diff --git a/ibis/backends/clickhouse/__init__.py b/ibis/backends/clickhouse/__init__.py
index 9668f47ca49f6..61b832c573518 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/clickhouse/__init__.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/clickhouse/__init__.py
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
 from contextlib import closing
 from functools import partial
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Literal
+from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlparse
 
 import clickhouse_connect as cc
 import pyarrow as pa
 import pyarrow_hotfix  # noqa: F401
-import sqlalchemy as sa
 import sqlglot as sg
 import sqlglot.expressions as sge
 import toolz
@@ -74,21 +74,28 @@ def _from_url(self, url: str, **kwargs) -> BaseBackend:
         BaseBackend
             A backend instance
         """
-        url = sa.engine.make_url(url)
-
-        kwargs = toolz.merge(
-            {
-                name: value
-                for name in ("host", "port", "database", "password")
-                if (value := getattr(url, name, None))
-            },
-            kwargs,
-        )
-        if username := url.username:
-            kwargs["user"] = username
-
-        kwargs.update(url.query)
+        url = urlparse(url)
+        database = url.path[1:]
+        query_params = parse_qs(url.query)
+
+        connect_args = {
+            "user": url.username,
+            "password": url.password or "",
+            "host": url.hostname,
+            "database": database or "",
+        }
+
+        for name, value in query_params.items():
+            if len(value) > 1:
+                connect_args[name] = value
+            elif len(value) == 1:
+                connect_args[name] = value[0]
+            else:
+                raise com.IbisError(f"Invalid URL parameter: {name}")
+
+        kwargs.update(connect_args)
         self._convert_kwargs(kwargs)
+
         return self.connect(**kwargs)
 
     def _convert_kwargs(self, kwargs):
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 6bd5602e3e9f9..c7d6156f35101 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -7339,7 +7339,7 @@ cffi = ["cffi (>=1.11)"]
 [extras]
 all = ["black", "clickhouse-connect", "dask", "datafusion", "db-dtypes", "deltalake", "duckdb", "duckdb-engine", "geoalchemy2", "geopandas", "google-cloud-bigquery", "google-cloud-bigquery-storage", "graphviz", "impyla", "oracledb", "packaging", "polars", "psycopg2", "pydata-google-auth", "pydruid", "pymysql", "pyodbc", "pyspark", "regex", "shapely", "snowflake-connector-python", "snowflake-sqlalchemy", "sqlalchemy", "sqlalchemy-exasol", "sqlalchemy-views", "trino"]
 bigquery = ["db-dtypes", "google-cloud-bigquery", "google-cloud-bigquery-storage", "pydata-google-auth"]
-clickhouse = ["clickhouse-connect", "sqlalchemy"]
+clickhouse = ["clickhouse-connect"]
 dask = ["dask", "regex"]
 datafusion = ["datafusion"]
 decompiler = ["black"]
@@ -7365,4 +7365,4 @@ visualization = ["graphviz"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "8b4afe7ece6da2cf9019d474c571ad0a5674e62fd8386030e0f341d9f3e84ba0"
+content-hash = "aa13be46cebb9a2a8c865fae6a65b1a30836c912d9efb6b9e3b07b91f7b6fec1"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d8091510b90fa..8beb3c5abd62a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ bigquery = [
   "google-cloud-bigquery-storage",
   "pydata-google-auth",
 ]
-clickhouse = ["clickhouse-connect", "sqlalchemy"]
+clickhouse = ["clickhouse-connect"]
 dask = ["dask", "regex"]
 datafusion = ["datafusion"]
 druid = ["pydruid", "sqlalchemy"]