Confectionery pumpkin (Cucurbito pepo L.) is one of the main snacks in the world. It could be consumed both with husk and also hulless kernels. While hulless types are using generally for producing pumpkin oil to use mostly in salads, also over cakes and ingredients in recipes, normal types are consuming mostly as confectionery. It is also so healthy both having essential minerals and valuable antioxidants and also use commonly in diets and treatments to cure some diseases such as prostate, etc. China, Russia, India, Ukraine and United States are the main producer countries in the world. Confectionery pumpkins mainly grows in drylands in the world but irrigation increase much both seed yield and also seed weight. Mostly open pollinated cultivars use in the production but the hybrids are increasing the rates also in the market in recent years. However, hybrid production is not easy and is possible by hand with higher labor cost because of that there is no genetic and cytoplasmic male sterility in pumpkins. On the other hand, some chemical hybridization agents such as ethrel suggested to reduce especially male sterility. Therefore, it needs urgent development soon on both getting genetic and chemical male sterility. Beside, some biotic stress such as viruses, fungal diseases and also weeds are main reducing factors confectionery pumpkin production too. Therefore, new hybrids should have these resistant genes to these diseases in addition to higher seed yielding capacity and higher adaptation to different environments. Furthermore, there is few herbicides supplying effective weed control in pumpkin production. Recently, some molecular breeding methods especially molecular markers (MAS) are using extensively to develop new hybrids and inbred lines and to accelerate breeding program in pumpkins. On the other hand, more drought tolerance, bigger seed size, fatty acids especially high oleic for longer shelf life, E vitamin (tocopherol), new plant designs for less vines and semi bush types to increase plants per area, etc. are main goals in confectionery pumpkin breeding programs in addition to higher seed yield and quality.