diff --git a/app/views/projects/project_members/_groups.html.haml b/app/views/projects/project_members/_groups.html.haml
index b5d397e3065d545162829579a9992ee7192abc01..00321014f911b6d7be4ac50f6d10028f617cf031 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/project_members/_groups.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/project_members/_groups.html.haml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .card.project-members-groups
   .card-header
-    = _("Groups with access to <strong>%{project_name}</strong>").html_safe % { project_name: sanitize_project_name(@project.name) }
+    = _("Groups with access to <strong>%{project_name}</strong>").html_safe % { project_name: sanitize(@project.name, tags: []) }
     %span.badge.badge-pill= group_links.size
   %ul.content-list.members-list
     = render partial: 'shared/members/group', collection: group_links, as: :group_link
diff --git a/app/views/projects/project_members/_team.html.haml b/app/views/projects/project_members/_team.html.haml
index e0dd386fc5d75a8123c808c2f33974ef13f6141d..f220299ec306fb47e01573af05dd179b08e11a90 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/project_members/_team.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/project_members/_team.html.haml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 .card
   .card-header.flex-project-members-panel
     %span.flex-project-title
-      = _("Members of <strong>%{project_name}</strong>").html_safe % { project_name: sanitize_project_name(project.name) }
+      = _("Members of <strong>%{project_name}</strong>").html_safe % { project_name: sanitize(project.name, tags: []) }
     %span.badge.badge-pill= members.total_count
     = form_tag project_project_members_path(project), method: :get, class: 'form-inline member-search-form flex-project-members-form' do
       .form-group
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/58751-fix-project-name-members-page.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/58751-fix-project-name-members-page.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a295afc5c48e31d894110fb10bdf490c99c8b2da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/58751-fix-project-name-members-page.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: "Fix unwanted character replacement on project members page caused by usage of sanitize function"
+merge_request: 25946
+author: Elias Werberich
+type: fixed