diff --git a/Dockerfile.gccgo b/Dockerfile.gccgo
deleted file mode 100644
index fc63a5c32b..0000000000
--- a/Dockerfile.gccgo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-# This file describes the standard way to build Docker, using docker
-#
-# Usage:
-#
-# # Assemble the full dev environment. This is slow the first time.
-# docker build -t docker -f Dockerfile.gccgo .
-#
-
-FROM gcc:6.1
-
-# Packaged dependencies
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
-	apparmor \
-	aufs-tools \
-	btrfs-tools \
-	build-essential \
-	curl \
-	git \
-	iptables \
-	jq \
-	net-tools \
-	libapparmor-dev \
-	libcap-dev \
-	libsqlite3-dev \
-	mercurial \
-	net-tools \
-	parallel \
-	python-dev \
-	python-mock \
-	python-pip \
-	python-websocket \
-	--no-install-recommends
-
-# Get lvm2 source for compiling statically
-RUN git clone -b v2_02_103 https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/lvm2.git /usr/local/lvm2
-# see https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/lvm2.git/refs/tags for release tags
-
-# Compile and install lvm2
-RUN cd /usr/local/lvm2 \
-	&& ./configure --enable-static_link \
-	&& make device-mapper \
-	&& make install_device-mapper
-# see https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/lvm2.git/tree/INSTALL
-
-# install seccomp: the version shipped in jessie is too old
-ENV SECCOMP_VERSION v2.3.1
-RUN set -x \
-    && export SECCOMP_PATH=$(mktemp -d) \
-    && git clone https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp.git "$SECCOMP_PATH" \
-    && ( \
-        cd "$SECCOMP_PATH" \
-        && git checkout "$SECCOMP_VERSION" \
-        && ./autogen.sh \
-        && ./configure --prefix=/usr \
-        && make \
-        && make install \
-    ) \
-    && rm -rf "$SECCOMP_PATH"
-
-ENV GOPATH /go:/go/src/github.com/docker/docker/vendor
-
-# Get the "docker-py" source so we can run their integration tests
-ENV DOCKER_PY_COMMIT e2655f658408f9ad1f62abdef3eb6ed43c0cf324
-RUN git clone https://github.com/docker/docker-py.git /docker-py \
-	&& cd /docker-py \
-	&& git checkout -q $DOCKER_PY_COMMIT
-
-# Add an unprivileged user to be used for tests which need it
-RUN groupadd -r docker
-RUN useradd --create-home --gid docker unprivilegeduser
-
-VOLUME /var/lib/docker
-WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/docker/docker
-ENV DOCKER_BUILDTAGS apparmor seccomp selinux
-
-# Install runc
-ENV RUNC_COMMIT cc29e3dded8e27ba8f65738f40d251c885030a28
-RUN set -x \
-	&& export GOPATH="$(mktemp -d)" \
-    && git clone https://github.com/opencontainers/runc.git "$GOPATH/src/github.com/opencontainers/runc" \
-	&& cd "$GOPATH/src/github.com/opencontainers/runc" \
-	&& git checkout -q "$RUNC_COMMIT" \
-	&& make static BUILDTAGS="seccomp apparmor selinux" \
-	&& cp runc /usr/local/bin/docker-runc \
-	&& rm -rf "$GOPATH"
-
-# Install containerd
-ENV CONTAINERD_COMMIT 0ac3cd1be170d180b2baed755e8f0da547ceb267
-RUN set -x \
-	&& export GOPATH="$(mktemp -d)" \
-	&& git clone https://github.com/docker/containerd.git "$GOPATH/src/github.com/docker/containerd" \
-	&& cd "$GOPATH/src/github.com/docker/containerd" \
-	&& git checkout -q "$CONTAINERD_COMMIT" \
-	&& make static \
-	&& cp bin/containerd /usr/local/bin/docker-containerd \
-	&& cp bin/containerd-shim /usr/local/bin/docker-containerd-shim \
-	&& cp bin/ctr /usr/local/bin/docker-containerd-ctr \
-	&& rm -rf "$GOPATH"
-
-# Wrap all commands in the "docker-in-docker" script to allow nested containers
-ENTRYPOINT ["hack/dind"]
-
-# Upload docker source
-COPY . /go/src/github.com/docker/docker
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 838880a737..8e809a548d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.PHONY: all binary build build-gccgo cross deb docs gccgo help init-go-pkg-cache install manpages rpm run shell test test-docker-py test-integration-cli tgz test-unit validate win
+.PHONY: all binary build cross deb docs help init-go-pkg-cache install manpages rpm run shell test test-docker-py test-integration-cli tgz test-unit validate win
 
