diff --git a/pkg/cache/tas_flavor_snapshot.go b/pkg/cache/tas_flavor_snapshot.go
index 16f1870ec4..099e3b2772 100644
--- a/pkg/cache/tas_flavor_snapshot.go
+++ b/pkg/cache/tas_flavor_snapshot.go
@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ func (s *TASFlavorSnapshot) FindTopologyAssignment(
 	return s.buildAssignment(currFitDomain)
 }
 
+func (s *TASFlavorSnapshot) HasLevel(r *kueue.PodSetTopologyRequest) bool {
+	_, found := s.resolveLevelIdx(r)
+	return found
+}
+
 func (s *TASFlavorSnapshot) resolveLevelIdx(
 	topologyRequest *kueue.PodSetTopologyRequest) (int, bool) {
 	var levelKey string
diff --git a/pkg/scheduler/flavorassigner/flavorassigner.go b/pkg/scheduler/flavorassigner/flavorassigner.go
index 2b5acc886a..76231deda1 100644
--- a/pkg/scheduler/flavorassigner/flavorassigner.go
+++ b/pkg/scheduler/flavorassigner/flavorassigner.go
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ func (a *FlavorAssigner) findFlavorForPodSetResource(
 			continue
 		}
 		if features.Enabled(features.TopologyAwareScheduling) {
-			if message := checkPodSetAndFlavorMatchForTAS(ps, flavor); message != nil {
+			if message := checkPodSetAndFlavorMatchForTAS(a.cq, ps, flavor); message != nil {
 				log.Error(nil, *message)
 				status.append(*message)
 				continue
diff --git a/pkg/scheduler/flavorassigner/tas_flavorassigner.go b/pkg/scheduler/flavorassigner/tas_flavorassigner.go
index c6d7f5107d..09b832e75e 100644
--- a/pkg/scheduler/flavorassigner/tas_flavorassigner.go
+++ b/pkg/scheduler/flavorassigner/tas_flavorassigner.go
@@ -92,10 +92,23 @@ func onlyFlavor(ra ResourceAssignment) (*kueue.ResourceFlavorReference, error) {
 	return nil, errors.New("no flavor assigned")
 }
 
-func checkPodSetAndFlavorMatchForTAS(ps *kueue.PodSet, flavor *kueue.ResourceFlavor) *string {
+func checkPodSetAndFlavorMatchForTAS(cq *cache.ClusterQueueSnapshot, ps *kueue.PodSet, flavor *kueue.ResourceFlavor) *string {
 	// For PodSets which require TAS skip resource flavors which don't support it
-	if ps.TopologyRequest != nil && flavor.Spec.TopologyName == nil {
-		return ptr.To(fmt.Sprintf("Flavor %q does not support TopologyAwareScheduling", flavor.Name))
+	if ps.TopologyRequest != nil {
+		if flavor.Spec.TopologyName == nil {
+			return ptr.To(fmt.Sprintf("Flavor %q does not support TopologyAwareScheduling", flavor.Name))
+		}
+		s := cq.TASFlavors[kueue.ResourceFlavorReference(flavor.Name)]
+		if s == nil {
+			// Skip Flavors if they don't have TAS information. This should generally
+			// not happen, but possible in race-situation when the ResourceFlavor
+			// API object was recently added but is not cached yet.
+			return ptr.To(fmt.Sprintf("Flavor %q information missing in TAS cache", flavor.Name))
+		}
+		if !s.HasLevel(ps.TopologyRequest) {
+			// Skip flavors which don't have the requested level
+			return ptr.To(fmt.Sprintf("Flavor %q does not contain the requested level", flavor.Name))
+		}
 	}
 	// For PodSets which don't use TAS skip resource flavors which are only for TAS
 	if ps.TopologyRequest == nil && flavor.Spec.TopologyName != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/scheduler/scheduler_test.go b/pkg/scheduler/scheduler_test.go
index f2b9c11c80..36a4816cf6 100644
--- a/pkg/scheduler/scheduler_test.go
+++ b/pkg/scheduler/scheduler_test.go
@@ -4162,6 +4162,124 @@ func TestScheduleForTAS(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 		},
+		"workload requests topology level which is not present in topology": {
+			nodes:           defaultSingleNode,
+			topologies:      []kueuealpha.Topology{defaultSingleLevelTopology},
+			resourceFlavors: []kueue.ResourceFlavor{defaultTASFlavor},
+			clusterQueues:   []kueue.ClusterQueue{defaultClusterQueue},
+			workloads: []kueue.Workload{
+				*utiltesting.MakeWorkload("foo", "default").
