The eisosome protein Pil1 is known to be implicated in the endocytosis of Ste3, but the precise biological function of it during endocytosis is poorly understood. Here, I present data to reveal Pil1's role in receptor-mediated endocytosis. Using live cell imaging, I show that endocytic patches carrying Abp1 and Las17 persisted much longer in PIL1-deficient cells (pil1Δ). The loss of Pil1 also greatly affected both the scission efficiency and the frequency of formation of endocytic sites carrying Rvs161- and Rvs167-GFP. Furthermore, the mistargeting of the synaptojanins, Sjl1 and Sjl2, to the cytoplasm in pil1Δ cells suggests that Pil1 is required for the proper recruitment of the synaptojanins to endocytic sites. A severe motility defect of Abp1-GFP during its internalization in a codeletant of PIL1 and SJL2 indicates a functional interplay between them in endocytosis. Together, these results establish that Pil1 is involved in the recruitment of endocytic proteins to optimize endocytosis.