To generate the required swirling flow without making a bucket into a complicated shape.

In a method for compensating for fluid force of a flow control valve having a passage structure in which a spool 1 is supported in a sleeve S by a static bearing 19, and fluid from the static bearing 19 is allowed to flow into a valve space 16 of a land 2 of the spool 1 and the circumferential groove of the sleeve S, a circumferential groove 4 is formed on the land 2 of the spool 1, fluid from the bearing is allowed to axially flow to the space 16 formed of the circumferential groove 4 and the sleeve S, and the control flow is swirled by the bearing flow to compensate for fluid force.