Provided is a novel surface protective sheet including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a supporting base material, in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a high anchoring force for the supporting base material, and no adhesive residue occurs upon peeling of the surface protective sheet after its attachment to an adherend. The surface protective sheet of the present invention is a surface protective sheet including: a supporting base material; a surface layer (I) as one outermost layer of the supporting base material; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the surface layer (I), in which: the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a thermoplastic elastomer; and the surface layer (I) contains a linear, low-density polyethylene at the content of more than 50 wt %.