diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 439bccb76..f465ee16a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "third_party/ninja"]
-	path = third_party/ninja
-	url = https://github.com/martine/ninja.git
 [submodule "third_party/gflags"]
 	path = third_party/gflags
 	url = https://github.com/benvanik/gflags.git
diff --git a/third_party/ninja b/third_party/ninja
deleted file mode 160000
index a3c823c3d..000000000
--- a/third_party/ninja
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit a3c823c3da70bd46d69341f13184cdae4c77645d