There’s no place like home when home is AFC Richmond!
Ted Lasso Season 4 is officially a go at Apple TV+ – with Jason Sudeikis reprising his role as the titular character. After months of speculation, the streamer finally announced that the global phenomenon will return for another season. It promises to “reunite the team behind the history-making and multi-Emmy-winning comedy series.” However, Apple TV+ doesn’t reveal who that team includes – if anyone else from the original run.
The sports comedy’s three-season arc concluded with Ted Lasso Season 3, Episode 12, “So Long, Farewell,” in June 2023. The season – not series, now – finale saw Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) maintain her ownership of the fictional football club. She sold 49% of her shares to the fans, including Baz, Jeremy, Paul, and the Crown & Anchor’s Mae. Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) reopened her PR firm, renamed KBPR, to include her new business partner, Barbara. Keeley also presented Rebecca with a new and exciting idea for the club’s future – an AFC Richmond Women’s Team.
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After Ted Lasso’s Season 3 finale, that women’s team became one of the front-runners for potential spinoff series. “So Long, Farewell” also teased AFC Richmond’s future with its latest coaching staff – former player Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) as head coach with Coach Beard (Brendant Hunt) and Coach Nathan Shelley (Nick Mohammed). After all, the episode saw Ted return to Kansas to be with his family. The season finale showed Ted coaching his son Henry’s soccer team, passing on the advice from Season 1 – “Be a goldfish.”
Since then, speculation has ebbed and flowed about Ted Lasso’s future. In March 2023, Sudeiekis told Deadline that the show’s third season marked the “end of the story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell, that we loved to tell.” By August 2024, Deadline exclusively reported that Apple TV+ was eyeing a fourth season of the comedy with options for original stars to return.
There was little movement after – until Bill Lawrence spoke with LA Times in December 2024. “The one thing that he [Sudeikis] was always very clear about, without divulging anything, is that the story that we came up with for the first three seasons was Ted Lasso had a beginning, middle and end; without a doubt it had an end, you saw him jumping around and go home,” Lawrence shared. “It helped cement my thoughts and I don’t want to speak for him, but it’d be interesting to see that there’s always another story to tell with characters that people like, but it’s a different story. It’s almost a self-reboot. I think that he [Sudeikis] always had in his head another story he wanted to tell,” he continued.
Now, Sudeikis is sharing more, although not a lot, about that story. “As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to ‘look before we leap, in season four, the folks at AFC Richmond learn to LEAP BEFORE THEY LOOK, discovering that wherever they land, it’s exactly where they’re meant to be,” Sudeikis said in a statement. He revealed a bit more on the New Heights podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce. “We’re writing Season 4 now. That’s the official word. Ted’s coaching a women’s team,” Sudeikis shared.
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Again, it’s still unclear who “the folks at AFC Richmond” are and if those folks include this women’s team. Apple TV+ hasn’t shared a list of returning or new cast members for Ted Lasso Season 4. Interestingly, Temple told Entertainment Weekly in February 2025, “The idea of a spinoff with Ted Lasso is a complicated one for me, because it so feels like a team that I don’t know if I would want to do a spinoff. I don’t want to be a part of it if everybody else isn’t. It’s a team. It’s a real team!”
Apple TV+ has revealed Ted Lasso Season 4’s creative team. Emmy Award-winner Jack Burditt joins the series as an executive producer under a new overall deal with Apple TV+. Sudeikis executive produces alongside Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, and Bill Wrubel. Brett Golstein serves as writer and executive producer alongside Leanne Bowen. Sara Walker and Phoebe Walsh are writers and producers for Season 4, and Sasha Garron co-produces. Julia Lindon will write for Season 4, and Dylan Marron will serve as story editor.
“Ted Lasso has been nothing short of a juggernaut, inspiring a passionate fanbase all over the world, and delivering endless joy and laughter, all while spreading kindness, compassion, and unwavering belief. Everyone at Apple is thrilled to be continuing our collaboration with Jason and the brilliant creative minds behind this show,” Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, shared in a statement.
Bill Lawrence executive produces via his Doozer Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content. Doozer’s Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer also serve as executive producers. Sudeikis, Lawrence, Joe Kelly, and Brendan Hunt developed Ted Lasso, based on the preexisting format and characters from NBC Sports.
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Ted Lasso is streaming on Apple TV+.
