diff --git a/ibis/backends/pyspark/__init__.py b/ibis/backends/pyspark/__init__.py
index 5afa1d207760..13cff792a649 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/pyspark/__init__.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/pyspark/__init__.py
@@ -197,7 +197,6 @@ def do_connect(self, session: SparkSession | None = None) -> None:
 
             session = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
 
-        self._context = session.sparkContext
         self._session = session
 
         # Spark internally stores timestamps as UTC values, and timestamp data