diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index d538083b76..af330eeacf 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1015,6 +1015,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-brotli/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-bsdiff4/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-cached-property/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-cachetools/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-can/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-canopen/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-cbor/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-cachetools/Config.in b/package/python-cachetools/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..550e3d2560
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-cachetools/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CACHETOOLS
+	bool "python-cachetools"
+	help
+	  Extensible memoizing collections and decorators.
+
+	  https://github.com/tkem/cachetools/
diff --git a/package/python-cachetools/python-cachetools.hash b/package/python-cachetools/python-cachetools.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b6b939191
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-cachetools/python-cachetools.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/cachetools/json
+md5  5317c13b69c4021e925a2fbbc199bcc9  cachetools-5.3.2.tar.gz
+sha256  086ee420196f7b2ab9ca2db2520aca326318b68fe5ba8bc4d49cca91add450f2  cachetools-5.3.2.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256  76260c1370a7d41d5fac71a27d781f3add5d7249adfbbfa930846d2d9e47dbd5  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-cachetools/python-cachetools.mk b/package/python-cachetools/python-cachetools.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c841e0761f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-cachetools/python-cachetools.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-cachetools
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_CACHETOOLS_VERSION = 5.3.2
+PYTHON_CACHETOOLS_SOURCE = cachetools-$(PYTHON_CACHETOOLS_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_CACHETOOLS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/10/21/1b6880557742c49d5b0c4dcf0cf544b441509246cdd71182e0847ac859d5
+PYTHON_CACHETOOLS_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_CACHETOOLS_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_CACHETOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(python-package))