diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/81628_galaxy_verify.yml b/changelogs/fragments/81628_galaxy_verify.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4aa76d1a43b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/81628_galaxy_verify.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- galaxy - skip verification for unwanted Python compiled bytecode files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81628).
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py
index 24707b1e731..7553b8bcb1b 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py
@@ -333,11 +333,18 @@ def verify_local_collection(local_collection, remote_collection, artifacts_manag
                 os.path.join(b_collection_path, to_bytes(name, errors='surrogate_or_strict'))
             )
 
+    b_ignore_patterns = [
+        b'*.pyc',
+    ]
+
     # Find any paths not in the FILES.json
     for root, dirs, files in os.walk(b_collection_path):
         for name in files:
             full_path = os.path.join(root, name)
             path = to_text(full_path[len(b_collection_path) + 1::], errors='surrogate_or_strict')
+            if any(fnmatch.fnmatch(full_path, b_pattern) for b_pattern in b_ignore_patterns):
+                display.v("Ignoring verification for %s" % full_path)
+                continue
 
             if full_path not in collection_files:
                 modified_content.append(
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/ansible-galaxy-collection/tasks/verify.yml b/test/integration/targets/ansible-galaxy-collection/tasks/verify.yml
index 0fe2f82d16f..2ad9c832172 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/ansible-galaxy-collection/tasks/verify.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/ansible-galaxy-collection/tasks/verify.yml
@@ -270,6 +270,16 @@
     path: '{{ galaxy_dir }}/ansible_collections/ansible_test/verify/plugins/modules/test_new_dir'
     state: directory
 
+- name: create a new ignore directory
+  file:
+    path: '{{ galaxy_dir }}/ansible_collections/ansible_test/verify/plugins/modules/__pycache__'
+    state: directory
+
+- name: create a new ignore file
+  file:
+    path: '{{ galaxy_dir }}/ansible_collections/ansible_test/verify/plugins/modules/__pycache__/test.cpython-311.pyc'
+    state: touch
+
 - name: verify modified collection locally-only (should fail)
   command: ansible-galaxy collection verify --offline ansible_test.verify
   register: verify
@@ -282,6 +292,7 @@
       - "'plugins/modules/test_module.py' in verify.stdout"
       - "'plugins/modules/test_new_file.py' in verify.stdout"
       - "'plugins/modules/test_new_dir' in verify.stdout"
+      - "'plugins/modules/__pycache__/test.cpython-311.pyc' not in verify.stdout"
 
 # TODO: add a test for offline Galaxy signature metadata