diff --git a/docs/source/design.rst b/docs/source/design.rst
index 88180a82..85157666 100644
--- a/docs/source/design.rst
+++ b/docs/source/design.rst
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ WSGI application, this is not a recommended configuration.
 AsyncIO Workers
 ---------------
 
-These workers are compatible with python3. You have two kind of workers.
+These workers are compatible with Python 3.
 
 The worker `gthread` is a threaded worker. It accepts connections in the
 main loop, accepted connections are added to the thread pool as a
@@ -67,24 +67,8 @@ connection job. On keepalive connections are put back in the loop
 waiting for an event. If no event happen after the keep alive timeout,
 the connection is closed.
 
-The worker `gaiohttp` is a full asyncio worker using aiohttp_.
-
-.. note::
-   The ``gaiohttp`` worker requires the aiohttp_ module to be installed.
-   aiohttp_ has removed its native WSGI application support in version 2.
-   If you want to continue to use the ``gaiohttp`` worker with your WSGI
-   application (e.g. an application that uses Flask or Django), there are
-   three options available:
-
-   #. Install aiohttp_ version 1.3.5 instead of version 2::
-
-        $ pip install aiohttp==1.3.5
-
-   #. Use aiohttp_wsgi_ to wrap your WSGI application. You can take a look
-      at the `example`_ in the Gunicorn repository.
-   #. Port your application to use aiohttp_'s ``web.Application`` API.
-   #. Use the ``aiohttp.worker.GunicornWebWorker`` worker instead of the
-      deprecated ``gaiohttp`` worker.
+You can port also your application to use aiohttp_'s `web.Application`` API and use the
+``aiohttp.worker.GunicornWebWorker`` worker.
 
 Choosing a Worker Type
 ======================
@@ -150,13 +134,12 @@ the worker processes (unlike when using the preload setting, which loads the
 code in the master process).
 
 .. note::
-   Under Python 2.x, you need to install the 'futures' package to use this 
+   Under Python 2.x, you need to install the 'futures' package to use this
    feature.
 
 .. _Greenlets: https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet
 .. _Eventlet: http://eventlet.net/
 .. _Gevent: http://www.gevent.org/
 .. _Hey: https://github.com/rakyll/hey
-.. _aiohttp: https://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
-.. _aiohttp_wsgi: https://aiohttp-wsgi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
+.. _aiohttp: https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/deployment.html#nginx-gunicorn
 .. _`example`: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/master/examples/frameworks/flaskapp_aiohttp_wsgi.py
diff --git a/docs/source/run.rst b/docs/source/run.rst
index d0799fa0..070f6ea5 100644
--- a/docs/source/run.rst
+++ b/docs/source/run.rst
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Commonly Used Arguments
   to run. You'll definitely want to read the production page for the
   implications of this parameter. You can set this to ``$(NAME)``
   where ``$(NAME)`` is one of ``sync``, ``eventlet``, ``gevent``,
-  ``tornado``, ``gthread``, ``gaiohttp`` (deprecated).
+  ``tornado``, ``gthread``.
   ``sync`` is the default. See the :ref:`worker-class` documentation for more
   information.
 * ``-n APP_NAME, --name=APP_NAME`` - If setproctitle_ is installed you can
diff --git a/gunicorn/config.py b/gunicorn/config.py
index e460e627..29a42f23 100644
--- a/gunicorn/config.py
+++ b/gunicorn/config.py
@@ -630,25 +630,19 @@ class WorkerClass(Setting):
         A string referring to one of the following bundled classes:
 
         * ``sync``
-        * ``eventlet`` - Requires eventlet >= 0.9.7 (or install it via 
+        * ``eventlet`` - Requires eventlet >= 0.9.7 (or install it via
           ``pip install gunicorn[eventlet]``)
-        * ``gevent``   - Requires gevent >= 0.13 (or install it via 
+        * ``gevent``   - Requires gevent >= 0.13 (or install it via
           ``pip install gunicorn[gevent]``)
-        * ``tornado``  - Requires tornado >= 0.2 (or install it via 
+        * ``tornado``  - Requires tornado >= 0.2 (or install it via
           ``pip install gunicorn[tornado]``)
         * ``gthread``  - Python 2 requires the futures package to be installed
           (or install it via ``pip install gunicorn[gthread]``)
-        * ``gaiohttp`` - Deprecated.
 
         Optionally, you can provide your own worker by giving Gunicorn a
         Python path to a subclass of ``gunicorn.workers.base.Worker``.
         This alternative syntax will load the gevent class:
         ``gunicorn.workers.ggevent.GeventWorker``.
-
-        .. deprecated:: 19.8
-           The ``gaiohttp`` worker is deprecated. Please use
-           ``aiohttp.worker.GunicornWebWorker`` instead. See
-           :ref:`asyncio-workers` for more information on how to use it.
         """
 
 class WorkerThreads(Setting):
@@ -671,7 +665,7 @@ class WorkerThreads(Setting):
         If it is not defined, the default is ``1``.
 
