diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index d7b251f404..a398db5fe8 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -2509,7 +2509,7 @@ In this example, we register the ``AdminSite`` instance
 Note that you may not want autodiscovery of ``admin`` modules when using your
 own ``AdminSite`` instance since you will likely be importing all the per-app
 ``admin`` modules in your ``myproject.admin`` module. This means you need to
-put ``'django.contrib.admin.app.SimpleAdminConfig'`` instead of
+put ``'django.contrib.admin.apps.SimpleAdminConfig'`` instead of
 ``'django.contrib.admin'`` in your :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` setting.