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Deleting a team

Organization owners can delete teams at any time from the team's settings page.

Tip: Only organization owners can delete parent teams. For more information, see "About teams."

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

  2. Click the name of your organization.

  3. Under your organization name, click Teams.

    Screenshot of the horizontal navigation bar for an organization. A tab, labeled with the people icon and "Teams," is outlined in dark orange.

  4. Select the team or teams you'd like to delete.

    Screenshot of the first two teams in the list of teams. To the left of each team, a checkbox is checked and outlined in dark orange.

  5. Above the list of teams, select the X teams selected dropdown menu and click Delete.

    Screenshot of the "Teams" page. Above the list of teams, a dropdown menu, labeled "2 teams selected", is outlined in dark orange.

  6. Review the team or teams that will be deleted, then click I understand, delete teams.