diff --git a/kallithea/model/repo.py b/kallithea/model/repo.py
--- a/kallithea/model/repo.py
+++ b/kallithea/model/repo.py
@@ -140,14 +140,12 @@ class RepoModel(object):
         user_groups = UserGroup.query() \
             .filter(UserGroup.users_group_active == True) \
             .order_by(UserGroup.users_group_name) \
-            .options(subqueryload(UserGroup.members)) \
             .all()
         user_groups = UserGroupList(user_groups, perm_level='read')
         return [
             {
                 'id': gr.users_group_id,
                 'grname': gr.users_group_name,
-                'grmembers': len(gr.members),
             } for gr in user_groups]
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/kallithea/public/js/base.js b/kallithea/public/js/base.js
--- a/kallithea/public/js/base.js
+++ b/kallithea/public/js/base.js
@@ -1109,11 +1109,9 @@ var autocompleteFormatter = function (oR
     // group
     if (oResultData.grname) {
         return autocompleteGravatar(
-            "{0}: {1} ({2} {3})".format(
+            "{0}: {1}".format(
                 _TM['Group'],
-                autocompleteHighlightMatch(oResultData.grname, query),
-                oResultData.grmembers,
-                _TM['members']),
+                autocompleteHighlightMatch(oResultData.grname, query)),
             null, null, true);
     }
 
diff --git a/kallithea/templates/base/root.html b/kallithea/templates/base/root.html
--- a/kallithea/templates/base/root.html
+++ b/kallithea/templates/base/root.html
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
                 'Stop following this repository': ${h.jshtml(_('Stop following this repository'))},
                 'Start following this repository': ${h.jshtml(_('Start following this repository'))},
                 'Group': ${h.jshtml(_('Group'))},
-                'members': ${h.jshtml(_('members'))},
                 'Loading ...': ${h.jshtml(_('Loading ...'))},
                 'loading ...': ${h.jshtml(_('loading ...'))},
                 'Search truncated': ${h.jshtml(_('Search truncated'))},