diff --git a/playbooks/python/readthedocs.yaml b/playbooks/python/readthedocs.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index e5e0fc737..000000000
--- a/playbooks/python/readthedocs.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-- hosts: localhost
-  tasks:
-    - name: Trigger readthedocs build URI
-      uri:
-        method: POST
-        url: 'https://readthedocs.org/build/{{ zuul.project.short_name }}'
-        follow_redirects: all
diff --git a/zuul.yaml b/zuul.yaml
index 61cfaf467..c9aeb376f 100644
--- a/zuul.yaml
+++ b/zuul.yaml
@@ -306,13 +306,6 @@
       - test-requirements.txt
       - tox.ini
 
-- job:
-    name: trigger-readthedocs
-    description: Send a trigger to the readthedocs url to tell it to build docs
-    nodeset:
-      nodes: []
-    run: playbooks/python/readthedocs.yaml
-
 - job:
     name: multinode
     abstract: true