diff --git a/packages/next/src/client/components/app-router.tsx b/packages/next/src/client/components/app-router.tsx
index 2c3c541e02b8e..a8de967825e16 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/client/components/app-router.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/src/client/components/app-router.tsx
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ import {
   ACTION_RESTORE,
   ACTION_SERVER_ACTION,
   ACTION_SERVER_PATCH,
+  Mutable,
   PrefetchKind,
   ReducerActions,
   RouterChangeByServerResponse,
   RouterNavigate,
   ServerActionDispatcher,
-  ServerActionMutable,
 } from './router-reducer/router-reducer-types'
 import { createHrefFromUrl } from './router-reducer/create-href-from-url'
 import {
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export function getServerActionDispatcher() {
   return globalServerActionDispatcher
 }
 
-let globalServerActionMutable: ServerActionMutable['globalMutable'] = {
+let globalMutable: Mutable['globalMutable'] = {
   refresh: () => {}, // noop until the router is initialized
 }
 
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ function useServerActionDispatcher(dispatch: React.Dispatch<ReducerActions>) {
         dispatch({
           ...actionPayload,
           type: ACTION_SERVER_ACTION,
-          mutable: { globalMutable: globalServerActionMutable },
+          mutable: { globalMutable },
           cache: createEmptyCacheNode(),
         })
       })
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ function useChangeByServerResponse(
           previousTree,
           overrideCanonicalUrl,
           cache: createEmptyCacheNode(),
-          mutable: {},
+          mutable: { globalMutable },
         })
       })
     },
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ function useNavigate(dispatch: React.Dispatch<ReducerActions>): RouterNavigate {
   return useCallback(
     (href, navigateType, forceOptimisticNavigation, shouldScroll) => {
       const url = new URL(addBasePath(href), location.href)
-      globalServerActionMutable.pendingNavigatePath = href
+      globalMutable.pendingNavigatePath = href
 
       return dispatch({
         type: ACTION_NAVIGATE,
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ function useNavigate(dispatch: React.Dispatch<ReducerActions>): RouterNavigate {
         shouldScroll: shouldScroll ?? true,
         navigateType,
         cache: createEmptyCacheNode(),
-        mutable: {},
+        mutable: { globalMutable },
       })
     },
     [dispatch]
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ function Router({
           dispatch({
             type: ACTION_REFRESH,
             cache: createEmptyCacheNode(),
-            mutable: {},
+            mutable: { globalMutable },
             origin: window.location.origin,
           })
         })
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ function Router({
             dispatch({
               type: ACTION_FAST_REFRESH,
               cache: createEmptyCacheNode(),
-              mutable: {},
+              mutable: { globalMutable },
               origin: window.location.origin,
             })
           })
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ function Router({
   }, [appRouter])
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    globalServerActionMutable.refresh = appRouter.refresh
+    globalMutable.refresh = appRouter.refresh
   }, [appRouter.refresh])
 
   if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
@@ -409,11 +409,16 @@ function Router({
   // in <Offscreen>. At least I hope so. (It will run twice in dev strict mode,
   // but that's... fine?)
   if (pushRef.mpaNavigation) {
-    const location = window.location
-    if (pushRef.pendingPush) {
-      location.assign(canonicalUrl)
-    } else {
-      location.replace(canonicalUrl)
+    // if there's a re-render, we don't want to trigger another redirect if one is already in flight to the same URL
+    if (globalMutable.pendingMpaPath !== canonicalUrl) {
+      const location = window.location
+      if (pushRef.pendingPush) {
+        location.assign(canonicalUrl)
+      } else {
+        location.replace(canonicalUrl)
+      }
+
+      globalMutable.pendingMpaPath = canonicalUrl
     }
     // TODO-APP: Should we listen to navigateerror here to catch failed
     // navigations somehow? And should we call window.stop() if a SPA navigation
diff --git a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/navigate-reducer.test.tsx b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/navigate-reducer.test.tsx
index 4ed01fed08c83..fcde9b963e9fd 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/navigate-reducer.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/navigate-reducer.test.tsx
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ const getInitialRouterStateTree = (): FlightRouterState => [
   true,
 ]
 
+const globalMutable = {
+  refresh: () => {},
+}
+
 async function runPromiseThrowChain(fn: any): Promise<any> {
   try {
     return await fn()
@@ -194,7 +198,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     const newState = await runPromiseThrowChain(() =>
@@ -438,7 +442,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     await runPromiseThrowChain(() => navigateReducer(state, action))
@@ -633,7 +637,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     await runPromiseThrowChain(() => navigateReducer(state, action))
@@ -792,7 +796,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     await runPromiseThrowChain(() => navigateReducer(state, action))
@@ -948,7 +952,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     await runPromiseThrowChain(() => navigateReducer(state, action))
@@ -1147,7 +1151,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     await runPromiseThrowChain(() => navigateReducer(state, action))
@@ -1317,7 +1321,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     await runPromiseThrowChain(() => navigateReducer(state, action))
@@ -1630,7 +1634,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     await runPromiseThrowChain(() => navigateReducer(state, action))
@@ -1841,6 +1845,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         hashFragment: '#hash',
         pendingPush: true,
         shouldScroll: true,
+        globalMutable,
       },
     }
 
@@ -1983,7 +1988,7 @@ describe('navigateReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     const newState = await runPromiseThrowChain(() =>
diff --git a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/refresh-reducer.test.tsx b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/refresh-reducer.test.tsx
index 9ed54e8994d2e..bbf36b1ec538c 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/refresh-reducer.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/refresh-reducer.test.tsx
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ const getInitialRouterStateTree = (): FlightRouterState => [
   true,
 ]
 
