The invention relates to a preparation method of a direct ethanol fuel cell anode catalyst, and belongs to the technical field of fuel cells. The preparation method is characterized in that glucose isused as a raw material for preparing carbon spheres used as a carrier, and manganese dioxide is loaded to replace part of platinum, and on that basis, the efficient and low-cost catalyst is prepared;and meanwhile, rare earth elements are doped, so that electrons are easily excited and transferred from a conduction band, thus oxygen vacancy is promoted to develop, and the oxygen vacancy concentration of the catalyst is greatly increased, and as a result, the ion conductivity is improved; in addition, the crystal size of the material is reduced due to low synthesizing temperature; the C-C breaking efficiency under low temperature is improved. According to the method, TiO2 and Pt are coordinated to improve the catalyzing performance of the catalyst; and meanwhile, a CO type intermediate product produced by ethanol oxidizing is easily transferred to the TiO2 nanoparticle surface to be oxidized; the catalyzing activity and stability of the catalyst are improved while the Pt content is decreased; and moreover, the initial potential of the ethanol starting to oxidize is reduced; high current density is obtained, and as a result, the fuel cell performance is improved.