diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a5bb7f5546df8..eda351ce951d3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Fixed dataloaders not getting reloaded the correct amount of times when setting `reload_dataloaders_every_n_epochs` and `check_val_every_n_epoch` ([#10948](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/10948))
 
 
+- Fixed data fetcher selection ([#11294](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11294))
+
+
 ## [1.5.7] - 2021-12-21
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/data_connector.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/data_connector.py
index 8f286964940d2..73d19a2e28a1e 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/data_connector.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/connectors/data_connector.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def _select_data_fetcher(self) -> AbstractDataFetcher:
 
     def get_profiled_dataloader(self, dataloader: Iterable, dataloader_idx: int = 0) -> Iterable:
         stage: str = self.trainer.state.stage.value
-        data_fetcher = setattr(self, f"{stage}_data_fetcher", None) or self._select_data_fetcher()
+        data_fetcher = getattr(self, f"{stage}_data_fetcher", None) or self._select_data_fetcher()
         data_fetcher.setup(
             dataloader,
             stage=stage,