How to Get the 2025 Service Medal in CS2

If you want the 2025 Service Medal in Counter Strike 2, the rule is simple: reach Profile Rank 40 on official Valve servers, then claim the medal by pressing the in game “Get Service Medal” button. Once you claim it, your profile rank resets and you can keep grinding to upgrade the medal to higher color tiers by hitting Rank 40 again within the same year.

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What is the 2025 Service Medal in CS2

The Service Medal is a yearly profile award that shows you hit the top profile level in that calendar year. Every year has its own medal design, so the 2025 version is visually different from 2024, 2023, and so on. It is not about your Competitive rank or Premier rating. It is tied to Profile Rank, which you level up by earning XP in official game modes.

You can also upgrade the same year medal. After you claim your first 2025 medal at Rank 40, you can keep playing, reach Rank 40 again, and the 2025 medal upgrades to the next color tier. That is why you will sometimes see players with the same year medal in different colors.

Why Valve created Service Medals in the first place

Service Medals grew out of Valve’s Profile Rank system, which was introduced in 2015 with the Profile Ranks update. The whole point of Profile Ranks was to give players a long term progression track that rewards time spent playing on official servers and earning XP.

Not long after Profile Ranks arrived, the Service Medal concept became the “capstone reward” for reaching the maximum profile rank, basically a badge that proves you hit the level cap and kept grinding. Over time, Valve also supported multiple tiers so players who hit Rank 40 more than once in the same year could show that extra grind with upgraded medal levels.

Why Valve created Service Medals in the first place

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Requirements to get the 2025 Service Medal

To earn it, you need all of the following:

A CS2 account that can play online on official servers
Earn XP by playing official game modes
Reach Profile Rank 40
Claim the medal from your profile rank screen using the “Get Service Medal” button

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Requirements to get the 2025 Service Medal

Step by step: How to get the 2025 Service Medal in CS2

Step 1: Make sure you are earning XP the right way

XP for profile ranks is earned by playing on official servers. Profile Ranks were designed around that loop: play official, earn XP, rank up.

Good news: you do not need to lock yourself into one mode forever. Most common official modes contribute to XP, so pick the one you can consistently play well without burning out.

Step 2: Grind your Profile Rank up to 40

Keep playing and stacking XP until you hit Profile Rank 40. In CS terms, this is the top of the profile ladder for that cycle.

Practical tips that actually help most players:

Play modes you can win consistently, because consistency beats “one huge session” motivation
Queue with friends when possible so you waste less time on chaotic matches
Focus on clean rounds and objective play, because it tends to translate into steadier XP over time.

Step 3: Claim the medal when the button appears

Once you hit Rank 40, CS2 gives you the option to claim your Service Medal. You will see a “Get Service Medal” button near your profile rank progress area. Click it, confirm, and the 2025 medal is added to your inventory of profile flair.

Important detail: claiming the medal resets your profile rank back to the start, so do not panic when you see your rank drop. That reset is the whole mechanic.

Step 4: Upgrade the 2025 medal by repeating Rank 40 again

If you want more than the base 2025 medal, keep playing after the reset. Every time you reach Rank 40 again in 2025, you upgrade that same year’s medal to the next tier color.

2025 Service Medal tiers and colors

Here is the simple way to think about it: first time Rank 40 gives you the base medal, then each extra Rank 40 in the same year upgrades it.

2025 Medal tier	What you need to do
Level 1 Grey	Reach Rank 40 once in 2025 and claim it
Level 2 Green	Reach Rank 40 again in 2025 and claim again
Level 3 Blue	Reach Rank 40 a third time in 2025
Level 4 Purple	Reach Rank 40 a fourth time in 2025
Level 5 Pink	Reach Rank 40 a fifth time in 2025
Level 6 Red	Reach Rank 40 a sixth time in 2025