It is provided that a nonwoven fabric for reinforcing foam molded articles which is excellent in the dimensional stability in a cutting/sewing step, in the followability to a mold in a foam molding step, and gives a foam molded article with excellent appearance and durability. A nonwoven fabric for reinforcing foam molded articles formed by interlacing at least 2 filament nonwoven fabric layers with different apparent density, wherein the nonwoven fabric has base weight of 50-110 g/m2, thickness of 0.5-1.2 mm, 23 to 50 N/5 cm stress at the time of 5% elongation in longitudinal direction, 15 N/5 cm or lower stress at the time of 5% elongation in transverse direction, and air permeability of 50 to 250 cm3/cm2·sec.