diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 63175f224b7..ce6d55a61c8 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ Other Changes
 * SOLR-5264: Move methods for getting config information from
              FieldMutatingUpdateProcessorFactory to NamedList. (Shawn Heisey)
 
+* SOLR-5319: Remove unused and incorrect router name from Collection ZK nodes.
+  (Jessica Cheng via shalin)
+
 ==================  4.5.0 ==================
 
 Versions of Major Components
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ZkController.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ZkController.java
index 12942100b8b..4b05167ee3a 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ZkController.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ZkController.java
@@ -1160,18 +1160,6 @@ public final class ZkController {
             getConfName(collection, collectionPath, collectionProps);
           }
 
-          if (collectionProps.get(DocCollection.DOC_ROUTER) == null) {
-            Object numShards = collectionProps.get(ZkStateReader.NUM_SHARDS_PROP);
-            if (numShards == null) {
-              numShards = System.getProperty(ZkStateReader.NUM_SHARDS_PROP);
-            }
-            if (numShards == null) {
-              collectionProps.put(DocCollection.DOC_ROUTER, ZkNodeProps.makeMap("name",ImplicitDocRouter.NAME));
-            } else {
-              collectionProps.put(DocCollection.DOC_ROUTER, ZkNodeProps.makeMap("name", DocRouter.DEFAULT_NAME));
-            }
-          }
-
           collectionProps.remove(ZkStateReader.NUM_SHARDS_PROP);  // we don't put numShards in the collections properties
 
           ZkNodeProps zkProps = new ZkNodeProps(collectionProps);