diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/76069-fix-unarchive-file-listing-in-zip.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/76069-fix-unarchive-file-listing-in-zip.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31b91c4d98a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/76069-fix-unarchive-file-listing-in-zip.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- unarchive - Fix zip archive file listing that caused issues with content
+  postprocessing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76067).
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/unarchive.py b/lib/ansible/modules/unarchive.py
index 4867f8d79a5..d1ccd010667 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/unarchive.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/unarchive.py
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ class ZipArchive(object):
                         exclude_flag = False
                         if self.excludes:
                             for exclude in self.excludes:
-                                if not fnmatch.fnmatch(member, exclude):
+                                if fnmatch.fnmatch(member, exclude):
                                     exclude_flag = True
                                     break
                         if not exclude_flag:
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/test_exclude.yml b/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/test_exclude.yml
index bf9f14fb51e..8d3183c392d 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/test_exclude.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/test_exclude.yml
@@ -11,13 +11,28 @@
     src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/unarchive-00.{{item}}"
     dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/exclude-{{item}}"
     remote_src: yes
+    list_files: yes
     exclude:
       - "exclude/exclude-*.txt"
       - "other/exclude-1.ext"
+  register: result_of_unarchive
   with_items:
     - zip
     - tar
 
+- name: Make sure unarchive module reported back extracted files
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - "'include/include-1.txt' in item.files"
+      - "'include/include-2.txt' in item.files"
+      - "'include/include-3.txt' in item.files"
+      - "'other/include-1.ext' in item.files"
+      - "'other/include-2.ext' in item.files"
+      - "'other/exclude-2.ext' in item.files"
+      - "'other/other-1.ext' in item.files"
+      - "'other/other-2.ext' in item.files"
+  loop: "{{ result_of_unarchive.results }}"
+
 - name: verify that the file was unarchived
   shell: find {{ remote_tmp_dir }}/exclude-{{item}} chdir={{ remote_tmp_dir }}
   register: unarchive00