diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 5c1096c9..708567ba 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -62,23 +62,3 @@ jobs:
           opam install containers-data --deps-only  # no test deps
       - run: opam exec -- dune build '@install'
       - run: opam exec -- dune runtest -j 1 -p containers --profile=release # test only core on non-ubuntu platform
-
-  format:
-    name: format
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        ocaml-compiler:
-            - '5.2'
-    runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@main
-      - name: Use OCaml ${{ matrix.ocaml-compiler }}
-        uses: ocaml/setup-ocaml@v3
-        with:
-          ocaml-compiler: ${{ matrix.ocaml-compiler }}
-          dune-cache: true
-          allow-prerelease-opam: true
-
-      - run: opam install ocamlformat.0.26.2
-      - run: opam exec -- make format-check
-