Group up and take on weekly challenges!
The new Weekly Challenges feature arrives in Pokémon GO starting on Sunday, October 12, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. PDT! Join up to three fellow Trainers from anywhere in the world each week to complete a challenge, earn rewards, and increase your Friendship level with your group.
Discover the New Social Tab
Your Trainer profile now features a new Social tab, where you can access the new Weekly Challenges feature alongside Party Play! From here, Trainers will be able to create a group, join a group, or review a group’s progress for the current weekly challenge.
Important Details:
- Trainers can only be part of one weekly challenge group at a time
- Trainers can only complete one weekly challenge per week
- A new weekly challenge will be posted globally every Sunday at 5:00 p.m. PDT
- Each weekly challenge will end the following Sunday at 5:00 p.m. PDT
Create a Group
Invite up to three friends from anywhere in the world to form a group to take on the weekly challenge. Any Trainer in a group can invite friends to join, but each group is limited to four Trainers.
Join a Friend’s Group
Trainers will be notified when they receive an invite to join a weekly challenge group, and they’ll have 24 hours to accept the invite before it expires.
Check Weekly Challenge Progress
Once in a group, Trainers can go to the Social tab to review the group’s daily and overall progress, as well as the time remaining for that week’s challenge.
Success!
When your group completes a weekly challenge within the allotted time, celebrate with the following rewards!
Even if your group is unable to complete the weekly challenge, the group will still receive Stardust for their efforts.
- Extra Friendship level progress
- 20,000 XP
- 6,000 Stardust
Make New Friends
Trainers will have the opportunity to become Friends with anyone in their group they’re not already friends with. If the weekly challenge is completed successfully, the extra Friendship level progress from completing the challenge will be applied to this new Friend.
Coming Soon
By the end of year, The Pokémon GO Team plans to offer matchmaking for weekly challenges. This will enable Trainers to form groups with other Trainers in the community that they may not be friends with yet.
