Our findings revealed that CPA4 is overexpressed in ccRCC, and the higher the expression of CPA4, the worse the clinical outcomes such as TNM stage, pathological stage, histological grade, etc. Moreover, patients with high CPA4 expression had worse overall survival, disease‐specific survival and progress‐free interval than patients with low expression. Here, CPA4 is linked to nonpapillary renal cell carcinoma.