When Does The Current Rocket League Season End (And when You get Your Rewards)

Historically, most Rocket League seasons have lasted approximately 3-4 months, with a few seasons being the exception to this rule. Every Rocket League season, Psyonix gives ranking rewards and brings a plethora of new content, improved optionalities, extra cosmetics and more. In this article, we’re going to look at how long seasons last and what a season end entails.

Rocket League Season Length

Most seasons in Rocket League are 3-4 months long, but some were much longer. Rocket League Season 3 lasted for 9 months, with season 14 being 6 months. It might be a bit confusing, but season 14 was actually played before the current season 7. This is due to the fact Rocket League used to require players to pay to play, but has recently become free to play.

Free To Play Seasons:

SEASON	RELEASE DATE	END DATE	DURATION
1	Sep 23, 2020	Dec 9, 2020	2 and a half months
2	Dec 9, 2020	Apr 7, 2021	4 months
3	Apr 7, 2021	Aug 11, 2021	4 months
4	Aug 11, 2021	Nov 17, 2021	3 months
5	Nov 17, 2021	Mar 9, 2023	3 months
6	Mar 9, 2023	Jun 15, 2023	3 months
7	Jun 15, 2023	Sep 7, 2023	3 months

Pay To Play Seasons:

SEASON	RELEASE DATE	END DATE	DURATION
1	Sep 8, 2015	Feb 11, 2016	5 months
2	Feb 11, 2016	Jun 20, 2016	4 months
3	Jun 20, 2016	Mar 22, 2017	9 months
4	Mar 22, 2017	Jul 5, 2017	3 and a half months
5	Jul 5, 2017	Sep 28, 2017	3 months
6	Sep 29, 2017	Feb 7, 2018	4 and a half months
7	Feb 7, 2018	May 29, 2018	3 and a half months
8	May 29, 2018	Sep 24, 2018	4 months
9	Sep 24, 2018	Feb 18, 2019	5 months
10	Feb 19, 2019	May 13, 2019	3 months
11	May 13, 2019	Aug 27, 2019	3 and a half months
12	Aug 27, 2019	Dec 4, 2019	3 months
13	Dec 4, 2019	Mar 25, 2020	3 and a half months
14	Mar 25, 2020	Sep 23, 2020	6 months

How Are Rocket League Seasons Counted

On September 23, 2020, Psyonix converted Rocket League to a free-to-play system across all platforms. Along with the change, the game added cross-platform progression that takes into account the cosmetic items that players have acquired, as well as brand-new, fiercely competitive tournaments at all ranks to compete for and earn rewards, new challenges, and other features.

As a result of this, the season number counter was reset, and seasons in Rocket League once again started from Rocket League Season 1. If this is something that has always been confusing you, you can take a look at the tables above.

What Does A Season End In Rocket League Mean

The end of a Rocket League season and the beginning of a new one bring about many things to players and the community.

Rocket League Rank Reset

Everyone’s rank gets reset and everyone starts as unranked once again. You will need to play 10 placement matches as unranked per game mode, until the game’s algorithm assigns you your new rank for the new season.

Rocket Pass

Players may buy a new Rocket Pass upon the competitive season start date, which allows them access to 100 levels of unlockable material, when a new season is launched. Of course, there is a free and a premium Rocket Pass version

Closer to the release, more information will be available. Players may also gain awards in this manner, and as you near level 100, you will unlock higher gifts.

The game is so popular that it has become an essential component of Esports, where competitors compete for significant prize money. With strong hopes that season 8 would be equally as popular as the current season 7 has been, the creators must keep producing top-notch seasons.

Rocket League Season Rewards

No matter what rank you are, you will get season rewards at the end of every season, and the rewards depend on what rank you are. The only possible way you can prevent yourself from being eligible for season rewards is if you don’t play the initial 10 unranked games, and when the season end arrives, you still haven’t achieved a rank (in other words you are still unranked).

Rocket League Season Updates

Each Rocket League season brings about updates that serve to improve the game for everyone involved. These can range from minor bug fixes or design changes, to funny little tidbits like changing the way the current player population is displayed from a specific number to just 2 possible options - good and great. 

A new arena, car or cosmetic options  are always a welcome addition to the game, such as a new arena called ‘Neo Tokyo (Comic) introduced in Rocket League season 6. or Utopia Coliseum (Gilded) and a new car introduced in season 7 “Maestro”, the most recent additions at the time of writing this article.

Sometimes though, changes are extremely relevant and make a significant impact on the game. A good example of this is improved custom training. After this particular update, you no longer have to complete training pack shots in a specific order. Instead, you can choose the order of shots yourself. Is that 4th shot giving you trouble? Well, now you can simply next it and move on to the next one.

In addition, you can now simply save your training progress, go out, come back and continue from where you left off, without needing to go from the start again. In our opinion, quality of life updates allowing a smoother grind to that ever elusive competitive supersonic legend rank such as this one are amazing, and Psyonix deserves praise for them.