Ted Lasso: Season 4 Confirmed

Hooray! Season 4. What Ted Lasso Fans Have Been Waiting For

For nearly two years we have been tapping our ‘Believe’ signs and hoping for season 4.  Now Jason Sudiekis has confirmed that the award-winning show will be back. This time, the focus will be on a women’s football team.  “We’re writing season four now. That’s the official word. Ted’s coaching a women’s team,” Sudeikis said on the podcast New Heights.

Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, confirmed his delight.  "Ted Lasso has been nothing short of a juggernaut, inspiring a passionate fan base 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."

Looking objectively, a show about a women’s football team was always likely. It is hard to imagine a more powerful real-life underdog story.  Women were banned from the sport for more than fifty years until 1971. But the Women’s World Cup in 2023 changed everything, with ticket sales and viewing figures breaking global records. Women were finally seen in a cultural space they had long been denied.

That was clearly not lost on sports fans Sudiekis and Brendan Hunt.Positive messages for women are central tenets of Ted Lasso, and there’s even a hint towards the show’s interest in women’s football in the very first episode of the first season when Ted watches schoolgirl, Shannon Hayes, single-handedly take on a group of boys on Richmond Green and dribbling the ball away from them. “Sometimes the best way to stick it to the man is to go right through his legs,” Ted remarks to Coach Beard.

Bring it on.  Ted Lasso has often been described as a great big warm hug.  We need that, now more than ever.  Even Channing Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros admitted she felt the same way. “If ever there was a show the world needed more of right now, it would be Ted Lasso.  We — along with countless fans around the globe — have been rooting for another season, and it is an incredible feeling to be able to say, ‘Yes, it’s happening!’”