diff --git a/scrapy/utils/python.py b/scrapy/utils/python.py
index 5703fd4c3..0bf9bff70 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/python.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/python.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from functools import partial, wraps
 from itertools import chain
 
 from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+from scrapy.utils.asyncgen import as_async_generator
 from scrapy.utils.decorators import deprecated
 
 
@@ -355,3 +356,27 @@ class MutableChain:
     @deprecated("scrapy.utils.python.MutableChain.__next__")
     def next(self):
         return self.__next__()
+
+
+async def _async_chain(*iterables):
+    for it in iterables:
+        async for o in as_async_generator(it):
+            yield o
+
+
+class MutableAsyncChain:
+    """
+    Similar to MutableChain but for async iterables
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *args):
+        self.data = _async_chain(*args)
+
+    def extend(self, *aiterables):
+        self.data = _async_chain(self.data, _async_chain(*aiterables))
+
+    def __aiter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    async def __anext__(self):
+        return await self.data.__anext__()
diff --git a/tests/test_utils_python.py b/tests/test_utils_python.py
index 3115cc92f..58b384591 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils_python.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils_python.py
@@ -2,15 +2,18 @@ import functools
 import gc
 import operator
 import platform
-import unittest
 from datetime import datetime
 from itertools import count
 from warnings import catch_warnings
 
+from twisted.trial import unittest
+
+from scrapy.utils.asyncgen import as_async_generator, collect_asyncgen
+from scrapy.utils.defer import deferred_f_from_coro_f, aiter_errback
 from scrapy.utils.python import (
     memoizemethod_noargs, binary_is_text, equal_attributes,
     WeakKeyCache, get_func_args, to_bytes, to_unicode,
-    without_none_values, MutableChain)
+    without_none_values, MutableChain, MutableAsyncChain)
 
 
 __doctests__ = ['scrapy.utils.python']
@@ -32,6 +35,57 @@ class MutableChainTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(list(m), list(range(3, 13)))
 
 
+class MutableAsyncChainTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    @staticmethod
+    async def g1():
+        for i in range(3):
+            yield i
+
+    @staticmethod
+    async def g2():
+        return
+        yield
+
+    @staticmethod
+    async def g3():
+        for i in range(7, 10):
+            yield i
+
+    @staticmethod
+    async def g4():
+        for i in range(3, 5):
+            yield i
+        1 / 0
+        for i in range(5, 7):
+            yield i
+
+    @staticmethod
+    async def collect_asyncgen_exc(asyncgen):
+        results = []
+        async for x in asyncgen:
+            results.append(x)
+        return results
+
+    @deferred_f_from_coro_f
+    async def test_mutableasyncchain(self):
+        m = MutableAsyncChain(self.g1(), as_async_generator(range(3, 7)))
+        m.extend(self.g2())
+        m.extend(self.g3())
+
+        self.assertEqual(await m.__anext__(), 0)
+        results = await collect_asyncgen(m)
+        self.assertEqual(results, list(range(1, 10)))
+
+    @deferred_f_from_coro_f
+    async def test_mutableasyncchain_exc(self):
+        m = MutableAsyncChain(self.g1())
+        m.extend(self.g4())
+        m.extend(self.g3())
+
+        results = await collect_asyncgen(aiter_errback(m, lambda _: None))
+        self.assertEqual(results, list(range(5)))
+
+
 class ToUnicodeTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_converting_an_utf8_encoded_string_to_unicode(self):
         self.assertEqual(to_unicode(b'lel\xc3\xb1e'), 'lel\xf1e')