diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/globalflags_providers.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/globalflags_providers.go
index 9fde6b7f4f2..100c575846c 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/globalflags_providers.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/globalflags_providers.go
@@ -27,4 +27,5 @@ func addLegacyCloudProviderCredentialProviderFlags(global, local *pflag.FlagSet)
 	// TODO(#58034): This is not a static file, so it's not quite as straightforward as --google-json-key.
 	// We need to figure out how ACR users can dynamically provide pull credentials before we can deprecate this.
 	pflagRegister(global, local, "azure-container-registry-config")
+	local.MarkDeprecated("azure-container-registry-config", "Use --image-credential-provider-config and --image-credential-provider-bin-dir to setup acr credential provider instead. Will be removed in a future release.")
 }