diff --git a/contrib/zlib-ng-cmake/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/zlib-ng-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
index 0b7564c6420..371a07dd31a 100644
--- a/contrib/zlib-ng-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/zlib-ng-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ set(ZLIB_SRCS
 set(ZLIB_ALL_SRCS ${ZLIB_SRCS} ${ZLIB_ARCH_SRCS})
 
 add_library(_zlib ${ZLIB_ALL_SRCS})
-add_library(zlibstatic ALIAS _zlib)
 add_library(ch_contrib::zlib ALIAS _zlib)
 
 # https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/pull/733