diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/spring-cloud-openfeign.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/spring-cloud-openfeign.adoc
index 7181a6e6f..8b25fdfb1 100644
--- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/spring-cloud-openfeign.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/spring-cloud-openfeign.adoc
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ The OkHttpClient, Apache HttpClient 5 and Http2Client Feign clients can be used
 You can customize the HTTP client used by providing a bean of either `org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient` when using Apache HC5.
 
 You can further customise http clients by setting values in the `spring.cloud.openfeign.httpclient.xxx` properties. The ones prefixed just with `httpclient` will work for all the clients, the ones prefixed with `httpclient.hc5` to Apache HttpClient 5, the ones prefixed with `httpclient.okhttp` to OkHttpClient and the ones prefixed with `httpclient.http2` to Http2Client. You can find a full list of properties you can customise in the appendix.
+If you can not configure Apache HttpClient 5 by using properties, there is an `HttpClientBuilderCustomizer` interface for programmatic configuration.
 
 TIP: Starting with Spring Cloud OpenFeign 4, the Feign Apache HttpClient 4 is no longer supported. We suggest using Apache HttpClient 5 instead.
 
diff --git a/spring-cloud-openfeign-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/openfeign/clientconfig/HttpClient5FeignConfiguration.java b/spring-cloud-openfeign-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/openfeign/clientconfig/HttpClient5FeignConfiguration.java
index 36ff6b1d1..56338aef8 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-openfeign-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/openfeign/clientconfig/HttpClient5FeignConfiguration.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-openfeign-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/openfeign/clientconfig/HttpClient5FeignConfiguration.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2013-2022 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2013-2023 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
 import java.security.SecureRandom;
 import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.RequestConfig;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClients;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.io.HttpClientConnectionManager;
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@
 import org.apache.hc.core5.util.TimeValue;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.util.Timeout;
 
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectProvider;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnMissingBean;
 import org.springframework.cloud.openfeign.support.FeignHttpClientProperties;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
@@ -56,6 +59,7 @@
  *
  * @author Nguyen Ky Thanh
  * @author changjin wei(魏昌进)
+ * @author Kwangyong Kim
  */
 @Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
 @ConditionalOnMissingBean(CloseableHttpClient.class)
@@ -85,18 +89,23 @@ public HttpClientConnectionManager hc5ConnectionManager(FeignHttpClientPropertie
 
 	@Bean
 	public CloseableHttpClient httpClient5(HttpClientConnectionManager connectionManager,
-			FeignHttpClientProperties httpClientProperties) {
-		httpClient5 = HttpClients.custom().disableCookieManagement().useSystemProperties()
-				.setConnectionManager(connectionManager).evictExpiredConnections()
-				.setDefaultRequestConfig(RequestConfig.custom()
-						.setConnectTimeout(
-								Timeout.of(httpClientProperties.getConnectionTimeout(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS))
-						.setRedirectsEnabled(httpClientProperties.isFollowRedirects())
-						.setConnectionRequestTimeout(
-								Timeout.of(httpClientProperties.getHc5().getConnectionRequestTimeout(),
-										httpClientProperties.getHc5().getConnectionRequestTimeoutUnit()))
-						.build())
-				.build();
+			FeignHttpClientProperties httpClientProperties,
+			ObjectProvider<List<HttpClientBuilderCustomizer>> customizerProvider) {
+		HttpClientBuilder httpClientBuilder = HttpClients.custom().disableCookieManagement().useSystemProperties()
+			.setConnectionManager(connectionManager).evictExpiredConnections()
+			.setDefaultRequestConfig(RequestConfig.custom()
+				.setConnectTimeout(
+					Timeout.of(httpClientProperties.getConnectionTimeout(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS))
+				.setRedirectsEnabled(httpClientProperties.isFollowRedirects())
+				.setConnectionRequestTimeout(
+					Timeout.of(httpClientProperties.getHc5().getConnectionRequestTimeout(),
+						httpClientProperties.getHc5().getConnectionRequestTimeoutUnit()))
+				.build());
+
+		customizerProvider.getIfAvailable(List::of)
+			.forEach(c -> c.customize(httpClientBuilder));
+
+		httpClient5 = httpClientBuilder.build();
 		return httpClient5;
 	}
 
@@ -146,4 +155,19 @@ public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
 
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Callback interface that customize {@link HttpClientBuilder} objects before HttpClient created.
+	 *
+	 * @author Kwangyong Kim
+	 * @since 4.1.0
+	 */
+	public interface HttpClientBuilderCustomizer {
+
+		/**
+		 * Customize HttpClientBuilder.
+		 * @param builder the {@code HttpClientBuilder} to customize
+		 */
+		void customize(HttpClientBuilder builder);
+
+	}
 }
diff --git a/spring-cloud-openfeign-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/openfeign/FeignHttpClient5ConfigurationTests.java b/spring-cloud-openfeign-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/openfeign/FeignHttpClient5ConfigurationTests.java
index 937a03e18..982a0a218 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-openfeign-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/openfeign/FeignHttpClient5ConfigurationTests.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-openfeign-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/openfeign/FeignHttpClient5ConfigurationTests.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2013-2022 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2013-2023 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -19,21 +19,29 @@
 import feign.Client;
 import feign.hc5.ApacheHttp5Client;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.io.HttpClientConnectionManager;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
 
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException;
 import org.springframework.boot.WebApplicationType;
 import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
+import org.springframework.cloud.openfeign.clientconfig.HttpClient5FeignConfiguration.HttpClientBuilderCustomizer;
 import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatExceptionOfType;
+import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
 
 /**
  * @author Nguyen Ky Thanh
  * @author Olga Maciaszek-Sharma
+ * @author Kwangyong Kim
  */
 class FeignHttpClient5ConfigurationTests {
 
@@ -72,4 +80,28 @@ void shouldNotInstantiateHttpClient5ByWhenDependenciesPresentButPropertyDisabled
 		}
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	void shouldInstantiateHttpClient5ByUsingHttpClientBuilderCustomizer() {
+		ConfigurableApplicationContext context = new SpringApplicationBuilder()
+			.web(WebApplicationType.NONE)
+			.sources(FeignAutoConfiguration.class, Config.class)
+			.run();
+
+		CloseableHttpClient httpClient = context.getBean(CloseableHttpClient.class);
+		assertThat(httpClient).isNotNull();
+		HttpClientBuilderCustomizer customizer = context.getBean(HttpClientBuilderCustomizer.class);
+		verify(customizer).customize(any(HttpClientBuilder.class));
+
+		if (context != null) {
+			context.close();
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Configuration
+	static class Config {
+		@Bean
+		HttpClientBuilderCustomizer customizer() {
+			return Mockito.mock(HttpClientBuilderCustomizer.class);
+		}
+	}
 }