 # set the graph driver as the current graphdriver if not set
 DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER := $(if $(DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER),$(DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER),$(shell docker info 2>&1 | grep "Storage Driver" | sed 's/.*: //'))
@@ -81,9 +81,6 @@ binary: build ## build the linux binaries
 build: bundles init-go-pkg-cache
 	docker build ${DOCKER_BUILD_ARGS} -t "$(DOCKER_IMAGE)" -f "$(DOCKERFILE)" .
 
-build-gccgo: bundles init-go-pkg-cache
-	docker build ${DOCKER_BUILD_ARGS} -t "$(DOCKER_IMAGE)-gccgo" -f Dockerfile.gccgo .
-
 bundles:
 	mkdir bundles
 
@@ -105,9 +102,6 @@ deb: build  ## build the deb packages
 docs: ## build the docs
 	$(MAKE) -C docs docs
 
-gccgo: build-gccgo ## build the gcc-go linux binaries
-	$(DOCKER_FLAGS) "$(DOCKER_IMAGE)-gccgo" hack/make.sh gccgo
-
 install: ## install the linux binaries
 	KEEPBUNDLE=1 hack/make.sh install-binary
 
diff --git a/hack/make/.integration-daemon-start b/hack/make/.integration-daemon-start
index 61324081c4..61ba6fccac 100644
--- a/hack/make/.integration-daemon-start
+++ b/hack/make/.integration-daemon-start
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # see test-integration-cli for example usage of this script
 
 base="$ABS_DEST/.."
-export PATH="$base/binary-client:$base/binary-daemon:$base/dynbinary-client:$base/dynbinary-daemon:$base/gccgo:$base/dyngccgo:$PATH"
+export PATH="$base/binary-client:$base/binary-daemon:$base/dynbinary-client:$base/dynbinary-daemon:$PATH"
 
 if ! command -v docker &> /dev/null; then
 	echo >&2 'error: binary-client or dynbinary-client must be run before .integration-daemon-start'
diff --git a/hack/make/cover b/hack/make/cover
index 624943b8aa..08e28e3fea 100644
--- a/hack/make/cover
+++ b/hack/make/cover
@@ -12,9 +12,4 @@ bundle_cover() {
 	done
 }
 
