diff --git a/webapp/src/blocks/boardView.test.ts b/webapp/src/blocks/boardView.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d8dfb4900
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/src/blocks/boardView.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2015-present Mattermost, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+// See LICENSE.txt for license information.
+
+import {MutableBoardView, sortBoardViewsAlphabetically} from './boardView'
+
+test('boardView: sort with ASCII', async () => {
+    const view1 = new MutableBoardView()
+    view1.title = 'Maybe'
+    const view2 = new MutableBoardView()
+    view2.title = 'Active'
+
+    const views = [view1, view2]
+    const sorted = sortBoardViewsAlphabetically(views)
+    expect(sorted).toEqual([view2, view1])
+})
+
+test('boardView: sort with leading emoji', async () => {
+    const view1 = new MutableBoardView()
+    view1.title = '🤔 Maybe'
+    const view2 = new MutableBoardView()
+    view2.title = '🚀 Active'
+
+    const views = [view1, view2]
+    const sorted = sortBoardViewsAlphabetically(views)
+    expect(sorted).toEqual([view2, view1])
+})
+
+test('boardView: sort with non-latin characters', async () => {
+    const view1 = new MutableBoardView()
+    view1.title = 'zebra'
+    const view2 = new MutableBoardView()
+    view2.title = 'ñu'
+
+    const views = [view1, view2]
+    const sorted = sortBoardViewsAlphabetically(views)
+    expect(sorted).toEqual([view2, view1])
+})
diff --git a/webapp/src/blocks/boardView.ts b/webapp/src/blocks/boardView.ts
index f98ed8b6e..46fc11c4d 100644
--- a/webapp/src/blocks/boardView.ts
+++ b/webapp/src/blocks/boardView.ts
@@ -111,4 +111,11 @@ class MutableBoardView extends MutableBlock implements BoardView {
     }
 }
 
-export {BoardView, MutableBoardView, IViewType, ISortOption}
+function sortBoardViewsAlphabetically(views: BoardView[]): BoardView[] {
+    // Strip leading emoji to prevent unintuitive results
+    return views.map((v) => {
+        return {view: v, title: v.title.replace(/^\p{Emoji}*\s*/u, '')}
+    }).sort((v1, v2) => v1.title.localeCompare(v2.title)).map((v) => v.view)
+}
+
+export {BoardView, MutableBoardView, IViewType, ISortOption, sortBoardViewsAlphabetically}
diff --git a/webapp/src/components/sidebar/sidebarBoardItem.tsx b/webapp/src/components/sidebar/sidebarBoardItem.tsx
index 3e2bf541b..2a7ee28b1 100644
--- a/webapp/src/components/sidebar/sidebarBoardItem.tsx
+++ b/webapp/src/components/sidebar/sidebarBoardItem.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import React, {useState} from 'react'
 import {FormattedMessage, injectIntl, IntlShape} from 'react-intl'
 
 import {Board} from '../../blocks/board'
-import {BoardView, IViewType} from '../../blocks/boardView'
+import {BoardView, IViewType, sortBoardViewsAlphabetically} from '../../blocks/boardView'
 import mutator from '../../mutator'
 import IconButton from '../../widgets/buttons/iconButton'
 import BoardIcon from '../../widgets/icons/board'
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ const SidebarBoardItem = React.memo((props: Props) => {
 
     const {board, intl, views} = props
     const displayTitle: string = board.title || intl.formatMessage({id: 'Sidebar.untitled-board', defaultMessage: '(Untitled Board)'})
-    const boardViews = views.filter((view) => view.parentId === board.id)
+    const boardViews = sortBoardViewsAlphabetically(views.filter((view) => view.parentId === board.id))
 
     return (
         <div className='SidebarBoardItem'>