diff --git a/django/utils/functional.py b/django/utils/functional.py
index 7d5b7feea5..794f31047c 100644
--- a/django/utils/functional.py
+++ b/django/utils/functional.py
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 import copy
 import operator
-import warnings
 from functools import total_ordering, wraps
 
 from django.utils import six
-from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
 
 
 # You can't trivially replace this with `functools.partial` because this binds
@@ -189,14 +187,6 @@ def lazystr(text):
     return lazy(force_text, six.text_type)(text)
 
 
-def allow_lazy(func, *resultclasses):
-    warnings.warn(
-        "django.utils.functional.allow_lazy() is deprecated in favor of "
-        "django.utils.functional.keep_lazy()",
-        RemovedInDjango20Warning, 2)
-    return keep_lazy(*resultclasses)(func)
-
-
 def keep_lazy(*resultclasses):
     """
     A decorator that allows a function to be called with one or more lazy
diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt
index 1105dc9a16..5870c955f6 100644
--- a/docs/ref/utils.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt
@@ -518,13 +518,6 @@ https://web.archive.org/web/20110718035220/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004
         z = person.friends         # does not call
         x is z                     # is True
 
-.. function:: allow_lazy(func, *resultclasses)
-
-    .. deprecated:: 1.10
-
-    Works like :meth:`~django.utils.functional.keep_lazy` except that it can't
-    be used as a decorator.
-
 .. function:: keep_lazy(func, *resultclasses)
 
     .. versionadded:: 1.10
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.txt b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
index 0bc5c8d388..1acfdb5900 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
@@ -336,3 +336,5 @@ these features.
 
 * The ``cascaded_union`` property of ``django.contrib.gis.geos.MultiPolygon``
   is removed.
+
+* ``django.utils.functional.allow_lazy()`` is removed.
diff --git a/tests/decorators/tests.py b/tests/decorators/tests.py
index f8f8f4dc0a..851c2b8daa 100644
--- a/tests/decorators/tests.py
+++ b/tests/decorators/tests.py
@@ -8,13 +8,9 @@ from django.contrib.auth.decorators import (
 from django.http import HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpResponseNotAllowed
 from django.middleware.clickjacking import XFrameOptionsMiddleware
 from django.test import SimpleTestCase
-from django.utils import six
 from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
-from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
-from django.utils.encoding import force_text
-from django.utils.functional import allow_lazy, keep_lazy, keep_lazy_text, lazy
+from django.utils.functional import keep_lazy, keep_lazy_text, lazy
 from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy
 from django.views.decorators.cache import (
     cache_control, cache_page, never_cache,
 )
@@ -155,15 +151,6 @@ class DecoratorsTest(TestCase):
         request.method = 'DELETE'
         self.assertIsInstance(my_safe_view(request), HttpResponseNotAllowed)
 
-    def test_deprecated_allow_lazy(self):
-        with self.assertRaises(RemovedInDjango20Warning):
-            def noop_text(text):
-                return force_text(text)
-            noop_text = allow_lazy(noop_text, six.text_type)
-            rendered = noop_text(ugettext_lazy("I am a text"))
-            self.assertEqual(type(rendered), six.text_type)
-            self.assertEqual(rendered, "I am a text")
-
 
 # For testing method_decorator, a decorator that assumes a single argument.
 # We will get type arguments if there is a mismatch in the number of arguments.