diff --git a/roles/openshift-apps/distgit-bugzilla-sync/templates/configuration.toml b/roles/openshift-apps/distgit-bugzilla-sync/templates/configuration.toml
index 51f28916b2..17bade9d60 100644
--- a/roles/openshift-apps/distgit-bugzilla-sync/templates/configuration.toml
+++ b/roles/openshift-apps/distgit-bugzilla-sync/templates/configuration.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
         namespace = "modules"
         versions = []
     [products."Fedora EPEL"]
-        branch_regex = '^epel\d+$'
+        branch_regex = '^(ep)?el\d+$'
         versions = ["epel8", "epel7", "el6"]
 
 [pdc_types]