         This setting only affects the Gthread worker type.
-        
+
         .. note::
            If you try to use the ``sync`` worker type and set the ``threads``
            setting to more than 1, the ``gthread`` worker type will be used
diff --git a/gunicorn/workers/__init__.py b/gunicorn/workers/__init__.py
index 29c04c2a..ae753e1c 100644
--- a/gunicorn/workers/__init__.py
+++ b/gunicorn/workers/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 SUPPORTED_WORKERS = {
     "sync": "gunicorn.workers.sync.SyncWorker",
     "eventlet": "gunicorn.workers.geventlet.EventletWorker",
-    "gaiohttp": "gunicorn.workers.gaiohttp.AiohttpWorker",
     "gevent": "gunicorn.workers.ggevent.GeventWorker",
     "gevent_wsgi": "gunicorn.workers.ggevent.GeventPyWSGIWorker",
     "gevent_pywsgi": "gunicorn.workers.ggevent.GeventPyWSGIWorker",
diff --git a/gunicorn/workers/_gaiohttp.py b/gunicorn/workers/_gaiohttp.py
deleted file mode 100644
index fe378c35..00000000
--- a/gunicorn/workers/_gaiohttp.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,168 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -
-#
-# This file is part of gunicorn released under the MIT license.
-# See the NOTICE for more information.
-
-import asyncio
-import datetime
-import functools
-import logging
-import os
-
-try:
-    import ssl
-except ImportError:
-    ssl = None
-
-import gunicorn.workers.base as base
-
-from aiohttp.wsgi import WSGIServerHttpProtocol as OldWSGIServerHttpProtocol
-
-
-class WSGIServerHttpProtocol(OldWSGIServerHttpProtocol):
-    def log_access(self, request, environ, response, time):
-        self.logger.access(response, request, environ, datetime.timedelta(0, 0, time))
-
-
-class AiohttpWorker(base.Worker):
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):  # pragma: no cover
-        super().__init__(*args, **kw)
-        cfg = self.cfg
-        if cfg.is_ssl:
-            self.ssl_context = self._create_ssl_context(cfg)
-        else:
-            self.ssl_context = None
-        self.servers = []
-        self.connections = {}
-
-    def init_process(self):
-        # create new event_loop after fork
-        asyncio.get_event_loop().close()
-
-        self.loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
-        asyncio.set_event_loop(self.loop)
-
-        super().init_process()
-
-    def run(self):
-        self._runner = asyncio.ensure_future(self._run(), loop=self.loop)
-
-        try:
-            self.loop.run_until_complete(self._runner)
-        finally:
-            self.loop.close()
-
-    def wrap_protocol(self, proto):
-        proto.connection_made = _wrp(
-            proto, proto.connection_made, self.connections)
-        proto.connection_lost = _wrp(
-            proto, proto.connection_lost, self.connections, False)
-        return proto
-
-    def factory(self, wsgi, addr):
-        # are we in debug level
-        is_debug = self.log.loglevel == logging.DEBUG
-
-        proto = WSGIServerHttpProtocol(
-            wsgi, readpayload=True,
-            loop=self.loop,
-            log=self.log,
-            debug=is_debug,
-            keep_alive=self.cfg.keepalive,
-            access_log=self.log.access_log,
-            access_log_format=self.cfg.access_log_format)
-        return self.wrap_protocol(proto)
-
-    def get_factory(self, sock, addr):
-        return functools.partial(self.factory, self.wsgi, addr)
-
-    @asyncio.coroutine
-    def close(self):
-        try:
-            if hasattr(self.wsgi, 'close'):
-                yield from self.wsgi.close()
-        except:
-            self.log.exception('Process shutdown exception')
-
-    @asyncio.coroutine
-    def _run(self):
-        for sock in self.sockets:
-            factory = self.get_factory(sock.sock, sock.cfg_addr)
-            self.servers.append(
-                (yield from self._create_server(factory, sock)))
-
-        # If our parent changed then we shut down.
-        pid = os.getpid()
-        try:
-            while self.alive or self.connections:
-                self.notify()
-
-                if (self.alive and
-                        pid == os.getpid() and self.ppid != os.getppid()):
-                    self.log.info("Parent changed, shutting down: %s", self)
-                    self.alive = False
-
-                # stop accepting requests
-                if not self.alive:
-                    if self.servers:
-                        self.log.info(
-                            "Stopping server: %s, connections: %s",
-                            pid, len(self.connections))
-                        for server in self.servers:
-                            server.close()
-                        self.servers.clear()
-
-                    # prepare connections for closing
-                    for conn in self.connections.values():
-                        if hasattr(conn, 'closing'):
-                            conn.closing()
-
-                yield from asyncio.sleep(1.0, loop=self.loop)
-        except KeyboardInterrupt:
-            pass
-
-        if self.servers:
