diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c8411882..1802b406 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ docs = [
 requires = [
     "packaging>=20",
     "setuptools>=60",
-    "wheel",
     "Cython~=3.1",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"