diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2a3757315..70da69bbc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ cbor = ["cbor2 >= 5.0"]
 mongodb = ["pymongo >= 4"]
 mqtt = ["paho-mqtt >= 2.0"]
 redis = ["redis >= 4.4.0"]
-sqlalchemy = ["sqlalchemy >= 2.0.19"]
+sqlalchemy = ["sqlalchemy[asyncio] >= 2.0.19"]
 test = [
     "APScheduler[cbor,mongodb,mqtt,redis,sqlalchemy]",
     "asyncpg >= 0.20; python_implementation == 'CPython'",