diff --git a/homeassistant/helpers/aiohttp_client.py b/homeassistant/helpers/aiohttp_client.py
index b8d810d899b7b..fba9bb647ddd5 100644
--- a/homeassistant/helpers/aiohttp_client.py
+++ b/homeassistant/helpers/aiohttp_client.py
@@ -58,19 +58,6 @@
 MAXIMUM_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOST = 100
 
 
-# Overwrite base aiohttp _wait implementation
-# Homeassistant has a custom shutdown wait logic.
-async def _noop_wait(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
-    """Do nothing."""
-    return
-
-
-# TODO: Remove version check with aiohttp 3.9.0  # pylint: disable=fixme
-if sys.version_info >= (3, 12):
-    # pylint: disable-next=protected-access
-    web.BaseSite._wait = _noop_wait  # type: ignore[method-assign]
-
-
 class HassClientResponse(aiohttp.ClientResponse):
     """aiohttp.ClientResponse with a json method that uses json_loads by default."""
 
diff --git a/homeassistant/package_constraints.txt b/homeassistant/package_constraints.txt
index eaf7dc0dadd51..04ab96748d2a0 100644
--- a/homeassistant/package_constraints.txt
+++ b/homeassistant/package_constraints.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ aiodiscover==1.5.1
 aiohttp-fast-url-dispatcher==0.1.0
 aiohttp-zlib-ng==0.1.1
 aiohttp==3.8.5;python_version<'3.12'
-aiohttp==3.9.0b0;python_version>='3.12'
+aiohttp==3.9.0rc0;python_version>='3.12'
 aiohttp_cors==0.7.0
 astral==2.2
 async-upnp-client==0.36.2
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 550cafc414627..67657586ea53e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.11.0"
 dependencies    = [
-    "aiohttp==3.9.0b0;python_version>='3.12'",
+    "aiohttp==3.9.0rc0;python_version>='3.12'",
     "aiohttp==3.8.5;python_version<'3.12'",
     "aiohttp_cors==0.7.0",
     "aiohttp-fast-url-dispatcher==0.1.0",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f751354a4a30c..5b33374b7cc58 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 -c homeassistant/package_constraints.txt
 
 # Home Assistant Core
-aiohttp==3.9.0b0;python_version>='3.12'
+aiohttp==3.9.0rc0;python_version>='3.12'
 aiohttp==3.8.5;python_version<'3.12'
 aiohttp_cors==0.7.0
 aiohttp-fast-url-dispatcher==0.1.0
diff --git a/tests/test_util/aiohttp.py b/tests/test_util/aiohttp.py
index ac874fcc45c93..4f2518253ffa1 100644
--- a/tests/test_util/aiohttp.py
+++ b/tests/test_util/aiohttp.py
@@ -280,6 +280,12 @@ def raise_for_status(self):
     def close(self):
         """Mock close."""
 
+    async def wait_for_close(self):
+        """Wait until all requests are done.
+
+        Do nothing as we are mocking.
+        """
+
     @property
     def response(self):
         """Property method to expose the response to other read methods."""