diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4c456ad7b..b500d8e15 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Validator                               | Description
 **isMagnetURI(str)**                      | check if the string is a [magnet uri format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme).
 **isMD5(str)**                          | check if the string is a MD5 hash.<br/><br/>Please note that you can also use the `isHash(str, 'md5')` function. Keep in mind that MD5 has some collision weaknesses compared to other algorithms (e.g., SHA).
 **isMimeType(str)**                     | check if the string matches to a valid [MIME type](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_type) format
-**isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])**          | check if the string is a mobile phone number,<br/><br/>(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'cs-CZ', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'da-DK', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-MO', 'en-IE', 'en-IN',  'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'en-PK', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'kk-KZ', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'ne-NP', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-PT', 'pt-BR', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-MO', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).<br/><br/>`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
+**isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])**          | check if the string is a mobile phone number,<br/><br/>(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'cs-CZ', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'da-DK', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-MO', 'en-IE', 'en-IN',  'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-PK', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-SL', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'kk-KZ', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'ne-NP', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-PT', 'pt-BR', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-MO', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).<br/><br/>`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
 **isMongoId(str)**                      | check if the string is a valid hex-encoded representation of a [MongoDB ObjectId][mongoid].
 **isMultibyte(str)**                    | check if the string contains one or more multibyte chars.
 **isNumeric(str [, options])**                      | check if the string contains only numbers.<br/><br/>`options` is an object which defaults to `{no_symbols: false}`. If `no_symbols` is true, the validator will reject numeric strings that feature a symbol (e.g. `+`, `-`, or `.`).
diff --git a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
index a8fe5df0e..c455e5a1c 100644
--- a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
+++ b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ const phones = {
   'en-PK': /^((\+92)|(0092))-{0,1}\d{3}-{0,1}\d{7}$|^\d{11}$|^\d{4}-\d{7}$/,
   'en-RW': /^(\+?250|0)?[7]\d{8}$/,
   'en-SG': /^(\+65)?[89]\d{7}$/,
+  'en-SL': /^(?:0|94|\+94)?(7(0|1|2|5|6|7|8)( |-)?\d)\d{6}$/,
   'en-TZ': /^(\+?255|0)?[67]\d{8}$/,
   'en-UG': /^(\+?256|0)?[7]\d{8}$/,
   'en-US': /^((\+1|1)?( |-)?)?(\([2-9][0-9]{2}\)|[2-9][0-9]{2})( |-)?([2-9][0-9]{2}( |-)?[0-9]{4})$/,
diff --git a/test/validators.js b/test/validators.js
index 3eadcc072..2a76438a1 100644
--- a/test/validators.js
+++ b/test/validators.js
@@ -6265,6 +6265,25 @@ describe('Validators', () => {
           '+99676338855',
         ],
       },
+      {
+        locale: 'en-SL',
+        valid: [
+          '+94766661206',
+          '94713114340',
+          '0786642116',
+          '078 7642116',
+          '078-7642116',
+
+        ],
+        invalid: [
+          '9912349956789',
+          '12345',
+          '1678123456',
+          '0731234567',
+          '0749994567',
+          '0797878674',
+        ],
+      },
     ];
 
     let allValid = [];
@@ -6309,11 +6328,14 @@ describe('Validators', () => {
       valid: [
         '+254728530234',
         '+299 12 34 56',
+        '+94766660206',
       ],
       invalid: [
         '254728530234',
         '0728530234',
         '+728530234',
+        '766667206',
+        '0766670206',
       ],
       args: ['any', { strictMode: true }],
     });