Fuel injection nozzle

In a fuel injection nozzle having a nozzle body (10), which is provided with at least one injection port (12) and with a conical bearing face (14), and having a nozzle needle (16), which is displaceable in the nozzle body and has an inlet face (18) as well as a radial shoulder (20), adjoining the inlet face downstream, so that a sealing seat which can cooperate with the bearing face is formed at the transition to the inlet face, the object is to improve the precision of fuel meter for the pre-injection. To that end, it is provided that an angle formed by a tangent to the radial shoulder in the region of the sealing seat and by the center axis of the injection nozzle amounts to more than 45°, and that downstream, adjoining the radial shoulder, a circumferential groove (24) is formed, which extends at least as far as the injection port (12), so that in an opening stroke of the nozzle needle for the sake of the pre-injection, the narrowest cross section between the nozzle needle and the nozzle body is formed in the region of the sealing seat.