diff --git a/aiohttp/compression_utils.py b/aiohttp/compression_utils.py
index 8abc4fa7c3c..52791fe5015 100644
--- a/aiohttp/compression_utils.py
+++ b/aiohttp/compression_utils.py
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 from typing import Optional, cast
 
 try:
-    import brotli
+    try:
+        import brotlicffi as brotli
+    except ImportError:
+        import brotli
 
     HAS_BROTLI = True
 except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/docs/client_quickstart.rst b/docs/client_quickstart.rst
index 92334a5f4b4..840711f461e 100644
--- a/docs/client_quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/client_quickstart.rst
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ The ``gzip`` and ``deflate`` transfer-encodings are automatically
 decoded for you.
 
 You can enable ``brotli`` transfer-encodings support,
-just install  `Brotli <https://pypi.org/project/Brotli>`_.
+just install `brotlicffi <https://pypi.org/project/brotlicffi/>`_
+or `Brotli <https://pypi.org/project/Brotli/>`_.
 
 JSON Request
 ============
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 62e03c5baa9..ee0aff64cbe 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ Dependencies
 
      $ pip install aiodns
 
-- *Optional* :term:`Brotli` for brotli (:rfc:`7932`) client compression support.
+- *Optional* :term:`brotlicffi` or  :term:`Brotli` for brotli (:rfc:`7932`)
+  client compression support.
 
   .. code-block:: bash
 
diff --git a/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt b/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
index 4c732ddd1d4..62ad5957fe5 100644
--- a/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
+++ b/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ boolean
 botocore
 brotli
 Brotli
+brotlicffi
 brotlipy
 bugfix
 Bugfixes
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index cc3fc71808f..c223c59e4c9 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ install_requires =
 speedups =
   # required c-ares (aiodns' backend) will not build on windows
   aiodns >= 1.1; sys_platform=="linux" or sys_platform=="darwin"
-  Brotli
+  Brotli; platform_python_implementation == 'CPython'
+  brotlicffi; platform_python_implementation != 'CPython'
 
 [options.packages.find]
 exclude =
diff --git a/tests/test_http_parser.py b/tests/test_http_parser.py
index 367cf14da95..6b0ec24103e 100644
--- a/tests/test_http_parser.py
+++ b/tests/test_http_parser.py
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@
 )
 
 try:
-    import brotli
+    try:
+        import brotlicffi as brotli
+    except ImportError:
+        import brotli
 except ImportError:
     brotli = None
 
diff --git a/tests/test_web_functional.py b/tests/test_web_functional.py
index 5641d2c9096..05ca6afb8bf 100644
--- a/tests/test_web_functional.py
+++ b/tests/test_web_functional.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 from typing import Any, Optional
 from unittest import mock
 
-import brotli
 import pytest
 from multidict import CIMultiDictProxy, MultiDict
 from yarl import URL
@@ -19,6 +18,11 @@
 from aiohttp.test_utils import make_mocked_coro
 from aiohttp.typedefs import Handler
 
+try:
+    import brotlicffi as brotli
+except ImportError:
+    import brotli
+
 try:
     import ssl
 except ImportError: