The invention provides a method for identifying the resistance of soybeans to soybean phytophthora blight and the application of the method in breeding. The method comprises the steps of (1) inoculant preparation: inoculating a phytophthora sojae strain to a CA culture medium, a V8 culture medium or a lima bean sulture medium, enabling the phytophthora sojae strain to rejuvenate through dark culture, and processing and smashing a culture medium which is rich in thalli to obtain an inoculant; (2) soybean plant material inoculation: containing the inoculant obtained in step (1) in a detection container, selecting a green shanked leaf, which just stretches, of a to-be-detected soybean plant, and inserting a leafstalk in the inoculant in the detection container; (3) dark culture: judging a result after carrying out the dark culture by putting the detection container in which the soybean material is inoculated in step (2) in a humid confined space. The method for identifying the resistance of the soybeans on the soybean phytophthora blight, disclosed by the invention, has the advantages that the operation is simple and convenient, the cost is low, and the time is saved, repeated experiment can be carried out; meanwhile, a to-be-identified experiment material cannot be lost, and the defect in a traditional method that experiment materials are collectively lost can be avoided.