diff --git a/main/src/main/scala/sbt/TemplateCommandUtil.scala b/main/src/main/scala/sbt/TemplateCommandUtil.scala
index cb3fff768..aeaff1ae8 100644
--- a/main/src/main/scala/sbt/TemplateCommandUtil.scala
+++ b/main/src/main/scala/sbt/TemplateCommandUtil.scala
@@ -339,7 +339,6 @@ lazy val core = (projectMatrix in file("core"))
     IO.write(new File("build.sbt"), content)
 
     val pluginsContent = """
-addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-projectmatrix" % "0.10.0")
 addSbtPlugin("org.scala-js" % "sbt-scalajs" % "1.17.0")
 addSbtPlugin("org.scala-native" % "sbt-scala-native" % "0.5.5")
 """