diff --git a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/metadata/resolve-route-data.test.ts b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/metadata/resolve-route-data.test.ts
index 7c0b22de50c71..82e686afd6707 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/metadata/resolve-route-data.test.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/metadata/resolve-route-data.test.ts
@@ -126,5 +126,32 @@ describe('resolveRouteData', () => {
         "
       `)
     })
+    it('should resolve sitemap.xml with images', () => {
+      expect(
+        resolveSitemap([
+          {
+            url: 'https://example.com',
+            lastModified: '2021-01-01',
+            changeFrequency: 'weekly',
+            priority: 0.5,
+            images: ['https://example.com/image.jpg'],
+          },
+        ])
+      ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+        <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
+        <url>
+        <loc>https://example.com</loc>
+        <image:image>
+        <image:loc>https://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
+        </image:image>
+        <lastmod>2021-01-01</lastmod>
+        <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
+        <priority>0.5</priority>
+        </url>
+        </urlset>
+        "
+      `)
+    })
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/metadata/resolve-route-data.ts b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/metadata/resolve-route-data.ts
index 368fdbaebbdb7..44668e3e2802d 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/metadata/resolve-route-data.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/metadata/resolve-route-data.ts
@@ -47,10 +47,16 @@ export function resolveSitemap(data: MetadataRoute.Sitemap): string {
   const hasAlternates = data.some(
     (item) => Object.keys(item.alternates ?? {}).length > 0
   )
+  const hasImages = data.some(
+    (item) => Object.keys(item.images ?? {}).length > 0
+  )
 
   let content = ''
   content += '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n'
   content += '<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"'
+  if (hasImages) {
+    content += ' xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"'
+  }
   if (hasAlternates) {
     content += ' xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">\n'
   } else {
@@ -70,6 +76,11 @@ export function resolveSitemap(data: MetadataRoute.Sitemap): string {
         }" />\n`
       }
     }
+    if (item.images?.length) {
+      for (const image of item.images) {
+        content += `<image:image>\n<image:loc>${image}</image:loc>\n</image:image>\n`
+      }
+    }
     if (item.lastModified) {
       const serializedDate =
         item.lastModified instanceof Date
diff --git a/packages/next/src/lib/metadata/types/metadata-interface.ts b/packages/next/src/lib/metadata/types/metadata-interface.ts
index ebc7e340daf5c..3fd67070a98ac 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/lib/metadata/types/metadata-interface.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/lib/metadata/types/metadata-interface.ts
@@ -607,6 +607,7 @@ type SitemapFile = Array<{
   alternates?: {
     languages?: Languages<string>
   }
+  images?: string[]
 }>
 
 type ResolvingMetadata = Promise<ResolvedMetadata>
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/metadata-dynamic-routes/app/sitemap-image/sitemap.ts b/test/e2e/app-dir/metadata-dynamic-routes/app/sitemap-image/sitemap.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..60c7f5c90258a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/metadata-dynamic-routes/app/sitemap-image/sitemap.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { MetadataRoute } from 'next'
+
+export default function sitemap(): MetadataRoute.Sitemap {
+  return [
+    {
+      url: 'https://example.com',
+      lastModified: '2024-01-01',
+      changeFrequency: 'daily',
+      priority: 0.5,
+    },
+    {
+      url: 'https://example.com/about',
+      lastModified: '2024-01-01',
+      images: ['https://example.com/image.jpg'],
+    },
+  ]
+}