-            for server in self.servers:
-                server.close()
-
-        yield from self.close()
-
-    @asyncio.coroutine
-    def _create_server(self, factory, sock):
-        return self.loop.create_server(factory, sock=sock.sock,
-                                       ssl=self.ssl_context)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _create_ssl_context(cfg):
-        """ Creates SSLContext instance for usage in asyncio.create_server.
-
-        See ssl.SSLSocket.__init__ for more details.
-        """
-        ctx = ssl.SSLContext(cfg.ssl_version)
-        ctx.load_cert_chain(cfg.certfile, cfg.keyfile)
-        ctx.verify_mode = cfg.cert_reqs
-        if cfg.ca_certs:
-            ctx.load_verify_locations(cfg.ca_certs)
-        if cfg.ciphers:
-            ctx.set_ciphers(cfg.ciphers)
-        return ctx
-
-
-class _wrp:
-
-    def __init__(self, proto, meth, tracking, add=True):
-        self._proto = proto
-        self._id = id(proto)
-        self._meth = meth
-        self._tracking = tracking
-        self._add = add
-
-    def __call__(self, *args):
-        if self._add:
-            self._tracking[self._id] = self._proto
-        elif self._id in self._tracking:
-            del self._tracking[self._id]
-
-        conn = self._meth(*args)
-        return conn
diff --git a/gunicorn/workers/gaiohttp.py b/gunicorn/workers/gaiohttp.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b8248259..00000000
--- a/gunicorn/workers/gaiohttp.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -
-#
-# This file is part of gunicorn released under the MIT license.
-# See the NOTICE for more information.
-
-from gunicorn import util
-
-try:
-    import aiohttp  # pylint: disable=unused-import
-except ImportError:
-    raise RuntimeError("You need aiohttp installed to use this worker.")
-else:
-    try:
-        from aiohttp.worker import GunicornWebWorker as AiohttpWorker
-    except ImportError:
-        from gunicorn.workers._gaiohttp import AiohttpWorker
-
-    util.warn(
-        "The 'gaiohttp' worker is deprecated. See --worker-class "
-        "documentation for more information."
-    )
-    __all__ = ['AiohttpWorker']
diff --git a/tests/test_gaiohttp.py b/tests/test_gaiohttp.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e58f36c1..00000000
--- a/tests/test_gaiohttp.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,193 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -
-#
-# This file is part of gunicorn released under the MIT license.
-# See the NOTICE for more information.
-
-import unittest
-import pytest
-
-aiohttp = pytest.importorskip("aiohttp")
-WSGIServerHttpProtocol = pytest.importorskip("aiohttp.wsgi.WSGIServerHttpProtocol")
-
-import asyncio
-from gunicorn.workers import gaiohttp
-from gunicorn.workers._gaiohttp import _wrp
-from gunicorn.config import Config
-from unittest import mock
-
-
-class WorkerTests(unittest.TestCase):
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
-        asyncio.set_event_loop(None)
-        self.worker = gaiohttp.AiohttpWorker('age',
-                                             'ppid',
-                                             'sockets',
-                                             'app',
-                                             'timeout',
-                                             Config(),
-                                             'log')
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        self.loop.close()
-
-    @mock.patch('gunicorn.workers._gaiohttp.asyncio')
-    def test_init_process(self, m_asyncio):
-        try:
-            self.worker.init_process()
-        except TypeError:
-            # to mask incomplete initialization of AiohttWorker instance:
-            # we pass invalid values for ctor args
-            pass
-
-        self.assertTrue(m_asyncio.get_event_loop.return_value.close.called)
-        self.assertTrue(m_asyncio.new_event_loop.called)
-        self.assertTrue(m_asyncio.set_event_loop.called)
-
-    @mock.patch('gunicorn.workers._gaiohttp.asyncio')
-    def test_run(self, m_asyncio):
-        self.worker.loop = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.run()
-
-        self.assertTrue(m_asyncio.ensure_future.called)
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.loop.run_until_complete.called)
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.loop.close.called)
-
-    def test_factory(self):
-        self.worker.wsgi = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.loop = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.log = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.cfg = Config()
-
-        f = self.worker.factory(
-            self.worker.wsgi, ('localhost', 8080))
-        self.assertIsInstance(f, WSGIServerHttpProtocol)
-
-    @mock.patch('gunicorn.workers._gaiohttp.asyncio')
-    def test__run(self, m_asyncio):
-        self.worker.ppid = 1
-        self.worker.alive = True
-        self.worker.servers = []
-        sock = mock.Mock()
-        sock.cfg_addr = ('localhost', 8080)
