diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 0490ae968c2..adf3f9bdc23 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ repos:
           - py>=1.8.2
           - attrs>=19.2.0
           - packaging
-          - types-toml
+          - tomli
           - types-pkg_resources
 -   repo: local
     hooks:
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 5c3610e699c..16a53d94bdf 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ Sven-Hendrik Haase
 Sylvain Marié
 Tadek Teleżyński
 Takafumi Arakaki
+Taneli Hukkinen
 Tanvi Mehta
 Tarcisio Fischer
 Tareq Alayan
diff --git a/changelog/8789.feature.rst b/changelog/8789.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..23215c97ef2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/8789.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Switch TOML parser from ``toml`` to ``tomli`` for TOML v1.0.0 support in ``pyproject.toml``.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 0e86f10e7f6..094dfed87fa 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ install_requires =
     packaging
     pluggy>=0.12,<1.0.0a1
     py>=1.8.2
-    toml
+    tomli>=1.0.0,<2.0.0
     atomicwrites>=1.0;sys_platform=="win32"
     colorama;sys_platform=="win32"
     importlib-metadata>=0.12;python_version<"3.8"
diff --git a/src/_pytest/config/findpaths.py b/src/_pytest/config/findpaths.py
index 7dde4b92d41..89ade5f23b9 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/config/findpaths.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/config/findpaths.py
@@ -64,9 +64,13 @@ def load_config_dict_from_file(
 
     # '.toml' files are considered if they contain a [tool.pytest.ini_options] table.
     elif filepath.suffix == ".toml":
-        import toml
+        import tomli
 
-        config = toml.load(str(filepath))
+        toml_text = filepath.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        try:
+            config = tomli.loads(toml_text)
+        except tomli.TOMLDecodeError as exc:
+            raise UsageError(str(exc)) from exc
 
         result = config.get("tool", {}).get("pytest", {}).get("ini_options", None)
         if result is not None:
diff --git a/testing/test_findpaths.py b/testing/test_findpaths.py
index af6aeb3a56d..3a2917261a2 100644
--- a/testing/test_findpaths.py
+++ b/testing/test_findpaths.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from textwrap import dedent
 
 import pytest
+from _pytest.config import UsageError
 from _pytest.config.findpaths import get_common_ancestor
 from _pytest.config.findpaths import get_dirs_from_args
 from _pytest.config.findpaths import load_config_dict_from_file
@@ -52,6 +53,13 @@ def test_unsupported_pytest_section_in_cfg_file(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
             load_config_dict_from_file(fn)
 
     def test_invalid_toml_file(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+        """Invalid .toml files should raise `UsageError`."""
+        fn = tmp_path / "myconfig.toml"
+        fn.write_text("]invalid toml[", encoding="utf-8")
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError):
+            load_config_dict_from_file(fn)
+
+    def test_custom_toml_file(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
         """.toml files without [tool.pytest.ini_options] are not considered for configuration."""
         fn = tmp_path / "myconfig.toml"
         fn.write_text(
@@ -77,6 +85,7 @@ def test_valid_toml_file(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
             y = 20.0
             values = ["tests", "integration"]
             name = "foo"
+            heterogeneous_array = [1, "str"]
             """
             ),
             encoding="utf-8",
@@ -86,6 +95,7 @@ def test_valid_toml_file(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
             "y": "20.0",
             "values": ["tests", "integration"],
             "name": "foo",
+            "heterogeneous_array": [1, "str"],
         }