diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 5222ab1e3e1cc2799115dd93d16e673281b28506..a93558fb10d60418c31a84ae062cc419132afdd7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
 v 8.0.0 (unreleased)
+  - Improve dropdown positioning on the project home page (Hannes Rosenögger)
   - Upgrade browser gem to 1.0.0 to avoid warning in IE11 compatibilty mode (Stan Hu)
   - Fix "Reload with full diff" URL button in compare branch view (Stan Hu)
   - Remove user OAuth tokens from the database and request new tokens each session (Stan Hu)
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/projects.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/projects.scss
index 1e138651d528db0483f5eab4ce17eea539d6cc54..33ebaae34ad1fbce6da73ee26eb021f7ec63f4c9 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/projects.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/projects.scss
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
     }
   }
 
+  .project-home-dropdown {
+    margin: 11px 3px 0;
+  }
+
   .project-home-desc {
     h1 {
       margin: 0;
diff --git a/app/views/projects/buttons/_dropdown.html.haml b/app/views/projects/buttons/_dropdown.html.haml
index cade930c8cc8da9004bd6756b60d1418922cc34d..bc7625e8989dc6bb52517ea7173862966f6e47a0 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/buttons/_dropdown.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/buttons/_dropdown.html.haml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   %span.dropdown
     %a.dropdown-toggle.btn.btn-new{href: '#', "data-toggle" => "dropdown"}
       = icon('plus')
-    %ul.dropdown-menu
+    %ul.dropdown-menu.dropdown-menu-right.project-home-dropdown
       - if can?(current_user, :create_issue, @project)
         %li
           = link_to url_for_new_issue do