-        self.worker.sockets = [sock]
-        self.worker.wsgi = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.log = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.notify = mock.Mock()
-        loop = self.worker.loop = mock.Mock()
-        loop.create_server.return_value = asyncio.Future(loop=self.loop)
-        loop.create_server.return_value.set_result(sock)
-
-        self.loop.run_until_complete(self.worker._run())
-
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.log.info.called)
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.notify.called)
-
-    @mock.patch('gunicorn.workers._gaiohttp.asyncio')
-    def test__run_unix_socket(self, m_asyncio):
-        self.worker.ppid = 1
-        self.worker.alive = True
-        self.worker.servers = []
-        sock = mock.Mock()
-        sock.cfg_addr = '/tmp/gunicorn.sock'
-        self.worker.sockets = [sock]
-        self.worker.wsgi = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.log = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.notify = mock.Mock()
-        loop = self.worker.loop = mock.Mock()
-        loop.create_server.return_value = asyncio.Future(loop=self.loop)
-        loop.create_server.return_value.set_result(sock)
-
-        self.loop.run_until_complete(self.worker._run())
-
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.log.info.called)
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.notify.called)
-
-    def test__run_connections(self):
-        conn = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.ppid = 1
-        self.worker.alive = False
-        self.worker.servers = [mock.Mock()]
-        self.worker.connections = {1: conn}
-        self.worker.sockets = []
-        self.worker.wsgi = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.log = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.loop = self.loop
-        self.worker.loop.create_server = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.notify = mock.Mock()
-
-        def _close_conns():
-            self.worker.connections = {}
-
-        self.loop.call_later(0.1, _close_conns)
-        self.loop.run_until_complete(self.worker._run())
-
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.log.info.called)
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.notify.called)
-        self.assertFalse(self.worker.servers)
-        self.assertTrue(conn.closing.called)
-
-    @mock.patch('gunicorn.workers._gaiohttp.os')
-    @mock.patch('gunicorn.workers._gaiohttp.asyncio.sleep')
-    def test__run_exc(self, m_sleep, m_os):
-        m_os.getpid.return_value = 1
-        m_os.getppid.return_value = 1
-
-        self.worker.servers = [mock.Mock()]
-        self.worker.ppid = 1
-        self.worker.alive = True
-        self.worker.sockets = []
-        self.worker.log = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.loop = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.notify = mock.Mock()
-
-        slp = asyncio.Future(loop=self.loop)
-        slp.set_exception(KeyboardInterrupt)
-        m_sleep.return_value = slp
-
-        self.loop.run_until_complete(self.worker._run())
-        self.assertTrue(m_sleep.called)
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.servers[0].close.called)
-
-    def test_close_wsgi_app(self):
-        self.worker.ppid = 1
-        self.worker.alive = False
-        self.worker.servers = [mock.Mock()]
-        self.worker.connections = {}
-        self.worker.sockets = []
-        self.worker.log = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.loop = self.loop
-        self.worker.loop.create_server = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.notify = mock.Mock()
-
-        self.worker.wsgi = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.wsgi.close.return_value = asyncio.Future(loop=self.loop)
-        self.worker.wsgi.close.return_value.set_result(1)
-
-        self.loop.run_until_complete(self.worker._run())
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.wsgi.close.called)
-
-        self.worker.wsgi = mock.Mock()
-        self.worker.wsgi.close.return_value = asyncio.Future(loop=self.loop)
-        self.worker.wsgi.close.return_value.set_exception(ValueError())
-
-        self.loop.run_until_complete(self.worker._run())
-        self.assertTrue(self.worker.wsgi.close.called)
-
-    def test_wrp(self):
-        conn = object()
-        tracking = {}
-        meth = mock.Mock()
-        wrp = _wrp(conn, meth, tracking)
-        wrp()
-
-        self.assertIn(id(conn), tracking)
-        self.assertTrue(meth.called)
-
-        meth = mock.Mock()
-        wrp = _wrp(conn, meth, tracking, False)
-        wrp()
-
-        self.assertNotIn(1, tracking)
-        self.assertTrue(meth.called)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index d2868ddb..47249d6e 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ commands =
     gunicorn \
     tests/test_arbiter.py \
     tests/test_config.py \
-    tests/test_gaiohttp.py \
     tests/test_http.py \
     tests/test_invalid_requests.py \
     tests/test_logger.py \