diff --git a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
index e000733e7159..cfd785f47ebc 100644
--- a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
+++ b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
@@ -133,11 +133,10 @@ def __post_init__(self):
 
     def to_dict(self):
         env = COMMON_ENV_VARIABLES.copy()
-        if self.job_name != "tests_hub":
-            # fmt: off
-            # not critical
-            env.update({"HF_TOKEN": "".join(["h", "f", "_", "H", "o", "d", "V", "u", "M", "q", "b", "R", "m", "t", "b", "z", "F", "Q", "O", "Q", "A", "J", "G", "D", "l", "V", "Q", "r", "R", "N", "w", "D", "M", "V", "C", "s", "d"])})
-            # fmt: on
+        # fmt: off
+        # not critical
+        env.update({"HF_TOKEN": "".join(["h", "f", "_", "H", "o", "d", "V", "u", "M", "q", "b", "R", "m", "t", "b", "z", "F", "Q", "O", "Q", "A", "J", "G", "D", "l", "V", "Q", "r", "R", "N", "w", "D", "M", "V", "C", "s", "d"])})
+        # fmt: on
 
         # Do not run tests decorated by @is_flaky on pull requests
         env['RUN_FLAKY'] = os.environ.get("CIRCLE_PULL_REQUEST", "") == ""
@@ -284,20 +283,6 @@ def job_name(self):
     pytest_num_workers=4,
 )
 
-hub_job = CircleCIJob(
-    "hub",
-    additional_env={"HUGGINGFACE_CO_STAGING": True},
-    docker_image=[{"image":"huggingface/transformers-torch-light"}],
-    install_steps=[
-        'uv pip install .',
-        'git config --global user.email "ci@dummy.com"',
-        'git config --global user.name "ci"',
-    ],
-    marker="is_staging_test",
-    pytest_num_workers=2,
-    resource_class="medium",
-)
-
 exotic_models_job = CircleCIJob(
     "exotic_models",
     docker_image=[{"image":"huggingface/transformers-exotic-models"}],
@@ -364,7 +349,7 @@ def job_name(self):
     pytest_num_workers=1,
 )
 
-REGULAR_TESTS = [torch_job, hub_job, tokenization_job, processor_job, generate_job, non_model_job] # fmt: skip
+REGULAR_TESTS = [torch_job, tokenization_job, processor_job, generate_job, non_model_job] # fmt: skip
 EXAMPLES_TESTS = [examples_torch_job]
 PIPELINE_TESTS = [pipelines_torch_job]
 REPO_UTIL_TESTS = [repo_utils_job]
diff --git a/tests/repo_utils/test_tests_fetcher.py b/tests/repo_utils/test_tests_fetcher.py
index d8d074ba2f4d..22e14dcbb9fe 100644
--- a/tests/repo_utils/test_tests_fetcher.py
+++ b/tests/repo_utils/test_tests_fetcher.py
@@ -284,6 +284,13 @@ def test_create_test_list_from_filter_routes_repo_utils_tests(self):
                 "tests/repo_utils/test_tests_fetcher.py",
             ]
 
+    def test_create_test_list_from_filter_does_not_create_hub_job(self):
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_folder:
+            create_test_list_from_filter(["tests/models/bert/test_modeling_bert.py"], out_path=tmp_folder)
+
+            assert (Path(tmp_folder) / "tests_torch_test_list.txt").exists()
+            assert not (Path(tmp_folder) / "tests_hub_test_list.txt").exists()
+
     def test_infer_tests_to_run_adds_repo_utils_for_utils_changes(self):
         with ExitStack() as stack:
             stack.enter_context(patch.object(tests_fetcher, "commit_flags", {"test_all": False}, create=True))
diff --git a/utils/tests_fetcher.py b/utils/tests_fetcher.py
index 6e7b723d8f92..a138ef2eaacb 100644
--- a/utils/tests_fetcher.py
+++ b/utils/tests_fetcher.py
@@ -1096,7 +1096,6 @@ def parse_commit_message(commit_message: str) -> dict[str, bool]:
     "tests_custom_tokenizers": r"tests/models/.*/test_tokenization_(?=bert_japanese|openai|clip).*",
     "tests_repo_utils": r"tests/repo_utils/test_.*\.py",
     "pipelines_torch": r"tests/models/.*/test_modeling_.*",
-    "tests_hub": r"tests/.*",
     "tests_non_model": r"tests/[^/]*?/test_.*\.py",
     "tests_training_ci": r"tests/models/.*/test_modeling_.*",
     "tests_tensor_parallel_ci": r"(tests/models/.*/test_modeling_.*|tests/tensor_parallel(?:/test_tensor_parallel\.py)?)",
@@ -1111,21 +1110,13 @@ def create_test_list_from_filter(full_test_list, out_path):
     to_output = []
     for job_name, _filter in JOB_TO_TEST_FILE.items():
         file_name = os.path.join(out_path, f"{job_name}_test_list.txt")
-        if job_name == "tests_hub":
-            files_to_test = ["tests"]
-        else:
-            files_to_test = list(re.findall(_filter, all_test_files))
+        files_to_test = list(re.findall(_filter, all_test_files))
 
         print(job_name, file_name, len(files_to_test))
 
         if len(files_to_test) > 0:  # No tests -> no file with test list
             to_output.append((job_name, file_name, files_to_test))
 
-    # Only get `tests_hub`, which means we have 0 test file for all other jobs --> No job at all to run.
-    if len(to_output) == 1:
-        print("No test file found for any job, skipping `tests_hub` as well.")
-        to_output = []
-
     for _, file_name, files_to_test in to_output:
         with open(file_name, "w") as f:
             f.write("\n".join(files_to_test))