diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-venv-pkg-resources.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-venv-pkg-resources.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5065e50d04d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-venv-pkg-resources.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ansible-test - Make sure import sanity test virtual environments also remove ``pkg-resources`` if it is not removed by uninstalling ``setuptools``.
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/sanity/import.py b/test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/sanity/import.py
index 319b9d23b02..7d566fd9ee0 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/sanity/import.py
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/sanity/import.py
@@ -125,6 +125,17 @@ class ImportTest(SanityMultipleVersion):
             run_command(args, generate_pip_install(virtualenv_pip, 'sanity.import', packages=['setuptools']), env=env, capture=capture_pip)
             run_command(args, generate_pip_install(virtualenv_pip, 'sanity.import', packages=['coverage']), env=env, capture=capture_pip)
 
+        try:
+            # In some environments pkg_resources is installed as a separate pip package which needs to be removed.
+            # For example, using Python 3.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 a virtualenv is created with only pip and setuptools.
+            # However, a venv is created with an additional pkg-resources package which is independent of setuptools.
+            # Making sure pkg-resources is removed preserves the import test consistency between venv and virtualenv.
+            # Additionally, in the above example, the pyparsing package vendored with pkg-resources is out-of-date and generates deprecation warnings.
+            # Thus it is important to remove pkg-resources to prevent system installed packages from generating deprecation warnings.
+            run_command(args, virtualenv_pip + ['uninstall', '--disable-pip-version-check', '-y', 'pkg-resources'], env=env, capture=capture_pip)
+        except SubprocessError:
+            pass
+
         run_command(args, virtualenv_pip + ['uninstall', '--disable-pip-version-check', '-y', 'setuptools'], env=env, capture=capture_pip)
         run_command(args, virtualenv_pip + ['uninstall', '--disable-pip-version-check', '-y', 'pip'], env=env, capture=capture_pip)