-if [ "$HAVE_GO_TEST_COVER" ]; then
-	bundle_cover 2>&1 | tee "$DEST/report.log"
-else
-	echo >&2 'warning: the current version of go does not support -cover'
-	echo >&2 '  skipping test coverage report'
-fi
+bundle_cover 2>&1 | tee "$DEST/report.log"
diff --git a/hack/make/dyngccgo b/hack/make/dyngccgo
deleted file mode 100644
index a9019e8cfa..0000000000
--- a/hack/make/dyngccgo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-(
-	export IAMSTATIC="false"
-	export EXTLDFLAGS_STATIC=''
-	export LDFLAGS_STATIC_DOCKER=''
-	export BUILDFLAGS=( "${BUILDFLAGS[@]/netgo /}" ) # disable netgo, since we don't need it for a dynamic binary
-	export BUILDFLAGS=( "${BUILDFLAGS[@]/static_build /}" ) # we're not building a "static" binary here
-	source "${MAKEDIR}/gccgo"
-)
diff --git a/hack/make/gccgo b/hack/make/gccgo
deleted file mode 100644
index 54c983eb2e..0000000000
--- a/hack/make/gccgo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-BINARY_NAME="dockerd-$VERSION"
-BINARY_EXTENSION="$(binary_extension)"
-BINARY_FULLNAME="$BINARY_NAME$BINARY_EXTENSION"
-
-PROXY_NAME="docker-proxy-$VERSION"
-PROXY_FULLNAME="$PROXY_NAME$BINARY_EXTENSION"
-
-CLIENTBIN_NAME="docker-$VERSION"
-CLIENTBIN_FULLNAME="$CLIENTBIN_NAME$BINARY_EXTENSION"
-
-source "${MAKEDIR}/.go-autogen"
-
-if [[ "${BUILDFLAGS[@]}" =~ 'netgo ' ]]; then
-	EXTLDFLAGS_STATIC+=' -lnetgo'
-fi
-# gccgo require explicit flag -pthread to allow goroutines to work.
-go build -compiler=gccgo \
-	-o "$DEST/$BINARY_FULLNAME" \
-	"${BUILDFLAGS[@]}" \
-	-gccgoflags "
-		-g
-		$EXTLDFLAGS_STATIC
-		-Wl,--no-export-dynamic
-		-ldl
-		-pthread
-	" \
-	./cmd/dockerd
-
-echo "Created binary: $DEST/$BINARY_FULLNAME"
-ln -sf "$BINARY_FULLNAME" "$DEST/dockerd$BINARY_EXTENSION"
-
-go build -compiler=gccgo \
-	-o "$DEST/$PROXY_FULLNAME" \
-	"${BUILDFLAGS[@]}" \
-	-gccgoflags "
-		-g
-		$EXTLDFLAGS_STATIC
-		-Wl,--no-export-dynamic
-		-ldl
-		-pthread
-	" \
-	./vendor/src/github.com/docker/libnetwork/cmd/proxy
-
-echo "Created binary: $DEST/$PROXY_FULLNAME"
-ln -sf "$PROXY_FULLNAME" "$DEST/docker-proxy$BINARY_EXTENSION"
-
-copy_containerd "$DEST" "hash"
-hash_files "$DEST/$BINARY_FULLNAME"
-
-go build -compiler=gccgo \
-	-o "$DEST/$CLIENTBIN_FULLNAME" \
-	"${BUILDFLAGS[@]}" \
-	-gccgoflags "
-		-g
-		$EXTLDFLAGS_STATIC
-		-Wl,--no-export-dynamic
-		-ldl
-		-pthread
-	" \
-	./cmd/docker
-
-echo "Created binary: $DEST/$CLIENTBIN_FULLNAME"
-ln -sf "$CLIENTBIN_FULLNAME" "$DEST/docker$BINARY_EXTENSION"
-hash_files "$DEST/$CLIENTBIN_FULLNAME"
-
diff --git a/hack/make/test-unit b/hack/make/test-unit
index 80c327ccba..24b79bd374 100644
--- a/hack/make/test-unit
+++ b/hack/make/test-unit
@@ -34,13 +34,7 @@ bundle_test_unit() {
 		| grep -v github.com/docker/docker/vendor \
 		| grep -v github.com/docker/docker/man \
 		| grep -v github.com/docker/docker/integration-cli)
-	go test $COVER $GCCGOFLAGS -ldflags "$LDFLAGS" "${BUILDFLAGS[@]}" $TESTFLAGS $pkg_list
+	go test -cover -ldflags "$LDFLAGS" "${BUILDFLAGS[@]}" $TESTFLAGS $pkg_list
 }
 
