diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index e5cda95cd..2c8924df4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         #TODO: pypy3 has problems compiling lxml
-        python-version: [ '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12' ]
+        python-version: [ '3.10', '3.11', '3.12' ]
     name: CI job (python ${{ matrix.python-version }})
 
     steps: