diff --git a/Framework/Core/src/AODReaderHelpers.cxx b/Framework/Core/src/AODReaderHelpers.cxx
index 494b5937b5ea9..5d904d76597d5 100644
--- a/Framework/Core/src/AODReaderHelpers.cxx
+++ b/Framework/Core/src/AODReaderHelpers.cxx
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 
 #include <Monitoring/Monitoring.h>
 
-#include <ROOT/RDataFrame.hxx>
 #include <TGrid.h>
 #include <TFile.h>
 #include <TTreeCache.h>