diff --git a/docs/release_notes.adoc b/docs/release_notes.adoc
index 45652ce7d0..c2708d81ff 100644
--- a/docs/release_notes.adoc
+++ b/docs/release_notes.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ include::include.adoc[]
 
 == 2.4 (tbd)
 
+* Support for setting execution order (a.k.a. run order) in `SpecInfo`, can be used by extensions
+
 == 2.4-M1 (2022-11-30)
 
 * Fix issues with Spring 6/Spring Boot 3 spockPull:1541[]
diff --git a/spock-core/src/main/java/org/spockframework/runtime/SpockEngineDiscoveryPostProcessor.java b/spock-core/src/main/java/org/spockframework/runtime/SpockEngineDiscoveryPostProcessor.java
index 6c900e1704..d01d4e29cc 100644
--- a/spock-core/src/main/java/org/spockframework/runtime/SpockEngineDiscoveryPostProcessor.java
+++ b/spock-core/src/main/java/org/spockframework/runtime/SpockEngineDiscoveryPostProcessor.java
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 import org.junit.platform.engine.*;
 
+import static java.util.Comparator.comparingInt;
+
 class SpockEngineDiscoveryPostProcessor {
 
   private static final Object[] EMPTY_ARGS = new Object[0];
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ SpockEngineDescriptor postProcessEngineDescriptor(UniqueId uniqueId, RunContext
     SpockEngineDescriptor processedEngineDescriptor = new SpockEngineDescriptor(uniqueId, runContext);
     engineDescriptor.getChildren().stream()
       .map(child -> processSpecNode(child, runContext))
+      .sorted(comparingInt(child -> child instanceof SpecNode ? ((SpecNode) child).getNodeInfo().getExecutionOrder() : 0))
       .forEach(processedEngineDescriptor::addChild);
     return processedEngineDescriptor;
   }
diff --git a/spock-core/src/main/java/org/spockframework/runtime/model/SpecInfo.java b/spock-core/src/main/java/org/spockframework/runtime/model/SpecInfo.java
index 287528214b..22da3adee0 100644
--- a/spock-core/src/main/java/org/spockframework/runtime/model/SpecInfo.java
+++ b/spock-core/src/main/java/org/spockframework/runtime/model/SpecInfo.java
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ public class SpecInfo extends SpecElementInfo<NodeInfo, Class<?>> implements IMe
   private ExecutionMode executionMode = null;
   private ExecutionMode childExecutionMode = null;
 
+  private int executionOrder;
+
   private String pkg;
   private String filename;
   private String narrative;
@@ -66,6 +68,14 @@ public class SpecInfo extends SpecElementInfo<NodeInfo, Class<?>> implements IMe
 
   private final List<FeatureInfo> features = new ArrayList<>();
 
+  public int getExecutionOrder() {
+    return executionOrder;
+  }
+
+  public void setExecutionOrder(int executionOrder) {
+    this.executionOrder = executionOrder;
+  }
+
   public String getPackage() {
     return pkg;
   }