diff --git a/components/com_contact/src/View/Category/HtmlView.php b/components/com_contact/src/View/Category/HtmlView.php
index 2ab162e8fcc1e..a179b37101f02 100644
--- a/components/com_contact/src/View/Category/HtmlView.php
+++ b/components/com_contact/src/View/Category/HtmlView.php
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 use Joomla\CMS\Mail\MailHelper;
 use Joomla\CMS\MVC\View\CategoryView;
 use Joomla\Component\Contact\Site\Helper\RouteHelper;
+use Joomla\Registry\Registry;
 
 // phpcs:disable PSR1.Files.SideEffects
 \defined('_JEXEC') or die;
@@ -97,6 +98,16 @@ protected function prepareDocument()
     {
         parent::prepareDocument();
 
+        if (!\is_object($this->category->metadata)) {
+            $this->category->metadata = new Registry($this->category->metadata);
+        }
+
+        foreach ($this->category->metadata->toArray() as $k => $v) {
+            if ($v) {
+                $this->getDocument()->setMetaData($k, $v);
+            }
+        }
+
         $this->addFeed();
 
         if ($this->menuItemMatchCategory) {
diff --git a/tests/System/integration/site/components/com_contact/Category.cy.js b/tests/System/integration/site/components/com_contact/Category.cy.js
index 5e8914b00440d..e5ced239e6b42 100644
--- a/tests/System/integration/site/components/com_contact/Category.cy.js
+++ b/tests/System/integration/site/components/com_contact/Category.cy.js
@@ -43,4 +43,15 @@ describe('Test in frontend that the contact category view', () => {
         cy.get('#adminForm').should('exist');
       });
   });
+
+  it('applies the robots metadata of the category to the category page', () => {
+    cy.db_createContact({ name: 'automated test contact 1' })
+      .then((contact) => cy.task('queryDB', `UPDATE #__categories SET metadata = '{"robots":"noindex, follow"}' WHERE id = ${contact.catid}`)
+        .then(() => {
+          cy.visit(`/index.php?option=com_contact&view=category&id=${contact.catid}`);
+
+          cy.get('head meta[name="robots"]').should('have.attr', 'content', 'noindex, follow');
+        })
+        .then(() => cy.task('queryDB', `UPDATE #__categories SET metadata = '' WHERE id = ${contact.catid}`)));
+  });
 });