Provided is a functional nonwoven fabric that has good feeling upon use, such as hand feeling (softness) or texture, and is capable of stably exhibiting the characteristics of hydroxyapatite (for example, microbe adsorption property).Disclosed is a functional nonwoven fabric in which sintered hydroxyapatite particles are fixed by thermal fusion bonding to a surface of a nonwoven fabric containing fibers, at least surfaces of the fibers being mainly composed of a thermoplastic resin, wherein a shearing rigidity of the functional nonwoven fabric is 8.5 gf/cm/degree or less.
