diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 44351cf3ca..ecd22e2194 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -146,6 +146,14 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2026.02"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_AIOREDIS
+	bool "python-aioredis has been removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_REDIS
+	help
+	  python-aioredis was abandoned upstream and replaced by
+	  python-redis
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCUEFILE
 	bool "libcuefile has been removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 0b11a7df48..6ad17c1925 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -981,7 +981,6 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-aiomonitor/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-aiomqtt/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-aioprocessing/Config.in"
-	source "package/python-aioredis/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-aiorwlock/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-aiosignal/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-aiosqlite/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-aioredis/Config.in b/package/python-aioredis/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 46ed2c7a46..0000000000
--- a/package/python-aioredis/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_AIOREDIS
-	bool "python-aioredis"
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_ASYNC_TIMEOUT # runtime
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_HIREDIS # runtime
-	help
-	  Provides simple and clear interface to Redis based on asyncio.
-
-	  https://github.com/aio-libs/aioredis
diff --git a/package/python-aioredis/python-aioredis.hash b/package/python-aioredis/python-aioredis.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index 29e6361014..0000000000
--- a/package/python-aioredis/python-aioredis.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/aioredis/json
-md5  8f3547af83ef4b863b18c19f23166a9d  aioredis-2.0.1.tar.gz
-sha256  eaa51aaf993f2d71f54b70527c440437ba65340588afeb786cd87c55c89cd98e  aioredis-2.0.1.tar.gz
-# Locally computed sha256 checksums
-sha256  183b21f240e41af611c951d01d4f36793d470a82d5fd79efc21f25ae4cf68543  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-aioredis/python-aioredis.mk b/package/python-aioredis/python-aioredis.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 798dbd0c3c..0000000000
--- a/package/python-aioredis/python-aioredis.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# python-aioredis
-#
-################################################################################
-
-PYTHON_AIOREDIS_VERSION = 2.0.1
-PYTHON_AIOREDIS_SOURCE = aioredis-$(PYTHON_AIOREDIS_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_AIOREDIS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2e/cf/9eb144a0b05809ffc5d29045c4b51039000ea275bc1268d0351c9e7dfc06
-PYTHON_AIOREDIS_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
-PYTHON_AIOREDIS_LICENSE = MIT
-PYTHON_AIOREDIS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
-
-$(eval $(python-package))