diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d81e5fbd92..aea91cb51a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 - Fix number of arguments for pipelines_create within the command_create function ([#3074](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3074))
 - Update python:3.12-slim Docker digest to 740d94a ([#3079](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3079))
 - Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-mypy to v1.11.1 ([#3091](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3091))
+- Pipelines: allow numbers in custom pipeline name ([#3094](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3094))
 
 ## [v2.14.1 - Tantalum Toad - Patch](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/releases/tag/2.14.1) - [2024-05-09]
 
diff --git a/nf_core/pipelines/create/utils.py b/nf_core/pipelines/create/utils.py
index c15d61e266..c387960c39 100644
--- a/nf_core/pipelines/create/utils.py
+++ b/nf_core/pipelines/create/utils.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def name_nospecialchars(cls, v: str, info: ValidationInfo) -> str:
             if not re.match(r"^[a-z]+$", v):
                 raise ValueError("Must be lowercase without punctuation.")
         else:
-            if not re.match(r"^[a-zA-Z-_]+$", v):
+            if not re.match(r"^[-\w]+$", v):
                 raise ValueError("Must not contain special characters. Only '-' or '_' are allowed.")
         return v