diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
index 6a8873148..8927d97db 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
       # for example if a test fails only when Cython is enabled
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
         use-cython: ['true', 'false']
         experimental: [false]
         include:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3748de325..6ddfebde8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "faust-streaming"
 description = "Python Stream Processing. A Faust fork"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dynamic = [
     "version",
     "optional-dependencies",