diff --git a/cmake/legacy.cmake b/cmake/legacy.cmake
index 42f01c8b..5b41b28d 100644
--- a/cmake/legacy.cmake
+++ b/cmake/legacy.cmake
@@ -259,10 +259,11 @@ if(PACKAGE_SET STREQUAL full)
 
   list(APPEND packages pythia8)
   set(pythia8_version "8303")
+  string(SUBSTRING "${pythia8_version}" 0 2 pythia8_major_version)
   string(TOUPPER "${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" selected)
   ExternalProject_Add(pythia8
-    URL http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/pythia8/pythia${pythia8_version}.tgz
-    URL_HASH SHA256=cd7c2b102670dae74aa37053657b4f068396988ef7da58fd3c318c84dc37913e
+    URL https://pythia.org/download/pythia${pythia8_major_version}/pythia${pythia8_version}.tgz
+    URL_HASH SHA256=9093351829f92d81c60c719bfb007b1e89efb4307f4c8957407406bf3281a6f7
     BUILD_IN_SOURCE ON
     CONFIGURE_COMMAND ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Source/pythia8/configure
       "--with-hepmc2=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}"
diff --git a/legacy/README.md b/legacy/README.md
index 521c9c06..4fae7610 100644
--- a/legacy/README.md
+++ b/legacy/README.md
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ please contact us.
 | hepmc            | 2.06.09      | http://hepmc.web.cern.ch |
 | odc              | 0.10         | https://github.com/FairRootGroup/ODC |
 | pythia6          | 428-alice1   | https://github.com/alisw/pythia6 |
-| pythia8          | 8303         | http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/pythia8 |
+| pythia8          | 8303         | https://pythia.org/ |
 | root             | 6.20.08      | https://root.cern |
 | vc               | 1.4.1        | https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc |
 | vgm              | 4-8          | https://github.com/vmc-project/vgm |