diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dcfeae6323..8f2824a4ab 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ banned-from = [
 "yt_dlp.compat.compat_os_name".msg = "Use `os.name` instead."
 "yt_dlp.compat.compat_realpath".msg = "Use `os.path.realpath` instead."
 "yt_dlp.compat.compat_shlex_quote".msg = "Use `yt_dlp.utils.shell_quote` instead."
+"yt_dlp.compat.functools".msg = "Use `functools` instead."
 "yt_dlp.utils.bytes_to_intlist".msg = "Use `list` instead."
 "yt_dlp.utils.compiled_regex_type".msg = "Use `re.Pattern` instead."
 "yt_dlp.utils.intlist_to_bytes".msg = "Use `bytes` instead."
diff --git a/yt_dlp/compat/_deprecated.py b/yt_dlp/compat/_deprecated.py
index 1b764aaa79..445acc1a06 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/compat/_deprecated.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/compat/_deprecated.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ passthrough_module(__name__, '.._legacy', callback=lambda attr: warnings.warn(
     DeprecationWarning(f'{__name__}.{attr} is deprecated'), stacklevel=6))
 del passthrough_module
 
+import functools  # noqa: F401
 import os
 
 
diff --git a/yt_dlp/compat/functools.py b/yt_dlp/compat/functools.py
deleted file mode 100644
index c2e9e90279..0000000000
--- a/yt_dlp/compat/functools.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# flake8: noqa: F405
-from functools import *  # noqa: F403
-
-from .compat_utils import passthrough_module
-
-passthrough_module(__name__, 'functools')
-del passthrough_module