diff --git a/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListener.java b/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListener.java
index 6e4f4603d9..ed8812783a 100644
--- a/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListener.java
+++ b/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListener.java
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ import org.springframework.test.context.support.AbstractTestExecutionListener;
  * support. For further details, consult the class-level Javadoc for
  * {@link org.springframework.context.event.EventListener @EventListener}.
  *
+ * <h3>Listener Registration</h3>
+ * <p>Note that this {@code TestExecutionListener} is not registered by default,
+ * but it may be registered for a given test class via
+ * {@link org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListeners @TestExecutionListeners}
+ * or globally via the {@link org.springframework.core.io.support.SpringFactoriesLoader
+ * SpringFactoriesLoader} mechanism (consult the Javadoc and Spring reference manual for
+ * details).
+ *
  * @author Frank Scheffler
  * @author Sam Brannen
  * @since 5.2
diff --git a/spring-test/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories b/spring-test/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories
index a9352201e9..30cd85a182 100644
--- a/spring-test/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories
+++ b/spring-test/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Default TestExecutionListeners for the Spring TestContext Framework
 #
 org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListener = \
-	org.springframework.test.context.event.EventPublishingTestExecutionListener,\
 	org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener,\
 	org.springframework.test.context.support.DirtiesContextBeforeModesTestExecutionListener,\
 	org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener,\
diff --git a/spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListenerIntegrationTests.java b/spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListenerIntegrationTests.java
index 687e99be51..0b49bfbbac 100644
--- a/spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListenerIntegrationTests.java
+++ b/spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListenerIntegrationTests.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestContext;
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager;
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListener;
+import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListeners;
 import org.springframework.test.context.event.annotation.AfterTestClass;
 import org.springframework.test.context.event.annotation.AfterTestExecution;
 import org.springframework.test.context.event.annotation.AfterTestMethod;
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ public class EventPublishingTestExecutionListenerIntegrationTests {
 
 	@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
 	@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestEventListenerConfiguration.class)
+	@TestExecutionListeners(EventPublishingTestExecutionListener.class)
 	public static class ExampleTestCase {
 
 		@Traceable
diff --git a/src/docs/asciidoc/testing.adoc b/src/docs/asciidoc/testing.adoc
index d9d4f7e28d..bf4c220fc7 100644
--- a/src/docs/asciidoc/testing.adoc
+++ b/src/docs/asciidoc/testing.adoc
@@ -1659,7 +1659,8 @@ subclasses instead.
 ==== `TestExecutionListener` Configuration
 
 Spring provides the following `TestExecutionListener` implementations that are registered
-by default, exactly in the following order:
+exactly in the following order. Except for the `EventPublishingTestExecutionListener`,
+each of these listeners is registered by default.
 
 * `EventPublishingTestExecutionListener`: Publishes test execution events to the test's
   `ApplicationContext` (see <<testcontext-test-execution-events>>).
@@ -1785,10 +1786,11 @@ be replaced with the following:
 ==== Test Execution Events
 
 The `EventPublishingTestExecutionListener` introduced in Spring Framework 5.2 offers an
-alternative approach to implementing a custom `TestExecutionListener`. Components in the
-test `ApplicationContext` can listen to the following events published by the
-`EventPublishingTestExecutionListener`, each of which corresponds to a method in the
-`TestExecutionListener` API.
+alternative approach to implementing a custom `TestExecutionListener`. If the
+`EventPublishingTestExecutionListener` is <<testcontext-tel-config-registering-tels,
+registered>>, components in the `ApplicationContext` can listen to the following events
+published by the `EventPublishingTestExecutionListener`. Each of these events corresponds
+to a method in the `TestExecutionListener` API.
 
 * `BeforeTestClassEvent`
 * `PrepareTestInstanceEvent`