diff --git a/scrapy/http/request/form.py b/scrapy/http/request/form.py
index 2864ac030..252c193a4 100644
--- a/scrapy/http/request/form.py
+++ b/scrapy/http/request/form.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class FormRequest(Request):
             items = formdata.iteritems() if isinstance(formdata, dict) else formdata
             query = [(unicode_to_str(k, self.encoding), _unicode_to_str(v, self.encoding))
                     for k, v in items]
+            self.method = 'POST'
             self.body = urllib.urlencode(query, doseq=1)
             self.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
 
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_http_request.py b/scrapy/tests/test_http_request.py
index 3d37f16e7..3c50ffec9 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_http_request.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_http_request.py
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ class FormRequestTest(unittest.TestCase):
         # using default encoding (utf-8)
         data = {'one': 'two', 'price': '\xc2\xa3 100'}
         r2 = FormRequest("http://www.example.com", formdata=data)
+        self.assertEqual(r2.method, 'POST')
         self.assertEqual(r2.encoding, 'utf-8')
         self.assertEqual(r2.body, 'price=%C2%A3+100&one=two')
         self.assertEqual(r2.headers['Content-Type'], 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')