diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
index 59a601d9e85b08dd40b1b0e14c728620ad0b0024..80fb9e5cd2a445f07d7d7cf7f9c3b912ac545d14 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
@@ -668,6 +668,24 @@ def test_attributes_bad_port(self):
                         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
                             p.port
 
+    def test_attributes_bad_scheme(self):
+        """Check handling of invalid schemes."""
+        for bytes in (False, True):
+            for parse in (urllib.parse.urlsplit, urllib.parse.urlparse):
+                for scheme in (".", "+", "-", "0", "http&", "६http"):
+                    with self.subTest(bytes=bytes, parse=parse, scheme=scheme):
+                        url = scheme + "://www.example.net"
+                        if bytes:
+                            if url.isascii():
+                                url = url.encode("ascii")
+                            else:
+                                continue
+                        p = parse(url)
+                        if bytes:
+                            self.assertEqual(p.scheme, b"")
+                        else:
+                            self.assertEqual(p.scheme, "")
+
     def test_attributes_without_netloc(self):
         # This example is straight from RFC 3261.  It looks like it
         # should allow the username, hostname, and port to be filled
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/parse.py b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
index 9a3102afd63b9cc910d9250f0482aca501cfc23e..4f6867accbc0eb14513fb4b2341ae143f350e223 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/parse.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ def urlsplit(url, scheme='', allow_fragments=True):
     allow_fragments = bool(allow_fragments)
     netloc = query = fragment = ''
     i = url.find(':')
-    if i > 0:
+    if i > 0 and url[0].isascii() and url[0].isalpha():
         for c in url[:i]:
             if c not in scheme_chars:
                 break
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-12-15-45-51.gh-issue-99418.FxfAXS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-12-15-45-51.gh-issue-99418.FxfAXS.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a06e7c5c6ac482353b09eae0dedfe1668ac4e48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-12-15-45-51.gh-issue-99418.FxfAXS.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix bug in :func:`urllib.parse.urlparse` that causes URL schemes that begin
+with a digit, a plus sign, or a minus sign to be parsed incorrectly.