diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/9084-collection_version-importlib.yml b/changelogs/fragments/9084-collection_version-importlib.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..827b9653d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/9084-collection_version-importlib.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "collection_version lookup plugin - use ``importlib`` directly instead of the deprecated and in ansible-core 2.19 removed ``ansible.module_utils.compat.importlib`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9084)."
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/collection_version.py b/plugins/lookup/collection_version.py
index 33316fc2b0..0f93c03c26 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/collection_version.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/collection_version.py
@@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ RETURN = """
 import json
 import os
 import re
+from importlib import import_module
 
 import yaml
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleLookupError
-from ansible.module_utils.compat.importlib import import_module
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase