The invention discloses a method and device for five times of iterative decoding of superstrong forward error correction, and relates to the field of channel error correction coding and decoding in an optical communication system. The device comprises a synchronization word analytical unit, an internal frame mapping unit, an RAM storage unit, a control unit for five times of iterative decoding, a BCH (900, 860) code syndrome computing unit, a BCH (900, 860) code BM algorithm unit, a BCH (900, 860) code data buffer unit, a BCH (900, 860) code forward search and error correction unit, a BCH (500, 491) code syndrome computing unit, a BCH (500, 491) code data buffer unit, a BCH (500, 491) code forward search and error correction unit, an internal frame inverse mapping unit and a decoding performance monitoring unit. Hardware implementation resources are small in scale, and the good coding gain error correction performance is acquired through five times of iterative decoding.