Method for producing friction discs from fibre-reinforced ceramic materials, in which - in the first step a friction layer preform is produced in the form of a separately produced cylinder-circular disc, wherein initially a mixture is prepared from silicon carbide powder with a mean particle diameter of 50 μm to 120 μm, in a mass percentage in the mixture of 50 % to 95 %, from silicon powder in a mass percentage in the mixture of 5 % to 20 %, from a carbonisable binder selected from pitches and polymers, and without the addition of short carbon fibres or with the addition of short carbon fibres in a mass percentage in the mixture of 0.1 % to 10 %, which are filled into a mould, pressed into a cylinder-circular disc and hardened, - in the second step the hardened cylinder-circular disc is carbonised at a temperature of 750 °C to 1,300 °C with the exclusion of oxygen, to form a friction layer preform, - in the third step the carbonised preform for the friction layer is combined with a carrier body, which - either exists in the CFRP state, i.e. as body reinforced with carbon fibres having a matrix containing hardened synthetic resin, - or exists in the CSiC state, i.e. a ceramic body reinforced with carbon fibres, the matrix of which contains silicon carbide, silicon and carbon, or - is formed through insertion of the carbonised preform for the friction layer into a mould, filling-up and levelling-off of a moulding compound for the carrier body on the inserted carbonised preform for the friction layer, wherein the moulding compound contains reinforcing fibres of carbon, a binder and also optionally fillers, subsequent placing of a further carbonised friction layer preform on top, and also pressing and hardening of the mould filling, and - in the fourth step the combination of the carbonised preform for the friction layer with the carrier body is subjected to a carbonising step, if the carrier body exists in the CFRP state, and thereafter - in the fifth step the combination of the carbonised preform for the friction layer with the carrier body is infiltrated with liquid silicon at a temperature of preferably 1,500 °C to 1,800 °C under reduced pressure. - in the first step a friction layer preform is produced in the form of a separately produced cylinder-circular disc, wherein initially a mixture is prepared from silicon carbide powder with a mean particle diameter of 50 μm to 120 μm, in a mass percentage in the mixture of 50 % to 95 %, from silicon powder in a mass percentage in the mixture of 5 % to 20 %, from a carbonisable binder selected from pitches and polymers, and without the addition of short carbon fibres or with the addition of short carbon fibres in a mass percentage in the mixture of 0.1 % to 10 %, which are filled into a mould, pressed into a cylinder-circular disc and hardened, - in the second step the hardened cylinder-circular disc is carbonised at a temperature of 750 °C to 1,300 °C with the exclusion of oxygen, to form a friction layer preform, - in the third step the carbonised preform for the friction layer is combined with a carrier body, which - either exists in the CFRP state, i.e. as body reinforced with carbon fibres having a matrix containing hardened synthetic resin, - or exists in the CSiC state, i.e. a ceramic body reinforced with carbon fibres, the matrix of which contains silicon carbide, silicon and carbon, or - is formed through insertion of the carbonised preform for the friction layer into a mould, filling-up and levelling-off of a moulding compound for the carrier body on the inserted carbonised preform for the friction layer, wherein the moulding compound contains reinforcing fibres of carbon, a binder and also optionally fillers, subsequent placing of a further carbonised friction layer preform on top, and also pressing and hardening of the mould filling, and - in the fourth step the combination of the carbonised preform for the friction layer with the carrier body is subjected to a carbonising step, if the carrier body exists in the CFRP state, and thereafter - in the fifth step the combination of the carbonised preform for the friction layer with the carrier body is infiltrated with liquid silicon at a temperature of preferably 1,500 °C to 1,800 °C under reduced pressure.