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Ted Lasso Returns to Richmond to Coach a Women’s Team in Season Four

The 10-episode season reframes the series around AFC Richmond’s second-division Lady Greyhounds to test whether the show can tell a more authentic story about women’s football.

Overview

  • Apple TV+ released the first episode on Aug. 5, 2026, and will publish one new episode each Wednesday through Oct. 7 with some regions seeing episodes the evening before the listed date.
  • Season 4 centers Jason Sudeikis’s Ted Lasso as the connective thread as he comes back to coach the Lady Greyhounds, a second-division women’s side shown facing smaller budgets, cramped facilities, and thin institutional support.
  • Core cast members including Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, and Jeremy Swift return while new actors join the ensemble and Henry Lasso is recast with Grant Feely.
  • Early reviews are mixed, with many critics praising the women’s-team premise and Tanya Reynolds’s Alice as a standout, and others criticizing crowded callbacks, uneven tone, and doubts that the revival avoids past weaknesses; writers say they consulted players and experts such as Leah Williamson to improve authenticity.
  • The revival follows a widely celebrated three-season run and aims to raise the profile of women’s soccer on screen, and its future beyond this 10-episode run will likely depend on audience response and whether the season sustains its new focus.