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Ted Lasso season 4 is now locked in for the summer of 2026, meaning that the show’s best joke yet is about to come to fruition. It seems Ted has decided to return to the UK after all, but this time he’ll be coaching a women’s soccer team, rather than AFC Richmond’s male squad in the Premier League.
At the same time, we’re hoping that season 4’s story allows Ted some time to return to his native United States this summer, given the global festival of football happening across North America between June and July. It’d be the perfect way to cap off the series if its eponymous hero plays a part in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Conversely, Ted Lasso is set to improve on its first three seasons precisely because Ted will be coaching a women’s team, expanding the scope for the kind of fish-out-of-water comedy on which the series thrives. It would be the ultimate irony if he missed out on the chance to coach in his home World Cup because of his new role.
Ted Lasso's Season 4 Release Window Is Officially Confirmed
Apple TV has now confirmed Ted Lasso’s season 4 release window, making official what was already widely assumed about when the show will be returning to our screens. It’s definitely going to drop in the summer of 2026, just over three years after season 3 ended with AFC Richmond just missing out on winning the Premier League.
Ted will be back in London for the sitcom’s fourth season, but this time he’ll be coaching a women’s football team. On the other hand, the season is expected to start with Ted in his home state of Kansas, just a stone’s throw from one of the stadiums hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in Kansas City, Missouri.
The FIFA World Cup Will Overlap With Ted Lasso Season 4
Custom image by Debanjana ChowdhuryWherever Ted is when it begins, we now know for sure that Ted Lasso season 4 will overlap with the World Cup. This tournament will be too big for the show to ignore, and we can hazard a guess that Ted will at the very least make reference to the fact that it’s happening.
More likely, though, the World Cup will find its way into one of the sitcom’s storylines somehow. Whether it’s Ted giving a pep talk to the U.S. men’s team, or simply going to watch a game, we should bank on the tournament appearing in the show one way or another.
Ted Lasso's World Cup Release Window Sets Up The Show's Best Joke
Ted Lasso’s best episodes have always hammed up the irony of an American football coach who knows nothing about soccer being hired as the manager of an elite English team. With this joke now wearing a little thin after three seasons, it makes sense that the sitcom has changed things up.
By giving Ted a women’s team to coach, Jason Sudeikis has pushed him even further out of his comfort zone. What’s more, with the men’s FIFA World Cup coming to Ted’s home country at the exact moment that Ted Lasso season 4 is released, Sudeikis can turn the show’s pivot towards women’s football into its best joke yet.
Just when Ted has finally been accepted as an elite men’s soccer coach, the World Cup gives the male iteration of the game mass exposure in the United States like never before. Yet, at this precise turning point in history, Ted Lasso will portray its title character stuck in the UK coaching a women’s team. You almost couldn’t write it.
Release Date August 14, 2020
Showrunner Bill Lawrence
English (US) ·