+					Queue("tas-main").
+					PodSets(*utiltesting.MakePodSet("one", 1).
+						RequiredTopologyRequest("cloud.com/non-existing").
+						Request(corev1.ResourceCPU, "1").
+						Obj()).
+					Obj(),
+			},
+			wantInadmissibleLeft: map[string][]string{
+				"tas-main": {"default/foo"},
+			},
+			wantEvents: []utiltesting.EventRecord{
+				{
+					Key:       types.NamespacedName{Namespace: "default", Name: "foo"},
+					EventType: "Warning",
+					Reason:    "Pending",
+					Message:   "failed to assign flavors to pod set one: no flavor assigned",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"workload requests topology level which is only present in second flavor": {
+			nodes: []corev1.Node{
+				{
+					ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+						Name: "x1",
+						Labels: map[string]string{
+							"tas-node":               "true",
+							"cloud.com/custom-level": "x1",
+						},
+					},
+					Status: corev1.NodeStatus{
+						Allocatable: corev1.ResourceList{
+							corev1.ResourceCPU: resource.MustParse("1"),
+						},
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			topologies: []kueuealpha.Topology{defaultSingleLevelTopology,
+				{
+					ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+						Name: "tas-custom-topology",
+					},
+					Spec: kueuealpha.TopologySpec{
+						Levels: []kueuealpha.TopologyLevel{
+							{
+								NodeLabel: "cloud.com/custom-level",
+							},
+						},
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			resourceFlavors: []kueue.ResourceFlavor{defaultTASFlavor,
+				{
+					ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+						Name: "tas-custom-flavor",
+					},
+					Spec: kueue.ResourceFlavorSpec{
+						NodeLabels: map[string]string{
+							"tas-node": "true",
+						},
+						TopologyName: ptr.To("tas-custom-topology"),
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			clusterQueues: []kueue.ClusterQueue{
+				*utiltesting.MakeClusterQueue("tas-main").
+					ResourceGroup(
+						*utiltesting.MakeFlavorQuotas("tas-default").
+							Resource(corev1.ResourceCPU, "50").Obj(),
+						*utiltesting.MakeFlavorQuotas("tas-custom-flavor").
+							Resource(corev1.ResourceCPU, "50").Obj()).
+					Obj(),
+			},
+			workloads: []kueue.Workload{
+				*utiltesting.MakeWorkload("foo", "default").
+					Queue("tas-main").
+					PodSets(*utiltesting.MakePodSet("one", 1).
+						RequiredTopologyRequest("cloud.com/custom-level").
+						Request(corev1.ResourceCPU, "1").
+						Obj()).
+					Obj(),
+			},
+			wantNewAssignments: map[string]kueue.Admission{
+				"default/foo": *utiltesting.MakeAdmission("tas-main", "one").
+					Assignment(corev1.ResourceCPU, "tas-custom-flavor", "1").
+					AssignmentPodCount(1).
+					TopologyAssignment(&kueue.TopologyAssignment{
+						Levels: []string{"cloud.com/custom-level"},
+						Domains: []kueue.TopologyDomainAssignment{
+							{
+								Count: 1,
+								Values: []string{
+									"x1",
+								},
+							},
+						},
+					}).Obj(),
+			},
+			eventCmpOpts: []cmp.Option{eventIgnoreMessage},
+			wantEvents: []utiltesting.EventRecord{
+				{
+					Key:       types.NamespacedName{Namespace: "default", Name: "foo"},
+					Reason:    "QuotaReserved",
+					EventType: corev1.EventTypeNormal,
+				},
+				{
+					Key:       types.NamespacedName{Namespace: "default", Name: "foo"},
+					Reason:    "Admitted",
+					EventType: corev1.EventTypeNormal,
+				},
+			},
+		},
 		"workload does not get scheduled as it does not fit within the node capacity": {
 			nodes:           defaultSingleNode,
 			topologies:      []kueuealpha.Topology{defaultSingleLevelTopology},