diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index eb854a09c33..1753a736162 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   (michal dot taborsky at gmail dot com, Ilia)
 - Fixed bug #39215 (Inappropriate close of stdin/stdout/stderr). (Wez,Ilia)
 - Fixed bug #39151 (Parse error in recursiveiteratoriterator.php). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #39121 (Incorrect return array handling in non-wsdl soap client).
+  (Dmitry)
 - Fixed bug #39090 (DirectoryFilterDots doxygen docs and example is wrong).
   (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #38698 (for some keys cdbmake creates corrupted db and cdb can't 
diff --git a/ext/soap/php_packet_soap.c b/ext/soap/php_packet_soap.c
index 9ed55d2b1d7..b103ae8139a 100644
--- a/ext/soap/php_packet_soap.c
+++ b/ext/soap/php_packet_soap.c
@@ -350,10 +350,22 @@ int parse_packet_soap(zval *this_ptr, char *buffer, int buffer_size, sdlFunction
 				if (val != NULL) {
 					if (!node_is_equal_ex(val,"result",RPC_SOAP12_NAMESPACE)) {
 						zval *tmp;
+						zval **arr;
 
 						tmp = master_to_zval(NULL, val);
 						if (val->name) {
-							add_assoc_zval(return_value, (char*)val->name, tmp);
+							if (zend_hash_find(Z_ARRVAL_P(return_value), (char*)val->name, strlen((char*)val->name)+1, (void**)&arr) == SUCCESS) {
+								add_next_index_zval(*arr, tmp);
+							} else if (val->next && get_node(val->next, (char*)val->name)) {
+								zval *arr;
+
+								MAKE_STD_ZVAL(arr);
+								array_init(arr);
+								add_next_index_zval(arr, tmp);
+								add_assoc_zval(return_value, (char*)val->name, arr);
+							} else {
+								add_assoc_zval(return_value, (char*)val->name, tmp);
+							}
 						} else {
 							add_next_index_zval(return_value, tmp);
 						}
diff --git a/ext/soap/tests/bugs/bug39121.phpt b/ext/soap/tests/bugs/bug39121.phpt
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..5b3ccbc7649
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/soap/tests/bugs/bug39121.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+--TEST--
+Bug #39121 (Incorrect return array handling in non-wsdl soap client)
+--SKIPIF--
+<?php require_once('skipif.inc'); ?>
+--INI--
+soap.wsdl_cache_enabled=0
+--FILE--
+<?php
+class LocalSoapClient extends SoapClient {
+  function __doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version) {
+    return <<<EOF
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
+        <soap:Body>
+                <getDIDAreaResponse xmlns="http://didx.org/GetList">
+                        <soapenc:Array soapenc:arrayType="xsd:string[2]" xsi:type="soapenc:Array">
+                                <item xsi:type="xsd:string">StateCode</item>
+                                <item xsi:type="xsd:string">description</item>
+                        </soapenc:Array>
+                        <soapenc:Array soapenc:arrayType="xsd:anyType[2]" xsi:type="soapenc:Array">
+                                <item xsi:type="xsd:int">241</item>
+                                <item xsi:type="xsd:string">Carabobo</item>
+                        </soapenc:Array>
+                        <soapenc:Array soapenc:arrayType="xsd:anyType[2]" xsi:type="soapenc:Array">
+                                <item xsi:type="xsd:int">243</item>
+                                <item xsi:type="xsd:string">Aragua and Carabobo</item>
+                        </soapenc:Array>
+                        <soapenc:Array soapenc:arrayType="xsd:anyType[2]" xsi:type="soapenc:Array">
+                                <item xsi:type="xsd:int">261</item>
+                                <item xsi:type="xsd:string">Zulia</item>
+                        </soapenc:Array>
+                </getDIDAreaResponse>
+        </soap:Body>
+</soap:Envelope>
+EOF;
+  }
+}
+
+$client = new LocalSoapClient(NULL, array('location'=>'test://','uri'=>'test://'));
+print_r($client->getDIDAreaResponse());
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+Array
+(
+    [Array] => Array
+        (
+            [0] => Array
+                (
+                    [0] => StateCode
+                    [1] => description
+                )
+
+            [1] => Array
+                (
+                    [0] => 241
+                    [1] => Carabobo
+                )
+
+            [2] => Array
+                (
+                    [0] => 243
+                    [1] => Aragua and Carabobo
+                )
+
+            [3] => Array
+                (
+                    [0] => 261
+                    [1] => Zulia
+                )
+
+        )
+
+)