diff --git a/scrapy/core/downloader/contextfactory.py b/scrapy/core/downloader/contextfactory.py
index b01ee97f3..d1ba6208a 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/downloader/contextfactory.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/downloader/contextfactory.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from scrapy.core.downloader.tls import (
     openssl_methods,
 )
 from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+from scrapy.utils.deprecate import method_is_overridden
 from scrapy.utils.misc import build_from_crawler, load_object
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -62,6 +63,13 @@ class ScrapyClientContextFactory(BrowserLikePolicyForHTTPS):
             self.tls_ciphers = AcceptableCiphers.fromOpenSSLCipherString(tls_ciphers)
         else:
             self.tls_ciphers = DEFAULT_CIPHERS
+        if method_is_overridden(type(self), ScrapyClientContextFactory, "getContext"):
+            warnings.warn(
+                "Overriding ScrapyClientContextFactory.getContext() is deprecated and that method"
+                " will be removed in a future Scrapy version. Override creatorForNetloc() instead.",
+                category=ScrapyDeprecationWarning,
+                stacklevel=2,
+            )
 
     @classmethod
     def from_settings(
@@ -121,7 +129,6 @@ class ScrapyClientContextFactory(BrowserLikePolicyForHTTPS):
     # kept for old-style HTTP/1.0 downloader context twisted calls,
     # e.g. connectSSL()
     def getContext(self, hostname: Any = None, port: Any = None) -> SSL.Context:
-        # FIXME
         ctx: SSL.Context = self.getCertificateOptions().getContext()
         ctx.set_options(0x4)  # OP_LEGACY_SERVER_CONNECT
         return ctx
diff --git a/tests/test_core_downloader.py b/tests/test_core_downloader.py
index 0a0c0a4f0..e67337fc7 100644
--- a/tests/test_core_downloader.py
+++ b/tests/test_core_downloader.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import shutil
+import warnings
 from pathlib import Path
 from tempfile import mkdtemp
+from typing import Any
 
 import OpenSSL.SSL
 import pytest
@@ -92,6 +94,22 @@ class ContextFactoryTestCase(ContextFactoryBaseTestCase):
         )
         self.assertEqual(body, to_bytes(s))
 
+    def test_override_getContext(self):
+        class MyFactory(ScrapyClientContextFactory):
+            def getContext(
+                self, hostname: Any = None, port: Any = None
+            ) -> OpenSSL.SSL.Context:
+                ctx: OpenSSL.SSL.Context = super().getContext(hostname, port)
+                return ctx
+
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+            MyFactory()
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
+            self.assertIn(
+                "Overriding ScrapyClientContextFactory.getContext() is deprecated",
+                str(w[0].message),
+            )
+
 
 class ContextFactoryTLSMethodTestCase(ContextFactoryBaseTestCase):
     async def _assert_factory_works(