diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index f842105371c..a444952d7a7 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 * SOLR-11560: Specifying the replicationFactor parameter while restoring a collection would lead to extra tlog
   and pull replicas being created (Peter Szantai-Kis, Varun Thacker)
 
+* SOLR-11586: Restored collection should use stateFormat=2 instead of 1. (Varun Thacker)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 * SOLR-11285: Refactor autoscaling framework to avoid direct references to Zookeeper and Solr
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/RestoreCmd.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/RestoreCmd.java
index 900ca6413a1..a1990b441e5 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/RestoreCmd.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/RestoreCmd.java
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ import java.util.Set;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.cloud.DistributedQueue;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.cloud.autoscaling.PolicyHelper;
 import org.apache.solr.cloud.overseer.OverseerAction;
-import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ReplicaPosition;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException.ErrorCode;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ClusterState;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.DocCollection;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ImplicitDocRouter;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.Replica;
+import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ReplicaPosition;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.Slice;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkNodeProps;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader;
@@ -65,18 +65,19 @@ import static org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.CREATE_NODE
 import static org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.NUM_SLICES;
 import static org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.RANDOM;
 import static org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.SHARDS_PROP;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.DocCollection.STATE_FORMAT;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.COLLECTION_PROP;
-import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.SHARD_ID_PROP;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.MAX_SHARDS_PER_NODE;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.NRT_REPLICAS;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.PULL_REPLICAS;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.REPLICATION_FACTOR;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.REPLICA_TYPE;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.SHARD_ID_PROP;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.TLOG_REPLICAS;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.params.CollectionParams.CollectionAction.CREATE;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.params.CollectionParams.CollectionAction.CREATESHARD;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonAdminParams.ASYNC;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonParams.NAME;
-import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.REPLICATION_FACTOR;
-import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.NRT_REPLICAS;
-import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.PULL_REPLICAS;
-import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.TLOG_REPLICAS;
-import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.MAX_SHARDS_PER_NODE;
 
 public class RestoreCmd implements OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.Cmd {
   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
@@ -153,6 +154,9 @@ public class RestoreCmd implements OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.Cmd {
       Map<String, Object> propMap = new HashMap<>();
       propMap.put(Overseer.QUEUE_OPERATION, CREATE.toString());
       propMap.put("fromApi", "true"); // mostly true.  Prevents autoCreated=true in the collection state.
+      if (properties.get(STATE_FORMAT) == null) {
+        propMap.put(STATE_FORMAT, "2");
+      }
 
       // inherit settings from input API, defaulting to the backup's setting.  Ex: replicationFactor
       for (String collProp : COLL_PROPS.keySet()) {
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractCloudBackupRestoreTestCase.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractCloudBackupRestoreTestCase.java
index 93c9c161cd5..a90783adc5e 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractCloudBackupRestoreTestCase.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractCloudBackupRestoreTestCase.java
@@ -323,6 +323,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractCloudBackupRestoreTestCase extends SolrCloudTestCa
     assertEquals("Different count of TlogReplica. Backup collection state=" + backupCollection + "\nRestore" +
         " collection state=" + restoreCollection, numTlogReplicas, restoreCollection.getNumTlogReplicas().intValue());
 
+    assertEquals("Restore collection should use stateFormat=2", 2, restoreCollection.getStateFormat());
+
 
     // assert added core properties:
     // DWS: did via manual inspection.