diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/php_excel/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/php_excel/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0930926a06e0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/php_excel/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-{ buildPecl, fetchurl, lib, libxl, php }:
-let
-  pname = "php_excel";
-  phpVersion = "php7";
-  version = "1.0.2";
-in
-buildPecl {
-  inherit pname version;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/iliaal/php_excel/releases/download/Excel-1.0.2-PHP7/excel-${version}-${phpVersion}.tgz";
-    sha256 = "0dpvih9gpiyh1ml22zi7hi6kslkilzby00z1p8x248idylldzs2n";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ libxl ];
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--with-excel"
-    "--with-libxl-incdir=${libxl}/include_c"
-    "--with-libxl-libdir=${libxl}/lib"
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "PHP Extension interface to the Excel writing/reading library";
-    license = licenses.php301;
-    homepage = "https://github.com/iliaal/php_excel";
-    maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
-    broken = lib.versionAtLeast php.version "8.0";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
index e28817ac17cd..91e6da336ba8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
@@ -258,8 +258,6 @@ lib.makeScope pkgs.newScope (self: with self; {
 
     pdo_sqlsrv = callPackage ../development/php-packages/pdo_sqlsrv { };
 
-    php_excel = callPackage ../development/php-packages/php_excel { };
-
     pinba = callPackage ../development/php-packages/pinba { };
 
     protobuf = callPackage ../development/php-packages/protobuf { };