diff --git a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/SparkSQLEnv.scala b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/SparkSQLEnv.scala
index 465457f1babfe993c2965206134599dadd3af7dd..a44b0d3e8ee04091da62e623d97d54b381a1b7cc 100644
--- a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/SparkSQLEnv.scala
+++ b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/SparkSQLEnv.scala
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
 
 import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
 import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
-import org.apache.spark.scheduler.StatsReportListener
 import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.{HiveContext, HiveUtils}
 import org.apache.spark.util.Utils
 
@@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ private[hive] object SparkSQLEnv extends Logging {
           maybeKryoReferenceTracking.getOrElse("false"))
 
       sparkContext = new SparkContext(sparkConf)
-      sparkContext.addSparkListener(new StatsReportListener())
       hiveContext = new HiveContext(sparkContext)
 
       hiveContext.sessionState.metadataHive.setOut(new PrintStream(System.out, true, "UTF-8"))