diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 463707bc328c..ada1ff76b954 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -9392,6 +9392,12 @@
     name = "Tomas Krupka";
     matrix = "@krupkat:matrix.org";
   };
+  krzaczek = {
+    name = "Pawel Krzaczkowski";
+    email = "pawel@printu.pl";
+    github = "krzaczek";
+    githubId = 5773701;
+  };
   ktf = {
     email = "giulio.eulisse@cern.ch";
     github = "ktf";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/phalcon/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/phalcon/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6f998be9a1f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/phalcon/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ buildPecl, lib, pcre2, fetchFromGitHub, php, pkg-config }:
+
+buildPecl rec {
+  pname = "phalcon";
+  version = "5.3.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "phalcon";
+    repo = "cphalcon";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-82DJ+Qx0OYhw9Nv6FkAoyBec8WWfAiqNfBU9Ll/8RfA=";
+  };
+
+  internalDeps = [ php.extensions.session php.extensions.pdo ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+  buildInputs = [ pcre2 ];
+
+  sourceRoot = "${src.name}/build/phalcon";
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Phalcon is a full stack PHP framework offering low resource consumption and high performance.";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    homepage = "https://phalcon.io";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members ++ [ maintainers.krzaczek ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
index 2e810ca09927..34e0bfb5d7d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ lib.makeScope pkgs.newScope (self: with self; {
 
     pdo_sqlsrv = callPackage ../development/php-packages/pdo_sqlsrv { };
 
+    phalcon = callPackage ../development/php-packages/phalcon { };
+
     pinba = callPackage ../development/php-packages/pinba { };
 
     protobuf = callPackage ../development/php-packages/protobuf { };