diff --git a/cmake/QtPublicPluginHelpers.cmake b/cmake/QtPublicPluginHelpers.cmake
index b0324585ac0..5a4777a0761 100644
--- a/cmake/QtPublicPluginHelpers.cmake
+++ b/cmake/QtPublicPluginHelpers.cmake
@@ -416,7 +416,24 @@ function(__qt_internal_collect_plugin_targets_from_dependencies_of_plugins targe
     set("${out_var}" "${plugin_targets}" PARENT_SCOPE)
 endfunction()
 
-function(__qt_internal_generate_plugin_deployment_info target plugin_targets)
+# Generate plugin information files for deployment
+#
+# Arguments:
+# OUT_PLUGIN_TARGETS - Variable name to store the plugin targets that were collected with
+#                      __qt_internal_collect_plugin_targets_from_dependencies.
+function(__qt_internal_generate_plugin_deployment_info target)
+    set(no_value_options "")
+    set(single_value_options "OUT_PLUGIN_TARGETS")
+    set(multi_value_options "")
+    cmake_parse_arguments(PARSE_ARGV 0 arg
+        "${no_value_options}" "${single_value_options}" "${multi_value_options}"
+    )
+
+    __qt_internal_collect_plugin_targets_from_dependencies("${target}" plugin_targets)
+    if(NOT "${arg_OUT_PLUGIN_TARGETS}" STREQUAL "")
+        set("${arg_OUT_PLUGIN_TARGETS}" "${plugin_targets}" PARENT_SCOPE)
+    endif()
+
     get_target_property(marked_for_deployment ${target} _qt_marked_for_deployment)
     if(NOT marked_for_deployment)
         return()
@@ -447,8 +464,8 @@ function(__qt_internal_apply_plugin_imports_finalizer_mode target)
         return()
     endif()
 
-    __qt_internal_collect_plugin_targets_from_dependencies("${target}" plugin_targets)
-    __qt_internal_generate_plugin_deployment_info(${target} "${plugin_targets}")
+    __qt_internal_generate_plugin_deployment_info(${target}
+        OUT_PLUGIN_TARGETS plugin_targets)
 
     # By default if the project hasn't explicitly opted in or out, use finalizer mode.
     # The precondition for this is that qt_finalize_target was called (either explicitly by the user
diff --git a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
index c1ea6fde58c..44f0a86aaa5 100644
--- a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
+++ b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
@@ -2910,6 +2910,13 @@ function(qt6_generate_deploy_script)
     # Mark the target as "to be deployed".
     set_property(TARGET ${arg_TARGET} PROPERTY _qt_marked_for_deployment ON)
 
+    # If the target already was finalized, maybe because it was defined in a subdirectory, generate
+    # the plugin deployment information here.
+    get_target_property(is_finalized "${arg_TARGET}" _qt_is_finalized)
+    if(is_finalized)
+        __qt_internal_generate_plugin_deployment_info(${arg_TARGET})
+    endif()
+
     # Create a file name that will be unique for this target and the combination
     # of arguments passed to this command. This allows the project to call us
     # multiple times with different arguments for the same target (e.g. to