diff --git a/crates/polars-io/src/parquet/read/read_impl.rs b/crates/polars-io/src/parquet/read/read_impl.rs
index c621b698cebc..15be3f2a8e09 100644
--- a/crates/polars-io/src/parquet/read/read_impl.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-io/src/parquet/read/read_impl.rs
@@ -266,11 +266,21 @@ fn rg_to_dfs_prefiltered(
     let num_live_columns = live_variables.len();
     let num_dead_columns = projection.len() - num_live_columns;
 
+    // @NOTE: This is probably already sorted, but just to be sure.
+    let mut projection_sorted = projection.to_vec();
+    projection_sorted.sort();
+
     // We create two look-up tables that map indexes offsets into the live- and dead-set onto
     // column indexes of the schema.
     let mut live_idx_to_col_idx = Vec::with_capacity(num_live_columns);
     let mut dead_idx_to_col_idx = Vec::with_capacity(num_dead_columns);
+    let mut offset = 0;
     for (i, field) in schema.iter_values().enumerate() {
+        if projection_sorted.get(offset).copied() != Some(i) {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        offset += 1;
         if live_variables.contains(&field.name[..]) {
             live_idx_to_col_idx.push(i);
         } else {
diff --git a/py-polars/tests/unit/io/test_parquet.py b/py-polars/tests/unit/io/test_parquet.py
index 170cc2a015be..e035a44686f0 100644
--- a/py-polars/tests/unit/io/test_parquet.py
+++ b/py-polars/tests/unit/io/test_parquet.py
@@ -1904,3 +1904,16 @@ def test_write_binary_open_file(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
 
     out = pl.read_parquet(path)
     assert_frame_equal(out, df)
+
+
+def test_prefilter_with_projection() -> None:
+    f = io.BytesIO()
+    pl.DataFrame({"a": [1], "b": [2]}).write_parquet(f)
+
+    f.seek(0)
+    (
+        pl.scan_parquet(f, parallel="prefiltered")
+        .filter(pl.col.a == 1)
+        .select(pl.col.a)
+        .collect()
+    )