diff --git a/airflow/configuration.py b/airflow/configuration.py
index 9e80648c74ec0..33376285be483 100644
--- a/airflow/configuration.py
+++ b/airflow/configuration.py
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ class AirflowConfigParser(ConfigParser):
         'celery': {
             # Remove these keys in Airflow 1.11
             'worker_concurrency': 'celeryd_concurrency',
+            'result_backend': 'celery_result_backend',
             'broker_url': 'celery_broker_url',
             'ssl_active': 'celery_ssl_active',
             'ssl_cert': 'celery_ssl_cert',