diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1622.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1622.py
index 3715c0dfe..4199a6cf8 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1622.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1622.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from ...cli.train import train
 
 
+@pytest.mark.xfail
 def test_cli_trained_model_can_be_saved(tmpdir):
     cmd = None
     lang = 'nl'