diff --git a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
index 9a5a2cadd2..067a2c88e4 100644
--- a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
+++ b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@
 		<li>[Fix] Ability to set permissions on non-mysql dbms (Bug #24955)</li>
 		<li>[Fix] Fixed blank style on setups having no username defined within config.php (Bug #25065)</li>
 		<li>[Fix] Made the compress_tar class tolerate archives that do not properly have their archived contents listed (Bug #14429 / thanks to JRSweets for his patch)</li>
+		<li>[Fix] Moved topics should not count towards the number of topics in a forum (Bug #14648 / thanks to Schumi for his patch)</li>
 	</ul>
 
 	<a name="v300"></a><h3>1.ii. Changes since 3.0.0</h3>
diff --git a/phpBB/includes/functions_admin.php b/phpBB/includes/functions_admin.php
index afaf165d66..6a4b6008bd 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/functions_admin.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/functions_admin.php
@@ -1545,7 +1545,8 @@ function sync($mode, $where_type = '', $where_ids = '', $resync_parents = false,
 					$sql = 'SELECT SUM(t.topic_replies + 1) AS forum_posts
 						FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . ' t
 						WHERE ' . $db->sql_in_set('t.forum_id', $forum_ids) . '
-							AND t.topic_approved = 1';
+							AND t.topic_approved = 1
+							AND t.topic_status <> ' . ITEM_MOVED;
 				}
 				else
 				{
@@ -1553,6 +1554,7 @@ function sync($mode, $where_type = '', $where_ids = '', $resync_parents = false,
 						FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . ' t
 						WHERE ' . $db->sql_in_set('t.forum_id', $forum_ids) . '
 							AND t.topic_approved = 1
+							AND t.topic_status <> ' . ITEM_MOVED .'
 						GROUP BY t.forum_id';
 				}