diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Routing/Loader/AnnotationDirectoryLoader.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Routing/Loader/AnnotationDirectoryLoader.php
index 8097cd67f96c..0fca30494299 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Routing/Loader/AnnotationDirectoryLoader.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Routing/Loader/AnnotationDirectoryLoader.php
@@ -38,7 +38,12 @@ public function load($path, $type = null)
 
         $collection = new RouteCollection();
         $collection->addResource(new DirectoryResource($dir, '/\.php$/'));
-        foreach (new \RecursiveIteratorIterator(new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir), \RecursiveIteratorIterator::LEAVES_ONLY) as $file) {
+        $files = iterator_to_array(new \RecursiveIteratorIterator(new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir), \RecursiveIteratorIterator::LEAVES_ONLY));
+        usort($files, function (\SplFileInfo $a, \SplFileInfo $b) {
+            return (string) $a > (string) $b ? 1 : -1;
+        });
+
+        foreach ($files as $file) {
             if (!$file->isFile() || '.php' !== substr($file->getFilename(), -4)) {
                 continue;
             }