diff --git a/databases/Makefile b/databases/Makefile
index 2b4937624a6c..6a50ba4c6c6f 100644
--- a/databases/Makefile
+++ b/databases/Makefile
@@ -645,6 +645,7 @@
     SUBDIR += py-MySQLdb41
     SUBDIR += py-MySQLdb50
     SUBDIR += py-MySQLdb51
+    SUBDIR += py-MySQLdb55
     SUBDIR += py-PyGreSQL
     SUBDIR += py-bsddb
     SUBDIR += py-bsddb3
diff --git a/databases/py-MySQLdb55/Makefile b/databases/py-MySQLdb55/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aafaff58ec86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/py-MySQLdb55/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# New ports collection makefile for:	py-MySQLdb55
+# Date created:				2010-11-8
+# Whom:					Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com>
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PKGNAMESUFFIX=	55
+
+COMMENT=	Access a MySQL database through Python (Using MySQL 5.5 Client)
+
+CONFLICTS=	py*-MySQLdb-devel-[0-9]* py*-MySQLdb-[0-9]* py*-MySQLdb[45][0-9]-[0-9]*
+
+WANT_MYSQL_VER=	55
+
+MASTERDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../py-MySQLdb
+
+.include "${MASTERDIR}/Makefile"