diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
index 2aa3fc98033..527057d35d4 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
@@ -352,8 +352,6 @@ func (f *KubeletFlags) AddFlags(mainfs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	fs.BoolVar(&f.SeccompDefault, "seccomp-default", f.SeccompDefault, "<Warning: Alpha feature> Enable the use of `RuntimeDefault` as the default seccomp profile for all workloads. The SeccompDefault feature gate must be enabled to allow this flag, which is disabled per default.")
 
 	// DEPRECATED FLAGS
-	fs.StringVar(&f.BootstrapKubeconfig, "experimental-bootstrap-kubeconfig", f.BootstrapKubeconfig, "")
-	fs.MarkDeprecated("experimental-bootstrap-kubeconfig", "Use --bootstrap-kubeconfig")
 	fs.DurationVar(&f.MinimumGCAge.Duration, "minimum-container-ttl-duration", f.MinimumGCAge.Duration, "Minimum age for a finished container before it is garbage collected.  Examples: '300ms', '10s' or '2h45m'")
 	fs.MarkDeprecated("minimum-container-ttl-duration", "Use --eviction-hard or --eviction-soft instead. Will be removed in a future version.")
 	fs.Int32Var(&f.MaxPerPodContainerCount, "maximum-dead-containers-per-container", f.MaxPerPodContainerCount, "Maximum number of old instances to retain per container.  Each container takes up some disk space.")