To promote recycling of an alkali-free glass, to invent a method for manufacturing a glass sheet with excellent dislvability of a glass batch, to increase recycling rate of the alkali-free glass, and to reduce production cost of a glass sheet having a high strain point.

The method for manufacturing the glass sheet comprises: blending glass raw materials and preparing the glass batch; subsequently melting the glass batch in a glass-melting furnace; and shaping the melt into the glass sheet. Here, the alkali-free glass is used as a portion of the glass raw materials. The glass raw materials are blended so that the glass sheet acquires a glass composition comprising, in mass% calculated in terms of oxides, 40-75% SiO2, 1-18% Al2O3, 0.1-12% B2O3, 5-30% RO, 0-10% MgO, 0-20% CaO, 0-15% SrO, 0-15% BaO and 0-25% Na2O+K2O.

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