Our First Look at 'Ted Lasso' Season 4 Feels Like We Never Left

Apple TV has released its first batch of images from the forthcoming return of Ted Lasso. Despite the sense of finality that was threaded through the series' Season 3 conclusion, it somehow still manages to feel almost like we never left.

Granted, the divisive third-season finale certainly felt like a series ending, with Ted heading home to Kansas and his family, Roy Kent as the coach of the AFC Richmond team, and rumblings that the franchise might be expanding into the women's game. But maybe we should always have known that Apple TV would never let its most successful critical hit (at least until Severance and Pluribus came along) ride off into the sunset so easily.

So, Ted's coming back. Not because there's any real narrative reason for him to do — in all honesty, it makes much more sense for a woman to be coaching the women's Richmond team — but because the show's called Ted Lasso.

(I guess Apple's not quite brave enough to pull a name change a la The Vampire Lestat.)

The specifics of why Ted leaves his life in Kansas (again) to return to England remain unclear, as is whether this set-up is anything beyond an attempt to recapture the glory days of the series' first season.

After all, it is pretty similar, all things considered — Ted's brought in to couch an what is most likely an upstart group of underrated misfits and teach them to be a real team together. Will it be full of heart and folksy charm? Undoubtedly. Will it tell us anything about these characters we haven't already seen? Who can say?

It's possible to argue that this return is, if nothing else, at least a chance at a do-over. An opportunity to fix some of season 3's biggest mistakes, like Roy and Keeley's break-up, or the decision to pair Rebecca off romantically with that random man she met after she fell into a canal in Amsterdam. Will that be worth everything else? Maybe. But maybe not.

Here's the Season 4 synopsis.

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

Alongside Sudeikis, original cast members Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Welton), Juno Temple (Keeley Jones), Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent), Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard), and Jeremy Swift (Leslie Higgins) are all returning.

New additions for Season 4 include Tanya Reynolds (The Decameron), Jude Mack (Such Brave Girls), Faye Marsey (Andor), Rex Hayes (35 Awr), Aisling Sharkey (Jurassic World: Dominion), Abbie Hern (My Lady Jane), and Grant Feely (Panhandle).

30 Rock's Jack Burditt joins the series as an executive producer for Season 4, alongside Sudeikis, Hunt, Goldstein, Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, and Bill Wrubel. Goldstein serves as writer with Leanna Bowen, Sarah Walker, and Phoebe Walsh, who will also serve as co-executive producers. Julia Lindon will write for Season 4, with Dylan Marron as story editor. Bill Lawrence also executive produces via his Doozer Productions, with Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer.

Ted Lasso Season 4 is currently in production and will premiere at a still-to-be-determined date in Summer 2026.