{"id":574928,"date":"2026-07-30T05:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574928\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:20:36","slug":"ted-lasso-tackles-womens-football-in-season-four-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574928\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Lasso tackles women&#8217;s football in season four trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Sudeikis&#8217; Ted Lasso is taking on coaching a women&#8217;s football team in the new season four trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The Apple TV series follows the American football coach as he moves to England to manage a British football &#8220;soccer team&#8221;, AFC Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>The third season, which was widely believed to be the series&#8217; last, ended with Ted moving back home to the US.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(L-R) Brendan Hunt, Jason Sudeikis, and Tanya Reynolds in Ted Lasso\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024c50c-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n(L-R) Brendan Hunt, Jason Sudeikis, and Tanya Reynolds in season four<\/p>\n<p>However, he has now returned in the new trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The one-minute-long trailer kicks off with Ted back in the clubroom.<\/p>\n<p>He sees that his &#8216;Believe&#8217; sign, which he used to inspire players and the coaching squad, has been taped back up on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>He is then welcomed by former-player-turned-assistant-coach Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) who tells Ted it is &#8220;good to see him&#8221; again before they embrace.<\/p>\n<p>A series of clips of the rest of the main cast are shown, including Brendan Hunt as Coach Willis Beard tearing up a dancefloor, Hannah Waddingham&#8217;s Rebecca Welton sitting at her desk, as well as Juno Temple as Keeley Jones and Jeremy Swift as Leslie Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer, which is set to Mumford &amp; Sons&#8217; song Run Together, also introduces Tanya Reynolds as one of the coaching staff who is hired to help run the club&#8217;s new women&#8217;s football team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The coaches take training in Ted Lasso season 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024c540-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe official synopsis for the upcoming season teases: &#8220;Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women&#8217;s football team&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The team is then shown posing together for a photo before taking to the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>However, one of the players leaves Ted and Coach Beard bewildered as she pushes back against their catchphrase that &#8220;football is life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Standing on the pitch with the pair, she tells them: &#8220;No, life is so much more than football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ted replies: &#8220;It&#8217;s not as catchy, but, true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The official synopsis for the upcoming season teases: &#8220;Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women&#8217;s football team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After season three of Ted Lasso concluded in 2023, it was announced in March 2025 that the series would be returning.<\/p>\n<p>However, Goldstein, who is also a writer on the show, had previously said the series had been &#8220;planned as three&#8221;, while Sudeikis told US entertainment trade publication Deadline before the season three premiere that it was &#8220;the end of the story we wanted to tell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Lasso has received 61 Emmy nominations in total and won 13, with Sudeikis picking up the Lead Actor in a Comedy Series award in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The series was developed by Sudeikis, Hunt, Bill Lawrence, and Joe Kelly, and is based on the pre-existing format and characters from NBC Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Season four of Ted Lasso will be streaming from 5 August on Apple TV.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press Association<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/television\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for more television news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Sudeikis&#8217; 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