diff --git a/addons/sales_team/models/crm_team.py b/addons/sales_team/models/crm_team.py
index 5ac998b5ee8..abe395a48af 100644
--- a/addons/sales_team/models/crm_team.py
+++ b/addons/sales_team/models/crm_team.py
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ class CrmTeam(models.Model):
     member_warning = fields.Text('Membership Issue Warning', compute='_compute_member_warning')
     crm_team_member_ids = fields.One2many(
         'crm.team.member', 'crm_team_id', string='Sales Team Members',
+        context={'active_test': True},
         help="Add members to automatically assign their documents to this sales team.")
     crm_team_member_all_ids = fields.One2many(
         'crm.team.member', 'crm_team_id', string='Sales Team Members (incl. inactive)',
diff --git a/addons/sales_team/tests/test_sales_team_membership.py b/addons/sales_team/tests/test_sales_team_membership.py
index 9186c98e27e..17dc0694f09 100644
--- a/addons/sales_team/tests/test_sales_team_membership.py
+++ b/addons/sales_team/tests/test_sales_team_membership.py
@@ -275,6 +275,24 @@ class TestMembership(TestSalesCommon):
         with self.assertRaises(exceptions.UserError), mute_logger('odoo.sql_db'):
             added.write({'crm_team_id': sales_team_1.id})
 
+    def test_sales_team_member_search(self):
+        """ when a search is triggered on the member_ids field in crm.team
+        it is currently returning the archived records also. this test will
+        ensure that the search wont return archived record.
+
+        this is to fix unwanted ORM behavior
+        """
+        self.env['res.partner'].create({'name': 'Test Partner', 'team_id': self.new_team.id})
+        self.env['crm.team.member'].create({
+            'user_id': self.env.uid,
+            'crm_team_id': self.new_team.id,
+            'active': False,
+        })
+        partner_exists = self.env['res.partner'].search([
+            ('team_id.member_ids', 'in', [self.env.uid])
+        ])
+        self.assertFalse(partner_exists, msg="Partner should return empty as current user is removed from team")
+
     def test_users_sale_team_id(self):
         self.assertTrue(self.sales_team_1.sequence < self.new_team.sequence)