To provide a method for manufacturing an inexpensive copper material with a low softening temperature, and to provide the copper material.

By the method for manufacturing the copper material, the copper material is directly manufactured from molten tough-pitch copper with the use of a continuous casting and rolling apparatus, wherein the molten tough-pitch copper stored in a molten-metal-storing means of the continuous casting and rolling apparatus includes at least one metal selected from Ti, Zr, V, Ta, Fe, Ca, Mg and Ni or one alloy thereof in an amount of 0.0004 to 0.055 wt.%.