Ted LassoIs Coming Back! Jason Sudeikis Set to Reprise His Beloved Role for Long-Awaited Season 4

Mar. 15, 2025

AFC Richmond is getting the team back together!

“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. “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.”

Although details about the plot — and release date — of season 4 are being kept under wraps for now, several new members of the show’s creative team have been announced, including executive producer Jack Burditt (whose credits includingNobody Wants ThisandModern Family).

Brett Goldstein(who plays player-turned assistant coach Roy Kent) will also return as writer and executive producer, along with fellow EPsBrendan Hunt(who plays Coach Beard), Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, Bill Wrubel and Leanne Bowen.

Until this announcement, the future ofEmmy-winning serieshad been up in the air — with many of the show’s key players unsure if the show would even be returning for another season.

“I don’t know,” she toldEntertainment Weeklyin May 2023. “None of us know. I don’t even know if Jason knows. If he does, he is a sly dog.”

Rumors continued to swirl when Sudeikis said that “was just the way [they] conceived"the show during an appearance on theTodayshow in July 2021.

However, Hunt shared in March 2023 that “it’s not necessarily the end of the series.”

“It’s just likely the end of this story because we always saw it as a three-part thing,” the actor explained when speaking toDeadline. “We never even knew for sure we’d be able to tell all three parts — and suddenly, here we are. So, there will be some type of closure to this beat but closure is not necessarily the end.”

Goldsteinalso jokinglyput forth a season 4 plot suggestionwhen speaking to theSunday Timesback in 2023, quipping: “Five of the lead characters die in the end. I think one of the reasons it’s like, ‘Is this the final season?’ is because it depends on whether Jason is open to doing ghost Ted.”

“I have pitched him this and he said he’d think about it but I’m not sure how Apple will feel about the idea,” he continued. “I think what we’ve done as a creative team is constantly surprising people and I don’t think anyone thinks season 4 will have a ghost Ted haunting the lockers.”

In August 2024, co-creatorBill LawrencetoldColliderthefuture of the show was dependent on Sudeikisafter dismissing the season 4 rumors as “groupthink.” Overall, he said, “Whatever Jason feels like doing and whatever his decision is, we’re all down with it.”

Lawrence noted that the actor has to make sacrifices to film the series as it mainly follows an English soccer team and is filmed in London. Therefore, thefather of twohas to be away from his children for long periods of time during production.

“Not only is he the star, he’s the head writer, and he’s also the dude whose life just has to be completely overhauled and moved to a foreign country with young children,” the co-creator said at the time, adding that “it’s a big deal.”

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