Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing pneumatic tire

A method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire that spirally winds band-like belt cover materials on an outer side in a tire radial direction of a belt layer around a tire rotation axis to dispose a belt cover layer, the method comprising:

• using a first cover material and a second cover material as the belt cover materials;
• when one side in a tire width direction with respect to a tire equatorial plane is defined as a first side and another side in the tire width direction with respect to the tire equatorial plane is defined as a second side;
• spirally winding the first cover material from a position between a shoulder region on the second side and the tire equatorial plane to a shoulder region on the first side;
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• spirally winding the second cover material from a position between the shoulder region on the first side and the tire equatorial plane to the shoulder region on the second side,
• winding the first cover material and winding the second cover material overlap the first cover material and the second cover material in the tire radial direction at a portion where positions in the tire width direction are an identical position between the first cover material and the second cover material to form an overlapping portion, the overlapping portion having a width in the tire width direction that varies depending on a position thereof in a tire circumferential direction, the first cover material and the second cover material overlapping in the tire radial direction at the overlapping portion.