diff --git a/providers/cncf/kubernetes/src/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/executors/kubernetes_executor.py b/providers/cncf/kubernetes/src/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/executors/kubernetes_executor.py
index 130d37b546c3e..33a023c359fdd 100644
--- a/providers/cncf/kubernetes/src/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/executors/kubernetes_executor.py
+++ b/providers/cncf/kubernetes/src/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/executors/kubernetes_executor.py
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.task_publish_max_retries = conf.getint(
             "kubernetes_executor", "task_publish_max_retries", fallback=0
         )
+        self.completed: set[KubernetesResults] = set()
         super().__init__(parallelism=self.kube_config.parallelism)
 
     def _list_pods(self, query_kwargs):
@@ -343,6 +344,9 @@ def sync(self) -> None:
                 finally:
                     self.result_queue.task_done()
 
+                for result in self.completed:
+                    self._change_state(result)
+
         from airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.executors.kubernetes_executor_utils import ResourceVersion
 
         resource_instance = ResourceVersion()
@@ -720,7 +724,16 @@ def _adopt_completed_pods(self, kube_client: client.CoreV1Api) -> None:
                 continue
 
             ti_id = annotations_to_key(pod.metadata.annotations)
-            self.running.add(ti_id)
+            self.completed.add(
+                KubernetesResults(
+                    key=ti_id,
+                    state="completed",
+                    pod_name=pod.metadata.name,
+                    namespace=pod.metadata.namespace,
+                    resource_version=pod.metadata.resource_version,
+                    failure_details=None,
+                )
+            )
 
     def _flush_task_queue(self) -> None:
         if TYPE_CHECKING:
diff --git a/providers/cncf/kubernetes/tests/unit/cncf/kubernetes/executors/test_kubernetes_executor.py b/providers/cncf/kubernetes/tests/unit/cncf/kubernetes/executors/test_kubernetes_executor.py
index 7fb6f790d8792..d076fef3baeff 100644
--- a/providers/cncf/kubernetes/tests/unit/cncf/kubernetes/executors/test_kubernetes_executor.py
+++ b/providers/cncf/kubernetes/tests/unit/cncf/kubernetes/executors/test_kubernetes_executor.py
@@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ def get_annotations(pod_name):
             ],
             any_order=True,
         )
-        assert executor.running == expected_running_ti_keys
+        assert {k8s_res.key for k8s_res in executor.completed} == expected_running_ti_keys
 
     @mock.patch("airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.executors.kubernetes_executor.DynamicClient")
     @mock.patch("airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.kube_client.get_kube_client")