-
-if [[ "$(go version)" == *"gccgo"* ]]; then
-	GCCGOFLAGS=-gccgoflags="-lpthread"
-else
-	COVER=-cover
-fi
 bundle_test_unit 2>&1 | tee -a "$DEST/test.log"
diff --git a/integration-cli/docker_cli_events_unix_test.go b/integration-cli/docker_cli_events_unix_test.go
index 0f3ead3cd2..92832bb7cb 100644
--- a/integration-cli/docker_cli_events_unix_test.go
+++ b/integration-cli/docker_cli_events_unix_test.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsRedirectStdout(c *check.C) {
 }
 
 func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsOOMDisableFalse(c *check.C) {
-	testRequires(c, DaemonIsLinux, oomControl, memoryLimitSupport, NotGCCGO, swapMemorySupport)
+	testRequires(c, DaemonIsLinux, oomControl, memoryLimitSupport, swapMemorySupport)
 
 	errChan := make(chan error)
 	go func() {
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsOOMDisableFalse(c *check.C) {
 }
 
 func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsOOMDisableTrue(c *check.C) {
-	testRequires(c, DaemonIsLinux, oomControl, memoryLimitSupport, NotGCCGO, NotArm, swapMemorySupport)
+	testRequires(c, DaemonIsLinux, oomControl, memoryLimitSupport, NotArm, swapMemorySupport)
 
 	errChan := make(chan error)
 	observer, err := newEventObserver(c)
diff --git a/integration-cli/docker_cli_run_test.go b/integration-cli/docker_cli_run_test.go
index 8e659e551a..bdc6d620a9 100644
--- a/integration-cli/docker_cli_run_test.go
+++ b/integration-cli/docker_cli_run_test.go
@@ -3495,7 +3495,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestPtraceContainerProcsFromHost(c *check.C) {
 
 func (s *DockerSuite) TestAppArmorDeniesPtrace(c *check.C) {
 	// Not applicable on Windows as uses Unix specific functionality
-	testRequires(c, SameHostDaemon, Apparmor, DaemonIsLinux, NotGCCGO)
+	testRequires(c, SameHostDaemon, Apparmor, DaemonIsLinux)
 
 	// Run through 'sh' so we are NOT pid 1. Pid 1 may be able to trace
 	// itself, but pid>1 should not be able to trace pid1.
diff --git a/integration-cli/docker_cli_run_unix_test.go b/integration-cli/docker_cli_run_unix_test.go
index e7d4a20b15..53f44b87cf 100644
--- a/integration-cli/docker_cli_run_unix_test.go
+++ b/integration-cli/docker_cli_run_unix_test.go
@@ -611,8 +611,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestRunOOMExitCode(c *check.C) {
 	errChan := make(chan error)
 	go func() {
 		defer close(errChan)
-		//changing memory to 40MB from 4MB due to an issue with GCCGO that test fails to start the container.
-		out, exitCode, _ := dockerCmdWithError("run", "-m", "40MB", "busybox", "sh", "-c", "x=a; while true; do x=$x$x$x$x; done")
+		out, exitCode, _ := dockerCmdWithError("run", "-m", "4MB", "busybox", "sh", "-c", "x=a; while true; do x=$x$x$x$x; done")
 		if expected := 137; exitCode != expected {
 			errChan <- fmt.Errorf("wrong exit code for OOM container: expected %d, got %d (output: %q)", expected, exitCode, out)
 		}
diff --git a/integration-cli/requirements.go b/integration-cli/requirements.go
index a9fe468e47..51bc603154 100644
--- a/integration-cli/requirements.go
+++ b/integration-cli/requirements.go
@@ -153,16 +153,6 @@ var (
 		},
 		"Test requires support for IPv6",
 	}
-	NotGCCGO = testRequirement{
-		func() bool {
-			out, err := exec.Command("go", "version").Output()
-			if err == nil && strings.Contains(string(out), "gccgo") {
-				return false
-			}
-			return true
-		},
-		"Test requires native Golang compiler instead of GCCGO",
-	}
 	UserNamespaceInKernel = testRequirement{
 		func() bool {
 			if _, err := os.Stat("/proc/self/uid_map"); os.IsNotExist(err) {