The invention discloses a 
europium-based 
coordination polymer nanosphere and a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method of the 
europium-based 
coordination polymer nanosphere comprises the following steps of adding EuCl3.6H2O, H2BDC and 
polyvinylpyrrolidone to mixed 
solvent formed by mixing N, N-
dimethylformamide and absolute ethyl 
alcohol, and conducting stirring till the materials are fully dissolved; then, transferring a 
mixed solution into a reaction still provided with a 
polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, and putting the reaction still in a 
drying oven at the temperature of 150 DEG C to leave the reaction still standing still for 12 hours; and then sequentially conducting cooling, centrifugalization, washing and 
vacuum drying, so that the 
europium-based 
coordination polymer nanospheres are obtained. A to-be-detected 
water body is added to fluorescent material suspension liquid prepared from the europium-based coordination 
polymer nanospheres; after being mixed uniformly, the materials are left standing still; and then a 
fluorescence spectrophotometer is adopted for detection, and the content of 
phosphate in the to-be-detected 
water body can be obtained. The europium-based coordination 
polymer nanosphere is stable in performance, not prone to 
photobleaching, good in water 
solubility, capable of effectively detecting the content of the 
phosphate in the 
water body, simple in synthesis method and low in 
raw material cost.