Ted Lasso season 4: Everything you need to know about Apple TV show

By Joe Allen and Manisha Priyadarshini Updated May 2, 2026

After much speculation about whether our favourite coach would be returning, Ted Lasso is officially coming back for a fourth season, with a confirmed premiere date and a trailer already out. The show, which seemed to wrap up at the end of season 3, is now back for more, and many of the show’s main cast members are set to return for this new season.

While it’s been three years since we’ve heard from Ted and the gang, many people are naturally wondering what might be different about this new season and when we’ll get a chance to see it. Here’s everything you need to know about the new season.

Production began in July 2025, when Apple TV shared a first look at season 4, an image of Jeremy Swift (Leslie Higgins), Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Welton), Juno Temple (Keeley Jones), and Jason Sudeikis’s Ted Lasso sitting at what looks like an American diner.

“As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to ‘look before we leap,'” Sudeikis said in a press release at the time. “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.”

However, Sudeikis and the rest of the creative team behind the show were unsure whether the show would be back after season 3. Even Brett Goldstein once likened the idea of a fourth season to bringing a dead cat back to life.

Part of the reason it took so long to get a season 4 is that this show is a little bit of a soft reboot. It’s technically a continuation, but the show now has a new premise, and not all of the cast from the first three seasons will be back.

According to a synopsis for the new season, Ted will be returning to the United Kingdom yet again, and this time, he’ll be coaching a women’s soccer team.

“Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team,” the show’s synopsis explains. “Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.”

It would seem that this is the team that Keeley proposed to Rebecca at the end of the show’s third season.

Ted Lasso season 4 premieres on August 5, 2026, on Apple TV+, with new episodes dropping every Wednesday through October 7. That makes it a 10-episode season, arriving roughly three years after the season 3 finale, which dropped in May 2023.

The long gap between seasons was always going to be inevitable given the uncertainty around whether the show would return at all after season 3. In the end, the show’s popularity was too great to ignore, and the season 4 premise, with Ted coaching a women’s team, gave the creative team a fresh enough angle to justify bringing it back.

Last year, Apple released a brief clip of Ted, Keely, Rebecca, and Higgins eating at a booth to announce the start of production on season 4. Since then, a full teaser trailer dropped on April 28, 2026, giving fans their first proper look at the new season.

The trailer picks up right where you’d hope it would. Ted is back in Richmond, looking as earnest and slightly lost as ever. However, Season 4 finds Ted returning not to coach the Greyhounds, but to take charge of a women’s football team at AFC Richmond.

The trailer leans into that shift immediately, with a scene where a Richmond fan greets Ted warmly before adding, “Too bad you’re coaching a bunch of girls, ya wan*er.” Ted, of course, responds with exactly the kind of disarming warmth that made the show a hit in the first place.

We get to see many familiar faces back in the trailer, along with new ones. The season’s central theme appears to be about taking leaps of faith, where Ted and the new girls team learn to take chances they never thought they would. It’s very on-brand for a show that has always used sport as a vehicle for something more emotionally substantial.

The core cast is back alongside some new additions. Jason Sudeikis returns as Ted Lasso, with Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Welton), Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent), Juno Temple (Keeley Jones), Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard), and Jeremy Swift (Leslie Higgins) all confirmed back for the new season.

Joining the show are Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, and Abbie Hern, all in roles that have yet to be disclosed. The role of Ted’s son Henry has also been recast, with Grant Feely replacing Gus Turner. Henry had limited screen time across the first three seasons since he lived in the United States with his mother.

For season 4, the character is getting a considerably bigger role. Henry is now 12, has become a skilled soccer player, and has reportedly inherited some of his father’s quirks. Feely himself is no stranger to high-profile productions, having previously played young Luke Skywalker in Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+. It remains unclear whether Andrea Anders will return as Henry’s mother and Ted’s ex-wife, Michelle.

On the production side, Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein, and Jack Burditt are among the executive producers for the new season. Goldstein also serves as a writer alongside Leann Bowen, Sarah Walker, and Phoebe Walsh. Julia Lindon will write for season 4, with Dylan Marron serving as story editor.

Through its first three seasons, Ted Lasso took place entirely in the U.K., but it seems the show is shifting gears, at least to some extent, for season 4. Filming commenced in Kansas City, Missouri, which is Sudeikis’s hometown and also happens to be Ted’s. The production did clarify, though, that some additional photography would take place in London, so it seems the show is not abandoning its U.K. setting completely.

As you might remember, Ted returned home to coach his son’s soccer team at the end of season 3, and it seems season 4 will pick up with Ted back in Kansas City. Eventually, Ted will make the trip back across the Atlantic to coach the women’s football team at AFC Richmond.

The shift back to Richmond makes sense given that the women’s team concept was first teased at the end of season 3, when Keeley proposed the idea of an AFC Richmond women’s team to Rebecca.