diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4b6cc8137..f65ffd6cc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "setuptools >= 61.2",
-    "wheel >= 0.29.0",
     "versioningit >= 2.0.1"
 ]
 build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'