To provide an apparatus for needle punching a fiber web so as to simplify change of needle boards at a low structural cost.

This apparatus for needle-punching a fiber web has a needle beam 1 holding needle boards 2 which are arranged traversely in the processing width direction, are liftably drivable and are changeable, and a fiber web guide route comprising a striper plate 6 laid between the needle board 2 and a bed plate 5, and the bed plate 5. A needle board conveyor extending along a line of the needle beam 1 is attached to the striper plate 6. The needle board conveyor is composed of a circulating conveyor 8 having two circulating pulling means 10. The pulling means 10 have a carrying piece of a side placing piece shape for the needle boards 2. The carrying piece is displaceable from the movement locus of the needle boards 2 connected to the needle beam 1.