diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d16ecd8..2456ad6 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ setup(
     platforms='any',
     install_requires=[
         'six>=1.9.0',
-        'python-engineio>=2.2.0'
+        'python-engineio>=3.0.0'
     ],
     tests_require=[
         'mock',