Disable team-managed projects in Jira cloud

Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian apps on the cloud platform.

Summary

Learn how to stop new team-managed spaces from being created in Jira Cloud by removing a single global permission.

Solution

Remove "Create team-managed spaces" global permission

  1. Go to Settings > System.

  2. Select Global permissions under Security in the navigation sidebar.

  3. Scroll to the Create team-managed spaces global permission.

  4. Remove any unwanted groups or users from this permission.

Note: People with the Administer Jira global permission can always create team-managed spaces, even when all other access to the Create team-managed spaces permission is removed. Removing this permission does not delete existing team-managed spaces, it only prevents new ones from being created.

Feature request to remove this ability for Jira admins:

Updated on October 6, 2026

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