diff --git a/requirements/testing_without_asyncio.txt b/requirements/testing_without_asyncio.txt
index 441b49f8b..46909c07d 100644
--- a/requirements/testing_without_asyncio.txt
+++ b/requirements/testing_without_asyncio.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # pip install -r requirements/testing_without_asyncio.txt
 pytest<8.5
-pytest-cov>=3,<8
+pytest-cov>=7.1.0,<8; python_version>="3.14"  # only needed to evaluate coverage on the latest supported python version