diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1914-add-sanitization-to-url.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1914-add-sanitization-to-url.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3b41bcb7af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/1914-add-sanitization-to-url.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - proxmox inventory - added handling of extra trailing slashes in the URL (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1914).
diff --git a/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py b/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
index ead09b41b0..428e58a703 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
         self._read_config_data(path)
 
         # get connection host
-        self.proxmox_url = self.get_option('url')
+        self.proxmox_url = self.get_option('url').rstrip('/')
         self.proxmox_user = self.get_option('user')
         self.proxmox_password = self.get_option('password')
         self.cache_key = self.get_cache_key(path)