diff --git a/dev/archery/archery/crossbow/core.py b/dev/archery/archery/crossbow/core.py
index 75b489f048d50..7f5d1442ffc81 100644
--- a/dev/archery/archery/crossbow/core.py
+++ b/dev/archery/archery/crossbow/core.py
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ def get_version(root, **kwargs):
 
     # query the calculated version based on the git tags
     kwargs['describe_command'] = (
-        'git describe --dirty --tags --long --match "apache-arrow-[0-9].*"'
+        'git describe --dirty --tags --long --match "apache-arrow-[0-9]*.*"'
     )
     version = parse_git_version(root, **kwargs)
     tag = str(version.tag)
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
index a030a53e37c95..19d630bc0abf4 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/__init__.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def parse_git(root, **kwargs):
             """
             from setuptools_scm.git import parse
             kwargs['describe_command'] = \
-                "git describe --dirty --tags --long --match 'apache-arrow-[0-9].*'"
+                "git describe --dirty --tags --long --match 'apache-arrow-[0-9]*.*'"
             return parse(root, **kwargs)
         __version__ = setuptools_scm.get_version('../',
                                                  parse=parse_git)
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index 9fd7c480088b2..32106d6ab1495 100755
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ def parse_git(root, **kwargs):
     """
     from setuptools_scm.git import parse
     kwargs['describe_command'] =\
-        'git describe --dirty --tags --long --match "apache-arrow-[0-9].*"'
+        'git describe --dirty --tags --long --match "apache-arrow-[0-9]*.*"'
     return parse(root, **kwargs)