diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/45122-fix-unarchive-excluded_files.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/45122-fix-unarchive-excluded_files.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6b55bf0a21d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/45122-fix-unarchive-excluded_files.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- "Fixed: Make sure that the files excluded when extracting the archive are not checked. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45122"
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/files/unarchive.py b/lib/ansible/modules/files/unarchive.py
index 8a0bea88494..2e512d1ec76 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/files/unarchive.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/files/unarchive.py
@@ -264,11 +264,13 @@ class ZipArchive(object):
         else:
             try:
                 for member in archive.namelist():
+                    exclude_flag = False
                     if self.excludes:
                         for exclude in self.excludes:
-                            if not fnmatch.fnmatch(member, exclude):
-                                self._files_in_archive.append(to_native(member))
-                    else:
+                            if fnmatch.fnmatch(member, exclude):
+                                exclude_flag = True
+                                break
+                    if not exclude_flag:
                         self._files_in_archive.append(to_native(member))
             except:
                 archive.close()
@@ -664,11 +666,14 @@ class TgzArchive(object):
             if filename.startswith('/'):
                 filename = filename[1:]
 
+            exclude_flag = False
             if self.excludes:
                 for exclude in self.excludes:
-                    if not fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, exclude):
-                        self._files_in_archive.append(to_native(filename))
-            else:
+                    if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, exclude):
+                        exclude_flag = True
+                        break
+
+            if not exclude_flag:
                 self._files_in_archive.append(to_native(filename))
 
         return self._files_in_archive
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/main.yml
index 12cfcf10af9..2d050f66a3d 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/main.yml
@@ -225,11 +225,13 @@
     - zip
     - tar
 
-- name: Unpack archive file excluding glob files.
+- name: Unpack archive file excluding regular and glob files.
   unarchive:
     src: "{{ output_dir }}/unarchive-00.{{item}}"
     dest: "{{ output_dir }}/exclude-{{item}}"
-    exclude: "exclude/exclude-*.txt"
+    exclude: 
+      - "exclude/exclude-*.txt"
+      - "other/exclude-1.ext"
   with_items:
     - zip
     - tar
@@ -245,6 +247,7 @@
   assert:
     that:
       - "'exclude/exclude-1.txt' not in item.stdout"
+      - "'other/exclude-1.ext' not in item.stdout"
   with_items:
     - "{{ unarchive00.results }}"