diff --git a/about.pl b/about.pl
index e95dbc146e..dacd39db2d 100755
--- a/about.pl
+++ b/about.pl
@@ -531,7 +531,10 @@ if ( defined C4::Context->config('docdir') ) {
 }
 
 ## Release teams
-my $teams = LoadFile("$docdir"."/teams.yaml");
+my $teams =
+  -e "$docdir" . "/teams.yaml"
+  ? LoadFile( "$docdir" . "/teams.yaml" )
+  : {};
 my $dev_team = (sort {$b <=> $a} (keys %{$teams->{team}}))[0];
 my $short_version = substr($versions{'kohaVersion'},0,5);
 my $minor = substr($versions{'kohaVersion'},3,2);
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt
index eae4a805d1..60ce4ac21d 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/about.tt
@@ -405,21 +405,27 @@
             </ul>
 
             <h2>Koha release teams</h2>
-            <div class="row">
-                <div class="col-md-6">
-                    <h3>Koha [% short_version | html %] release team</h3>
-                    [% IF development_version %]
-                        <p>You are running a development version of Koha</p>
-                    [% ELSE %]
-                        [% INCLUDE team t=release_team v='release' %]
-                    [% END %]
-                </div>
+            [% IF maintenance_team %]
+                <div class="row">
+                    <div class="col-md-6">
+                        <h3>Koha [% short_version | html %] release team</h3>
+                        [% IF development_version %]
+                            <p>You are running a development version of Koha</p>
+                        [% ELSE %]
+                            [% INCLUDE team t=release_team v='release' %]
+                        [% END %]
+                    </div>
 
-                <div class="col-md-6">
-                    <h3>Current maintenance team</h3>
-                    [% INCLUDE team t=maintenance_team v=short_version %]
+                    <div class="col-md-6">
+                        <h3>Current maintenance team</h3>
+                        [% INCLUDE team t=maintenance_team v=short_version %]
+                    </div>
                 </div>
-            </div>
+            [% ELSE %]
+                <div class="dialog alert">
+                    Could not read the teams.yaml file. Please make sure &lt;docdir&gt; is correctly defined in koha-conf.xml.
+                </div>
+            [% END %]
 
             <h2>Koha development team</h2>
             [% IF contributors.size %]