To provide a fracture split-type connecting rod made of a titanium alloy, easily splittable by a fracture construction method, and superior in reassembly performance, and a production method therefor.

This connecting rod is the fracture split-type connecting rod made of an + type titanium alloy, including a rod body 10 and a big end 30 provided at an end of the rod body 10, the big end 30 being fracture-split. The structure of the rod body 10 is an equiaxed structure, and the structure of fractured surfaces F of the big end 30 is an acicular structure.