The invention discloses an organic solvent-water heating method for preparing football-shaped mesoporous BiVO4, comprising the following experimental steps: under the condition of stirring, bismuth nitrate and ammonium metavanadate are dissolved in a mixed solution of ethanol, ethylene glycol, nitric acid and laurylamine (oleylamine or mixed liquid of oleylamine and oleic acid); a sodium hydroxide (2mol / L) alcohol solution of ethanol and ethylene glycol with the volume ratio of 1 to 1 is used to regulate the pH of the solution to be equal to 1.5-3; the mixed solution is transferred in a stainless steel self-pressing vessel (the volume filling degree is about 70%) with a Teflon inner liner and is put in an incubator to carry out organic solvent - water heating treatment for 12h in constant temperature of 100 DEG C; and the mixed solution is naturally cooled to room temperature after taking out. The obtained product after the organic solvent - water heating treatment is filtered, is washed with deionized water and absolute ethanol and is dried for 12h at the temperature of 60 DEG C, and then football-shaped mesoporous BiVO4 micron particles with a monoclinic scheelite structure isobtained. The porous bismuth vanadate obtained by the method has good application prospects in the fields of photocatalysis, electrode materials, pigments, ion conductive ceramic, and the like.