diff --git a/manifests/fedora-coreos-base.yaml b/manifests/fedora-coreos-base.yaml
index ba39393294..5f428b1858 100644
--- a/manifests/fedora-coreos-base.yaml
+++ b/manifests/fedora-coreos-base.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ ostree-layers:
   - overlay/05core
   - overlay/08nouveau
   - overlay/09misc
-  - overlay/14NetworkManager-plugins
   - overlay/20platform-chrony
 
 # Be minimal
diff --git a/manifests/fedora-coreos.yaml b/manifests/fedora-coreos.yaml
index ed3eac3c47..bc2d203551 100644
--- a/manifests/fedora-coreos.yaml
+++ b/manifests/fedora-coreos.yaml
@@ -134,9 +134,6 @@ postprocess:
 
 
 remove-from-packages:
-  # Drop NetworkManager support for ifcfg files, see also corresponding
-  # overlay.d/14NetworkManager-plugins
-  - [NetworkManager, /usr/lib64/NetworkManager/.*/libnm-settings-plugin-ifcfg-rh.so]
   # Drop some buggy sysusers fragments which do not match static IDs allocation:
   # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2105177
   - [dbus-common, /usr/lib/sysusers.d/dbus.conf]
@@ -169,3 +166,6 @@ exclude-packages:
   # For (datacenter/cloud oriented) servers, we want to see the details by default.
   # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/HSMISZ3ETWQ4ETVLWZQJ55ARZT27AAV3/
   - plymouth
+  # Do not use legacy ifcfg config format in NetworkManager
+  # See https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1991
+  - NetworkManager-initscripts-ifcfg-rh
diff --git a/overlay.d/14NetworkManager-plugins/statoverride b/overlay.d/14NetworkManager-plugins/statoverride
deleted file mode 100644
index 27a95affe2..0000000000
--- a/overlay.d/14NetworkManager-plugins/statoverride
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# Config file for overriding permission bits on overlay files/dirs
-# Format: =<file mode in decimal> <absolute path to a file or directory>
diff --git a/overlay.d/14NetworkManager-plugins/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-disable-default-plugins.conf b/overlay.d/14NetworkManager-plugins/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-disable-default-plugins.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index cabc5bb7f1..0000000000
--- a/overlay.d/14NetworkManager-plugins/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-disable-default-plugins.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Stop NetworkManager from trying to load the ifcfg-rh plugin by default,
-# which we don't ship.  This actually disables all default plugins, of which
-# ifcfg-rh is currently the only one.
-#
-# Note that we must do this for now because `-=` syntax doesn't work
-# with compiled-in defaults. Proposed upstream fix:
-# https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/491
-[main]
-plugins=
diff --git a/overlay.d/README.md b/overlay.d/README.md
index f57d9e9e57..ece8485284 100644
--- a/overlay.d/README.md
+++ b/overlay.d/README.md
@@ -28,11 +28,6 @@ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1700056
 
 Warning about `/etc/sysconfig`.
 
-14NetworkManager-plugins
-------------------------
-
-Disables the Red Hat Linux legacy `ifcfg` format.
-
 15fcos
 ------