diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2f7204d37d..34276b0321 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ Another big release with lots of new features and bug fixes. Thanks to all contr
 
 - Fix lint warnings for `samplesheet_check.nf` module ([#1875](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1875)).
 - Check that the workflow name provided with a template doesn't contain dashes ([#1822](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1822))
-- Remove `CITATION.cff` file from pipeline template, to avoid that pipeline Zenodo entries reference the nf-core publication instead of the pipeline ([#2059](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2059)).
+- Remove `CITATION.cff` file from pipeline template, to avoid that pipeline Zenodo entries reference the nf-core publication instead of the pipeline ([#2059](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2059)).- Add initial CHM13 support ([1988](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/issues/1988))
+- Add initial CHM13 support ([1988](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/issues/1988))
 
 ### Linting
 
diff --git a/nf_core/pipeline-template/conf/igenomes.config b/nf_core/pipeline-template/conf/igenomes.config
index 7a1b3ac6d3..3f11437759 100644
--- a/nf_core/pipeline-template/conf/igenomes.config
+++ b/nf_core/pipeline-template/conf/igenomes.config
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ params {
             macs_gsize  = "2.7e9"
             blacklist   = "${projectDir}/assets/blacklists/hg38-blacklist.bed"
         }
+        'CHM13' {
+            fasta       = "${params.igenomes_base}/Homo_sapiens/UCSC/CHM13/Sequence/WholeGenomeFasta/genome.fa"
+            bwa         = "${params.igenomes_base}/Homo_sapiens/UCSC/CHM13/Sequence/BWAIndex/"
+            bwamem2     = "${params.igenomes_base}/Homo_sapiens/UCSC/CHM13/Sequence/BWAmem2Index/"
+            gtf         = "${params.igenomes_base}/Homo_sapiens/NCBI/CHM13/Annotation/Genes/genes.gtf"
+            gff         = "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCF/009/914/755/GCF_009914755.1_T2T-CHM13v2.0/GCF_009914755.1_T2T-CHM13v2.0_genomic.gff.gz"
+            mito_name   = "chrM"
+        }
         'GRCm38' {
             fasta       = "${params.igenomes_base}/Mus_musculus/Ensembl/GRCm38/Sequence/WholeGenomeFasta/genome.fa"
             bwa         = "${params.igenomes_base}/Mus_musculus/Ensembl/GRCm38/Sequence/BWAIndex/version0.6.0/"