Method for manufacturing friction discs made of ceramic materials with at least one friction layer, the matrix of which includes silicon carbide, silicon and carbon, wherein - in a first step a mixture is prepared from finely particulate silicone and/or fine particles of other carbide-forming elements with at least one further component selected from one resin in particular form and a binding agent selected from synthetic resins, pitches and mixtures of these, - in a second step the mixture is de-aerated and at a raised temperature of up to 280 °C pressed and hardened to a cylindrical or cylindrical ring-shaped disc, - in a third step the hardened disc is treated by heating in the absence of oxidising agents to a temperature of approximately 750 °C to approximately 1300 °C, wherein the binding agents decompose while forming a carbon residue, and a porous carbon body remains, - in a fourth step the porous carbon body is heated to above the melting point of the silicon or the other carbide forming elements, wherein these react with the carbon which is formed and result in an alveolar structure with a lattice from the carbides formed and non-transformed remains of carbon or the carbide-forming elements, - in a fifth step further silicon is added at a temperature above its melting point, wherein at least a part of the pores of the structure fills with elemental silicon and non-transformed carbon of the alveolar structure reacts with silicon to form silicon carbide, characterised in that the mixture used in the first step includes proportions by mass of 20 % to 70 % of finely particulate silicone with an average particle size of 5 μm to 250 μm and/or of finely particulate other carbide-forming elements with an average particle size of 5 μm to 250 μm, of 30 % to 80 % of binding agents or resins in particular form, and of maximum 10 % of fibres made of carbon, wherein these short fibres have a length of from 0.001 mm to 30 mm. - in a first step a mixture is prepared from finely particulate silicone and/or fine particles of other carbide-forming elements with at least one further component selected from one resin in particular form and a binding agent selected from synthetic resins, pitches and mixtures of these, - in a second step the mixture is de-aerated and at a raised temperature of up to 280 °C pressed and hardened to a cylindrical or cylindrical ring-shaped disc, - in a third step the hardened disc is treated by heating in the absence of oxidising agents to a temperature of approximately 750 °C to approximately 1300 °C, wherein the binding agents decompose while forming a carbon residue, and a porous carbon body remains, - in a fourth step the porous carbon body is heated to above the melting point of the silicon or the other carbide forming elements, wherein these react with the carbon which is formed and result in an alveolar structure with a lattice from the carbides formed and non-transformed remains of carbon or the carbide-forming elements, - in a fifth step further silicon is added at a temperature above its melting point, wherein at least a part of the pores of the structure fills with elemental silicon and non-transformed carbon of the alveolar structure reacts with silicon to form silicon carbide,