A series of novel 3-(2-(substituted phenyl)hydrazinylmethylidene)furan-2,4(3H,5H)-diones were designed and synthesized with ethyl 4-chloroacetoacetate as the starting material. Their structures were confirmed by FT-IR, 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR, EI-MS and elemental analysis. Bioassay data demonstrated that these compounds exhibited remarkable antifungal activity against Fusarium graminearum, Botrytis cinerea, Rhizoctonia cerealis and Colletotrichum capsici. Compound 3-(2-(4-bromophenyl)hydrazinylmethylidene)furan-2,4(3H,5H)-dione (5g) had excellent bioactivity against Botrytis cinerea with an EC 50 value of 0.18 mg/mL ¾ markedly lower than the 0.24 mg/mL of the commercial fungicide procymidone. The result revealed that introducing the halogenated phenylhydrazine at the 3-position of furan-2,4(3H, 5H)-dione was an effective way to design new tetronic acid derivatives as new fungicides.