diff --git a/devel/Makefile b/devel/Makefile
index daa0c3b658d1..279112718d9e 100644
--- a/devel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/Makefile
@@ -4167,6 +4167,7 @@
     SUBDIR += py-backports.functools_lru_cache
     SUBDIR += py-backports.shutil_get_terminal_size
     SUBDIR += py-backports_abc
+    SUBDIR += py-backports.weakref
     SUBDIR += py-bandit
     SUBDIR += py-bcdoc
     SUBDIR += py-billiard
diff --git a/devel/py-backports.weakref/Makefile b/devel/py-backports.weakref/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..881c0629b159
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-backports.weakref/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Created by: Jov <amutu@amutu.com>
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+PORTNAME=	backports.weakref
+DISTVERSION=	1.0rc1
+CATEGORIES=	devel python
+MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
+
+MAINTAINER=	amutu@amutu.com
+COMMENT=	Backport of the weakref module from Python 3.4
+
+LICENSE=	PSFL
+
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm>0:devel/py-setuptools_scm
+
+USES=		python
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-backports.weakref/distinfo b/devel/py-backports.weakref/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9f832b311740
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-backports.weakref/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1498112280
+SHA256 (backports.weakref-1.0rc1.tar.gz) = 8813bf712a66b3d8b85dc289e1104ed220f1878cf981e2fe756dfaabe9a82892
+SIZE (backports.weakref-1.0rc1.tar.gz) = 7761
diff --git a/devel/py-backports.weakref/pkg-descr b/devel/py-backports.weakref/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..da07d974b038
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-backports.weakref/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+This package provides backports of new features in Python's weakref module
+under the backports namespace.
+
+WWW: https://github.com/pjdelport/backports.weakref