diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
index 2ed6584..636fa86 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       max-parallel: 4
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8]
+        python-version: [3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v1
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e0709e5..25999a0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 codecov
 coverage
-ftfy
+ftfy==4.4.3; python_version <= '2.7'
+ftfy==5.9.0; python_version >= '3.0' and python_version <= '3.5'
+ftfy; python_version >= '3.6'
 mailchecker
 phonenumbers
 python-dateutil