diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-decorator-constraint.yml b/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-decorator-constraint.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f7335e8ba43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-decorator-constraint.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+    - ansible-test - Add constraint for ``decorator`` for Python versions prior to 3.5.
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt
index 135080bfb59..325daff0095 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 0.6.0  # keep in sync with `requirements.txt`
 coverage >= 4.5.1, < 5.0.0 ; python_version <  '3.7' # coverage 4.4 required for "disable_warnings" support but 4.5.1 needed for bug fixes, coverage 5.0+ incompatible
 coverage >= 4.5.2, < 5.0.0 ; python_version == '3.7' # coverage 4.5.2 fixes bugs in support for python 3.7, coverage 5.0+ incompatible
 coverage >= 4.5.4, < 5.0.0 ; python_version >  '3.7' # coverage had a bug in < 4.5.4 that would cause unit tests to hang in Python 3.8, coverage 5.0+ incompatible
+decorator < 5.0.0 ; python_version < '3.5' # decorator 5.0.5 and later require python 3.5 or later
 six < 1.14.0 ; python_version < '2.7' # six 1.14.0 drops support for python 2.6
 cryptography < 2.2 ; python_version < '2.7' # cryptography 2.2 drops support for python 2.6
 # do not add a cryptography constraint here unless it is for python version incompatibility, see the get_cryptography_requirement function in executor.py for details