diff --git a/libavformat/librtmp.c b/libavformat/librtmp.c
index 5b4c39dde5..f0b5929e6a 100644
--- a/libavformat/librtmp.c
+++ b/libavformat/librtmp.c
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ static int rtmp_open(URLContext *s, const char *uri, int flags)
 fail:
     if (filename != s->filename)
         av_freep(&filename);
+    if (rc)
+        RTMP_Close(r);
+
     return rc;
 }