diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/premake/3.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/premake/3.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7eabdae30648..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/premake/3.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
-  unzip,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "premake";
-  version = "3.7";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/sourceforge/premake/premake-src-${version}.zip";
-    sha256 = "b59841a519e75d5b6566848a2c5be2f91455bf0cc6ae4d688fcbd4c40db934d5";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ unzip ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    install -Dm755 bin/premake $out/bin/premake
-  '';
-
-  premake_cmd = "premake";
-  setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://premake.github.io/";
-    description = "Simple build configuration and project generation tool using lua";
-    mainProgram = "premake";
-    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index d50348731954..57d37d719398 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1523,6 +1523,7 @@ mapAliases {
   pocket-updater-utility = pupdate; # Added 2024-01-25
   poppler_utils = poppler-utils; # Added 2025-02-27
   powerline-rs = throw "'powerline-rs' has been removed due to lack of upstream maintenance"; # Added 2025-01-26
+  premake3 = throw "'premake3' has been removed since it is unmaintained. Consider using 'premake' instead"; # Added 2025-05-10
   prismlauncher-qt5 = throw "'prismlauncher-qt5' has been removed from nixpkgs. Please use 'prismlauncher'"; # Added 2024-04-20
   prismlauncher-qt5-unwrapped = throw "'prismlauncher-qt5-unwrapped' has been removed from nixpkgs. Please use 'prismlauncher-unwrapped'"; # Added 2024-04-20
   probe-rs = probe-rs-tools; # Added 2024-05-23
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 87e8e3032f93..b36a8a52b50d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7578,8 +7578,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   pyprof2calltree = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication pyprof2calltree;
 
-  premake3 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/premake/3.nix { };
-
   premake4 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/premake { };
 
   premake5 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/premake/5.nix { };