diff --git a/.github/workflows/phpunit-memcached.yml b/.github/workflows/phpunit-memcached.yml
index 96729c1e8dd58..d65c94a6ff414 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/phpunit-memcached.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/phpunit-memcached.yml
@@ -56,19 +56,18 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        php-versions: ['8.3', '8.4', '8.5']
+        php-versions: ["8.2"]
         include:
-          - php-versions: '8.2'
+          - php-versions: "8.5"
             coverage: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
 
     name: Memcached (PHP ${{ matrix.php-versions }})
 
     services:
       memcached:
-        image: ghcr.io/nextcloud/continuous-integration-redis:latest # zizmor: ignore[unpinned-images]
+        image: ghcr.io/nextcloud/continuous-integration-memcached:latest # zizmor: ignore[unpinned-images]
         ports:
           - 11212:11212/tcp
-          - 11212:11212/udp
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout server
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           php-version: ${{ matrix.php-versions }}
           # https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html#prerequisites-for-manual-installation
-          extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, memcached, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
+          extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, memcached, openssl, pcntl, pdo_sqlite, posix, session, simplexml, sqlite, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
           ini-values: disable_functions=""
@@ -96,12 +95,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Nextcloud
         run: |
           mkdir data
+          cp tests/memcached.config.php config/
           cp tests/preseed-config.php config/config.php
           ./occ maintenance:install --verbose --database=sqlite --database-name=nextcloud --database-user=root --database-pass=rootpassword --admin-user admin --admin-pass admin
           php -f tests/enable_all.php
 
       - name: PHPUnit memcached tests
-        run: composer run test -- --group Memcache --group Memcached --log-junit junit.xml ${{ matrix.coverage && '--coverage-clover ./clover.xml' || '' }}
+        run: composer run test -- --group Memcached --log-junit junit.xml ${{ matrix.coverage && '--coverage-clover ./clover.xml' || '' }}
 
       - name: Upload code coverage
         if: ${{ !cancelled() && matrix.coverage }}
diff --git a/tests/memcached.config.php b/tests/memcached.config.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6e269db5da404
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/memcached.config.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+/**
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Nextcloud GmbH and Nextcloud contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+$CONFIG = [
+	'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Memcached',
+	'memcache.distributed' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Memcached',
+	'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Memcached',
+	'memcached_servers' => [
+		['localhost', 11211],
+	],
+];