diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d5a1d2247..671c90b8a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ PyYAML
 rasterio
 requests
 shapely<2.0
+SQLAlchemy<2.0.0
 tinydb
 unicodecsv
-SQLAlchemy<2.0.0