diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4bdab4eb93c7..ba090844331e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -291,3 +291,10 @@ ignore_messages = [
     "No role entry for \"external+.*\".",
     "Unknown interpreted text role \"external+.*\"."
 ]
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+# Because tests can be run from an installed copy, most of our Pytest
+# configuration is in the `pytest_configure` function in
+# `lib/matplotlib/testing/conftest.py`.
+minversion = "7.0"
+testpaths = ["lib"]
diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index 68920f59be01..000000000000
--- a/pytest.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# Because tests can be run from an installed copy, most of our Pytest
-# configuration is in the `pytest_configure` function in
-# `lib/matplotlib/testing/conftest.py`. This configuration file exists only to
-# set a minimum pytest version and to prevent pytest from wasting time trying
-# to check examples and documentation files that are not really tests.
-
-[pytest]
-minversion = 7.0.0
-
-testpaths = lib
-python_files = test_*.py
-junit_family = xunit2