diff --git a/src/components/RouterLinkStub.ts b/src/components/RouterLinkStub.ts
index 255253a91..bf7900f89 100644
--- a/src/components/RouterLinkStub.ts
+++ b/src/components/RouterLinkStub.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ export const RouterLinkStub = defineComponent({
   },
 
   render() {
-    return h('a', undefined, this.$slots.default())
+    return h('a', undefined, this.$slots?.default?.())
   }
 })
diff --git a/src/mount.ts b/src/mount.ts
index 6ce0d2618..3f9dd5bf6 100644
--- a/src/mount.ts
+++ b/src/mount.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ import { createWrapper, VueWrapper } from './vueWrapper'
 import { attachEmitListener } from './emitMixin'
 import { createDataMixin } from './dataMixin'
 import { MOUNT_COMPONENT_REF, MOUNT_PARENT_NAME } from './constants'
-import { stubComponents } from './stubs'
+import { createStub, stubComponents } from './stubs'
+import { hyphenate } from './utils/vueShared'
 
 // NOTE this should come from `vue`
 type PublicProps = VNodeProps & AllowedComponentProps & ComponentCustomProps
@@ -405,6 +406,23 @@ export function mount(
   // stub out Transition and Transition Group by default.
   stubComponents(global.stubs, options?.shallow)
 
+  // users expect stubs to work with globally registered
+  // compnents, too, such as <router-link> and <router-view>
+  // so we register those globally.
+  // https://github.com/vuejs/vue-test-utils-next/issues/249
+  if (global?.stubs) {
+    for (const [name, stub] of Object.entries(global.stubs)) {
+      const tag = hyphenate(name)
+      if (stub === true) {
+        // default stub.
+        app.component(tag, createStub({ name, props: {} }))
+      } else {
+        // user has provided a custom implementation.
+        app.component(tag, stub)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   // mount the app!
   const vm = app.mount(el)
 
diff --git a/src/stubs.ts b/src/stubs.ts
index 42ad49217..ed562c168 100644
--- a/src/stubs.ts
+++ b/src/stubs.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ function getSlots(ctx: ComponentPublicInstance): Slots | undefined {
   return !config.renderStubDefaultSlot ? undefined : ctx.$slots
 }
 
-const createStub = ({ name, props }: StubOptions): ComponentOptions => {
+export const createStub = ({ name, props }: StubOptions): ComponentOptions => {
   const anonName = 'anonymous-stub'
   const tag = name ? `${hyphenate(name)}-stub` : anonName
 
diff --git a/tests/mountingOptions/stubs.global.spec.ts b/tests/mountingOptions/stubs.global.spec.ts
index 1fe7280fb..2ee6d86e1 100644
--- a/tests/mountingOptions/stubs.global.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/mountingOptions/stubs.global.spec.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import { h, ComponentOptions } from 'vue'
+import { h, ComponentOptions, defineComponent } from 'vue'
 
-import { config, mount } from '../../src'
+import { config, mount, RouterLinkStub } from '../../src'
 import Hello from '../components/Hello.vue'
 import ComponentWithoutName from '../components/ComponentWithoutName.vue'
 import ComponentWithSlots from '../components/ComponentWithSlots.vue'
@@ -37,6 +37,31 @@ describe('mounting options: stubs', () => {
     expect(wrapper.html()).toBe('<div></div><foo-stub></foo-stub>')
   })
 
+  // https://github.com/vuejs/vue-test-utils-next/issues/249
+  it('applies stubs globally', () => {
+    const Comp = defineComponent({
+      template: '<div><foo /><router-link to="/foo" /><router-view /></div>'
+    })
+    const wrapper = mount(Comp, {
+      global: {
+        stubs: {
+          Foo: true,
+          RouterLink: RouterLinkStub,
+          RouterView: defineComponent({
+            render() {
+              return h('span')
+            }
+          })
+        }
+      }
+    })
+
+    expect(wrapper.html()).toBe(
+      '<div><foo-stub></foo-stub><a></a><span></span></div>'
+    )
+    expect(wrapper.getComponent(RouterLinkStub).vm.to).toBe('/foo')
+  })
+
   it('stubs a functional component by its variable declaration name', () => {
     const FunctionalFoo = (props) => h('p', props, 'Foo Text')