diff --git a/codec-http2/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/Http2Headers.java b/codec-http2/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/Http2Headers.java
index 1a91de58de..fde3126c11 100644
--- a/codec-http2/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/Http2Headers.java
+++ b/codec-http2/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/Http2Headers.java
@@ -55,7 +55,13 @@ public interface Http2Headers extends Headers<CharSequence, CharSequence, Http2H
         /**
          * {@code :status}.
          */
-        STATUS(":status", false);
+        STATUS(":status", false),
+
+        /**
+         * {@code :protocol}, as defined in <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8441/">RFC 8441,
+         * Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/2</a>.
+         */
+        PROTOCOL(":protocol", true);
 
         private static final char PSEUDO_HEADER_PREFIX = ':';
         private static final byte PSEUDO_HEADER_PREFIX_BYTE = (byte) PSEUDO_HEADER_PREFIX;
diff --git a/codec-http2/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/DefaultHttp2HeadersTest.java b/codec-http2/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/DefaultHttp2HeadersTest.java
index dbd73c6c9c..ddcee1388b 100644
--- a/codec-http2/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/DefaultHttp2HeadersTest.java
+++ b/codec-http2/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/DefaultHttp2HeadersTest.java
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ public class DefaultHttp2HeadersTest {
         headers.authority(of("netty.io"));
         headers.add(of("name3"), of("value4"));
         headers.scheme(of("https"));
+        headers.add(of(":protocol"), of("websocket"));
         return headers;
     }
 }