‘Ted Lasso’ Is Back — Season 4 Returns This Summer with Jason Sudeikis Coaching a Women’s Soccer Team

Do you believe? “Ted Lasso,” Apple TV‘s hit comedy series starring Jason Sudeikis, is back, and Apple has announced that Season 4 will return this summer 2026.

Apple confirmed “Ted Lasso” and Sudeikis would return last March after it looked like we heard the final whistle on the series, but the show is currently in production, and Apple shared a few first look images as well. What’s more, the main cast of regulars are now all confirmed to return, including Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, and Jeremy Swift, all of whose roles were up in the air last we heard an update.

In Season 4, Ted returns to Richmond, but this time he’ll be coaching a second division women’s football team. It’s a premise that was teased at the end of Season 3 and could’ve made for a viable spinoff with or without Sudeikis and the rest of the cast. With that new football club, though, comes an entirely new cast of characters. New additions to the cast include Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsey, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern, and Grant Feely.

The history and trajectory of “Ted Lasso” is fascinating. The series started as the little show that could, a goofy premise based on of all things a character from an NBC Sports sketch played before an actual game. The show’s charm and niceness turned it into a huge Emmy winner for its first season. It became a behemoth after that, exploding in popularity and getting bigger and broader and more tearjerking by its second season, which managed to repeat its Emmy win for Outstanding Comedy Series. Its third season started to lose a lot of its critical cache, and it didn’t win for what appeared to be its final season. The show though walked away with 13 Emmys in its run.

As to why it’s returning? “Ted Lasso” is still consistently among Apple TV‘s top-viewed series, frequently in its Top 10 (or five or three) even years after it ended. And even though Apple TV doesn’t have near the reach as some of its streaming contemporaries, “Ted Lasso” was still ranking among the top original streaming programs of the year via Nielsen when it was at its prime.

Jack Burditt, an Emmy winner on “Nobody Wants This,” “Modern Family,” “30 Rock,” is coming aboard Season 4 as an executive producer as part of a new overall deal with Apple TV. Sudeikis stars and executive produces alongside Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, and Bill Wrubel. Brett Goldstein serves as writer and executive producer alongside Leanne Bowen. Sarah Walker and Phoebe Walsh will serve as writers and producers for season four, and Sasha Garron co-produces. Julia Lindon will write for Season 4, and Dylan Marron will serve as story editor.

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. The series was developed by Sudeikis, Lawrence, Kelly, and Hunt as based on a character from an NBC Sports sketch.