+const globalMutable = {
+  refresh: () => {},
+}
+
 async function runPromiseThrowChain(fn: any): Promise<any> {
   try {
     return await fn()
@@ -139,7 +143,7 @@ describe('refreshReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
       origin: new URL('/linking', 'https://localhost').origin,
     }
 
@@ -300,7 +304,7 @@ describe('refreshReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
       origin: new URL('/linking', 'https://localhost').origin,
     }
 
@@ -487,7 +491,7 @@ describe('refreshReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
       origin: new URL('/linking', 'https://localhost').origin,
     }
 
@@ -723,7 +727,7 @@ describe('refreshReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
       origin: new URL('/linking', 'https://localhost').origin,
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/server-patch-reducer.test.tsx b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/server-patch-reducer.test.tsx
index 0540c02079cb1..9e7035dc7e819 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/server-patch-reducer.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/reducers/server-patch-reducer.test.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ import type {
 
 const buildId = 'development'
 
+const globalMutable = {
+  refresh: () => {},
+}
+
 jest.mock('../fetch-server-response', () => {
   const flightData: FlightData = [
     [
@@ -184,7 +188,7 @@ describe('serverPatchReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     const newState = await runPromiseThrowChain(() =>
@@ -375,7 +379,7 @@ describe('serverPatchReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     await runPromiseThrowChain(() => serverPatchReducer(state, action))
@@ -514,7 +518,7 @@ describe('serverPatchReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     const state = createInitialRouterState({
@@ -556,7 +560,7 @@ describe('serverPatchReducer', () => {
         subTreeData: null,
         parallelRoutes: new Map(),
       },
-      mutable: {},
+      mutable: { globalMutable },
     }
 
     const newState = await runPromiseThrowChain(() =>
diff --git a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/router-reducer-types.ts b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/router-reducer-types.ts
index defbb657c7c42..d9c641c4045b7 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/router-reducer-types.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/router-reducer-types.ts
@@ -38,11 +38,15 @@ export interface Mutable {
   prefetchCache?: AppRouterState['prefetchCache']
   hashFragment?: string
   shouldScroll?: boolean
+  globalMutable: {
+    pendingNavigatePath?: string
+    pendingMpaPath?: string
+    refresh: () => void
+  }
 }
 
 export interface ServerActionMutable extends Mutable {
   inFlightServerAction?: Promise<any> | null
-  globalMutable: { pendingNavigatePath?: string; refresh: () => void }
   actionResultResolved?: boolean
 }
 
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/app/mpa-nav-test/page.js b/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/app/mpa-nav-test/page.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9a335e2d0995c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/app/mpa-nav-test/page.js
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+'use client'
+import Link from 'next/link'
+import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
+
+export default function Page() {
+  const prefetchRef = useRef()
+  const slowPageRef = useRef()
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    function triggerPrefetch() {
+      const event = new MouseEvent('mouseover', {
+        view: window,
+        bubbles: true,
+        cancelable: true,
+      })
+
+      prefetchRef.current.dispatchEvent(event)
+      console.log('dispatched')
+    }
+
+    slowPageRef.current.click()
+
+    setInterval(() => {
+      triggerPrefetch()
+    }, 1000)
+  }, [])
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <Link id="link-to-slow-page" href="/slow-page" ref={slowPageRef}>
+        To /slow-page
+      </Link>
+      <Link id="prefetch-link" href="/hash" ref={prefetchRef}>
+        Prefetch link
+      </Link>
+    </>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/navigation.test.ts b/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/navigation.test.ts
index 67beabf483fe3..b3e1cf19c4261 100644
--- a/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/navigation.test.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/navigation.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { createNextDescribe } from 'e2e-utils'
-import { check } from 'next-test-utils'
+import { check, waitFor } from 'next-test-utils'
 import type { Request } from 'playwright-chromium'
 
 createNextDescribe(
@@ -497,6 +497,33 @@ createNextDescribe(
           .waitForElementByCss('#link-to-app')
         expect(await browser.url()).toBe(next.url + '/some')
       })
+
+      if (!isNextDev) {
+        // this test is pretty hard to test in playwright, so most of the heavy lifting is in the page component itself
+        // it triggers a hover on a link to initiate a prefetch request every second, and so we check that
+        // it doesn't repeatedly initiate the mpa navigation request
+        it('should not continously initiate a mpa navigation to the same URL when router state changes', async () => {
+          let requestCount = 0
+          const browser = await next.browser('/mpa-nav-test', {
+            beforePageLoad(page) {
+              page.on('request', (request) => {
+                const url = new URL(request.url())
+                // skip rsc prefetches
+                if (url.pathname === '/slow-page' && !url.search) {
+                  requestCount++
+                }
+              })
+            },
+          })
+
+          await browser.waitForElementByCss('#link-to-slow-page')
+
+          // wait a few seconds since prefetches are triggered in 1s intervals in the page component
+          await waitFor(5000)
+
+          expect(requestCount).toBe(1)
+        })
+      }
     })
 
     describe('nested navigation', () => {
@@ -562,7 +589,7 @@ createNextDescribe(
         )
       })
 
-      it('should emit refresh meta tag (peramnent) for redirect page when streaming', async () => {
+      it('should emit refresh meta tag (permanent) for redirect page when streaming', async () => {
         const html = await next.render('/redirect/suspense-2')
         expect(html).toContain(
           '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/redirect/result"/>'
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/pages/slow-page.js b/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/pages/slow-page.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ad37357cb6dcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/pages/slow-page.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+export default function Page() {
+  return 'Hello from slow page'
+}
+
+export async function getServerSideProps({ resolvedUrl }) {
+  if (!resolvedUrl.includes('?_rsc')) {
+    // only stall on the navigation, not prefetch
+    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100000))
+  }
+  return {
+    props: {},
+  }
+}