Soil contaminated with pathogenic bacteria has become an emerging threat against environmental safety and public health. Therefore, it is of great importance to carry out corresponding risk management and remediation practice. Being capable of inactivating targeted pathogenic bacteria in the soil system, bacteriophage therapy is gaining increasing attention. Here, the review firstly focuses on the definition of bacteriophage therapy and the impact of its application of inactivating pathogens in soil system on soil ecological functioning. Furthermore, the status and the future perspective of the phage therapy application in soil environment were reviewed. The review can provide scientific reference and theoretical evidence concerning the application of bacteriophage therapy in remediating soil contaminated with pathogenic bacteria.