The Apple TV+ show seemed to come to a natural end with Season 3, but recent news suggests Ted Lasso Season 4 is more likely to happen than previously thought.
Ted Lasso was a sweet comfort when it launched on Apple TV+ in 2020. The world learned to “believe”, and it became the streaming services‘s most successful hit, garnering critical acclaim and grabbing 11 Emmy wins over the course of its run.
The Apple TV+ show follows the titular American coach as he travels to the UK to coach AFC Richmond, managed by the vengeful ex-wife of the club’s former owner. However, she soon sees the error of her ways as Ted wins everyone over with his feel-good, happy-go-lucky spirit, all while battling his own demons.
The Season 3 ending suggested that Ted and co. had come to the end of their journeys at AFC Richmond, but a recent report claims that Ted Lasso Season 4 is in the works, and it’ll include some familiar faces.
Will there be a Ted Lasso Season 4?
Season 4 hasn’t officially been greenlit, but a report has alleged that Warner Bros. Television is picking up options on the cast and developing a writers room in hopes of getting it off the ground.
It was announced that Ted Lasso Season 4 was in the works in August 2024, with Deadline claiming that creatives were assembling the team in hopes of getting a fourth season greenlit. While nothing’s been confirmed just yet, it’s being said that they’re hoping to start production in early 2025.
It was originally believed that Season 3 would mark the end of the mainline series, as echoed by the cast on the show. Speaking to the publication in 2023, Jason Sudeikis said: “This is the end of this story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell, that we loved to tell.”
The show’s X account also seemed to confirm it was the last season, writing: “A few years ago I hopped on a plane with Coach Beard headin’ to a little town in London. Tonight we play our final match. It’s like what I say about the films of David Lynch. I can’t tell you what’s happenin’, but I sure as heck don’t want it to end.”
However, he added: “I think that we’ve set the table for all sorts of folks to get to watch the further telling of these stories. Again, I can’t help but take the question as flattery for what all of us that were working on the show have tried to do.
“It’s really kind of folks to even consider that because you never know what’s gonna happen when you make things. The fact that people want more, even if it’s a different avenue is lovely.”
Who’d be in it?
Nobody’s been officially announced as coming back for Ted Lasso Season 4, but Deadline reports that options on three major cast members have been picked up: Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, and Jeremy Swift, who play Rebecca Walton, Roy Kent, and Leslie Higgins.
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Again, this all comes from the Deadline report, and while Apple TV+ haven’t confirmed anything, it seems as though these three cast members would be back, should the show get greenlit once more.
On the other side of the pond, cast members with SAF-AFTRA contracts will need new deals, which includes Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, and Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso, Coach Beard, and Keeley Jones.)
While this is all speculation, it bodes well for the potential cast to return in full if Season 4 does get picked up. Keeping that in mind, we’d expect to see the likes of Nick Mohammed, Toheeb Jimoh, and others to come back, too.
Season 4 plot speculation
While there aren’t any official plot details, we’d expect Ted Lasso Season 4 to follow Richmond as they compete in the Champions League while Ted works on his relationship with Michelle back in the US.
For right now, Ted is staying in America. He missed his son throughout Season 3, and we can’t see him going back to the UK in a hurry.
The finale did leave enough routes open for another season, if not a spinoff: Richmond is going to create a women’s team, Roy is the new manager of the team, and Nate is back at the club.
Brendan Hunt told Sky News: “We’ve always seen it as a three-part thing and we’re coming up to the end of that. So, we definitely treated it like the end of that story. Whether or not people will be happy with that – the people are very unpredictable.
“I think there’s 20 spin-offs that we could do, but maybe we won’t do any of them. I don’t know. If we do them, I only hope that they are animated musicals.”
Mohammed, who plays Nate, also said: “I get nervous about the idea of a spinoff, especially because Ted Lasso has been such a hit, and everyone is so grateful for that. There’s always a danger with spinoffs, right? Not quite hitting the right note, but I don’t know. Let’s see.”
Ted Lasso Seasons 1-3 are available to stream on Apple TV+ now. For more, take a look at our guides to the Ted Lasso Season 3 soundtrack, the Ted Lasso filming locations, and learn how to make the Ted Lasso biscuits.
