diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/chunked.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/chunked.py
index 57e97e4d2..fd90aab2a 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/chunked.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/chunked.py
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
+import warnings
+
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
 from scrapy.utils.http import decode_chunked_transfer
 
 
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.chunked.ChunkedTransferMiddleware` "
+              "is deprecated, chunked transfers are supported by default.",
+              ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+
+
 class ChunkedTransferMiddleware(object):
     """This middleware adds support for chunked transfer encoding, as
     documented in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding