diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/82831_countme_yum_repository.yml b/changelogs/fragments/82831_countme_yum_repository.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7f6bec4c487
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/82831_countme_yum_repository.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - support the countme option when using yum_repository
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/yum_repository.py b/lib/ansible/modules/yum_repository.py
index c171c6c611a..88f8cd065bd 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/yum_repository.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/yum_repository.py
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ options:
       - Relative cost of accessing this repository. Useful for weighing one
         repo's packages as greater/less than any other.
     type: str
+  countme:
+    description:
+      - Whether a special flag should be added to a randomly chosen metalink/mirrorlist query each week.
+        This allows the repository owner to estimate the number of systems consuming it.
+    default: ~
+    type: bool
+    version_added: '2.18'
   deltarpm_metadata_percentage:
     description:
       - When the relative size of deltarpm metadata vs pkgs is larger than
@@ -432,6 +439,7 @@ class YumRepo(object):
         'bandwidth',
         'baseurl',
         'cost',
+        'countme',
         'deltarpm_metadata_percentage',
         'deltarpm_percentage',
         'enabled',
@@ -581,6 +589,7 @@ def main():
         bandwidth=dict(),
         baseurl=dict(type='list', elements='str'),
         cost=dict(),
+        countme=dict(type='bool'),
         deltarpm_metadata_percentage=dict(),
         deltarpm_percentage=dict(),
         description=dict(),
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/yum_repository/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/yum_repository/tasks/main.yml
index 7813af06ef2..5b50d7dfc1a 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/yum_repository/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/yum_repository/tasks/main.yml
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
         baseurl: "{{ yum_repository_test_repo.baseurl }}"
         description: New description
         async: no
+        countme: yes
         enablegroups: no
         file: "{{ yum_repository_test_repo.name ~ 2 }}"
         ip_resolve: 4
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@
         that:
           - "'async = 0' in repo_file_contents"
           - "'name = New description' in repo_file_contents"
+          - "'countme = 1' in repo_file_contents"
           - "'enablegroups = 0' in repo_file_contents"
           - "'ip_resolve = 4' in repo_file_contents"
           - "'keepalive = 0' in repo_file_contents"
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@
         baseurl: "{{ yum_repository_test_repo.baseurl }}"
         description: New description
         async: no
+        countme: yes
         enablegroups: no
         file: "{{ yum_repository_test_repo.name ~ 2 }}"
         ip_resolve: 4