diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/image-match/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/image-match/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 799f7888cfb2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/image-match/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, pytest-runner, scikit-image }:
-
-buildPythonPackage {
-  pname = "image-match";
-  version = "1.1.2";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "ascribe";
-    repo = "image-match";
-    rev = "1c5f3170555540bdf43ff8b8189c4e8c13a8b950";
-    sha256 = "0vlmpidmhkpgdzw2k03x5layhijcrjpmyfd93yv2ls77ihz00ix5";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ pytest-runner ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    scikit-image
-  ];
-
-  # remove elasticsearch requirement due to version incompatibility
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace setup.py --replace "'elasticsearch>=5.0.0,<6.0.0'," ""
-  '';
-
-  # tests cannot work without elasticsearch
-  doCheck = false;
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "image_match" ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/ascribe/image-match";
-    description = "Quickly search over billions of images";
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ cmcdragonkai ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index f44a985d0199..023c7a48142c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   ihatemoney = throw "ihatemoney was removed because it is no longer maintained downstream"; # added 2023-04-08
   IMAPClient = imapclient; # added 2021-10-28
   imdbpy = throw "imdbpy has been renamed to cinemagoer"; # added 2022-08-08
+  image-match = throw "image-match has been removed because it is no longer maintained"; # added 2023-06-10
   intreehook =  throw "intreehooks has been removed because it is obsolete as a backend-path key was added to PEP 517"; # added 2023-04-11
   ipaddress = throw "ipaddress has been removed because it is no longer required since python 2.7."; # added 2022-05-30
   influxgraph = throw "influxgraph has been removed because it is no longer maintained"; # added 2022-07-10
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e44b27d24d48..7161fa46a767 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4845,8 +4845,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   image-go-nord = callPackage ../development/python-modules/image-go-nord { };
 
-  image-match = callPackage ../development/python-modules/image-match { };
-
   imagesize = callPackage ../development/python-modules/imagesize { };
 
   imantics = callPackage ../development/python-modules/imantics { };