diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
index 5b4a896c67..6081582c65 100644
--- a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ dependencies:
 *  memcached_, plus a :ref:`supported Python binding <memcached>`
 *  gettext_ (:ref:`gettext_on_windows`)
 *  selenium_
-*  sqlparse_ (required)
+*  sqlparse_ 0.2.2+ (required)
 *  tblib_ 1.5.0+
 
 You can find these dependencies in `pip requirements files`_ inside the
diff --git a/docs/releases/3.0.txt b/docs/releases/3.0.txt
index 801be32b54..d3656d6883 100644
--- a/docs/releases/3.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/3.0.txt
@@ -550,6 +550,8 @@ Miscellaneous
 * ``alias=None`` is added to the signature of
   :meth:`.Expression.get_group_by_cols`.
 
+* Support for ``sqlparse`` < 0.2.2 is removed.
+
 .. _deprecated-features-3.0:
 
 Features deprecated in 3.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2561fd4a7a..155014df21 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ setup(
     entry_points={'console_scripts': [
         'django-admin = django.core.management:execute_from_command_line',
     ]},
-    install_requires=['pytz', 'sqlparse', 'asgiref'],
+    install_requires=['pytz', 'sqlparse >= 0.2.2', 'asgiref'],
     extras_require={
         "bcrypt": ["bcrypt"],
         "argon2": ["argon2-cffi >= 16.1.0"],
diff --git a/tests/requirements/py3.txt b/tests/requirements/py3.txt
index ec0f1d78cd..1b29012ff0 100644
--- a/tests/requirements/py3.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements/py3.txt
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ pytz
 pywatchman; sys.platform != 'win32'
 PyYAML
 selenium
-sqlparse
+sqlparse >= 0.2.2
 tblib >= 1.5.0