The invention belongs to the technical field of coal tar processing, and discloses a solvent extraction method for dephenolization of phenol-containing coal tar. According to the method provided by the invention, in the whole process, only an extraction tower, a stripping tower and a desolvation tower are needed, so that the process of the dephenolization of the phenol-containing coal tar is greatly simplified, and the method has no pollutant discharge and low operating costs; and a small-molecular alcohol selected in the method has a selective dissolution effect on lower phenols, small-molecular alcohols dissolved in coarse dephenolized coal tar in a raffinate phase can be directly separated and recovered by distillation for recycling, so that an extraction solvent has little loss, the recovery rate is high, and the operating costs are reduced.