diff --git a/cli/commands.go b/cli/commands.go
index f138868b..9106afc5 100644
--- a/cli/commands.go
+++ b/cli/commands.go
@@ -68,17 +68,6 @@ func CreateCluster(c *cli.Context) error {
 
 	// define image
 	image := c.String("image")
-	if c.IsSet("version") {
-		// TODO: --version to be deprecated
-		log.Println("[WARNING] The `--version` flag will be deprecated soon, please use `--image rancher/k3s:<version>` instead")
-		if c.IsSet("image") {
-			// version specified, custom image = error (to push deprecation of version flag)
-			log.Fatalln("[ERROR] Please use `--image <image>:<version>` instead of --image and --version")
-		} else {
-			// version specified, default image = ok (until deprecation of version flag)
-			image = fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", strings.Split(image, ":")[0], c.String("version"))
-		}
-	}
 	if len(strings.Split(image, "/")) <= 2 {
 		// fallback to default registry
 		image = fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s", defaultRegistry, image)
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 35d11e74..6b7abb92 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -91,11 +91,6 @@ func main() {
 					Value: 0,
 					Usage: "Automatically add an offset (* worker number) to the chosen host port when using `--publish` to map the same container-port from multiple k3d workers to the host",
 				},
-				cli.StringFlag{
-					// TODO: to be deprecated
-					Name:  "version",
-					Usage: "Choose the k3s image version",
-				},
 				cli.StringFlag{
 					// TODO: only --api-port, -a soon since we want to use --port, -p for the --publish/--add-port functionality
 					Name:  "api-port, a, port, p",