diff --git a/src/.docker_modules/multiqc/1.9/Dockerfile b/src/.docker_modules/multiqc/1.9/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e82ccb436f841876ef71c73f4e6a611454bd7f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/.docker_modules/multiqc/1.9/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+FROM debian:stretch
+MAINTAINER Laurent Modolo
+
+ENV MULTIQC_VERSION=1.9
+ENV PACKAGES build-essential \
+             python3-pip \
+             python3-setuptools \
+             python3-dev \
+             python3-wheel \
+             procps \
+             locales
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ${PACKAGES} && \
+    apt-get clean
+
+RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
+ENV LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
+ENV LANG=en_US.utf-8
+ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+ENV LANG=C.UTF-8
+
+
+RUN pip3 install multiqc==${MULTIQC_VERSION}
+
diff --git a/src/.docker_modules/multiqc/1.9/docker_init.sh b/src/.docker_modules/multiqc/1.9/docker_init.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dcb2897242cb084d9bc851e2274c21aca99f00c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/.docker_modules/multiqc/1.9/docker_init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+docker pull lbmc/multiqc:1.9
+docker build src/.docker_modules/multiqc/1.9 -t 'lbmc/multiqc:1.9'
+docker push lbmc/multiqc:1.9
diff --git a/src/nf_modules/multiqc/main.nf b/src/nf_modules/multiqc/main.nf
index 3486523912595e63662fc0de6560586af11613c3..64cecaace1fbce77b5fecd99f47e253b33ded071 100644
--- a/src/nf_modules/multiqc/main.nf
+++ b/src/nf_modules/multiqc/main.nf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version = "1.7"
+version = "1.9"
 container_url = "lbmc/multiqc:${version}"
 
 process multiqc {