONEX. The global main partner of the World Tour is HSBC, one of the world’s largest financial services companies.

The 2025 Arctic Open will take place on October 7–12, 2025, at Energia Areena in Vantaa, which will once again be transformed into a world-class stage with dedicated court lighting. All five disciplines will be contested (men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles), with around 300 players participating. National TV broadcasts are provided by YLE. Matches will be streamed live on YLE Areena starting Thursday, October 9, with semifinals and finals broadcast as highlights on TV2 on Saturday and Sunday.