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Join today<\/a><\/p>\n \n Already a member? Warning: Spoilers for the Ted Lasso<\/a> season 4 finale follow.<\/p>\n Ted Lasso <\/a>star Brendan Hunt revealed that Jason Sudeikis<\/a> wanted Ted to step down from his role at AFC Richmond, and admitted that there was no guarantee the series<\/a> would return for a fifth season.<\/p>\n The Ted Lasso season four finale<\/a> aired on Wednesday and radically reshuffled the coaching staff at AFC Richmond. <\/p>\n Ted (Sudeikis), handed over his position as manager of the club\u2019s women\u2019s team, the Lady Greyhounds, to Alice Chilton (Tanya Reynolds), and instead became an assistant manager alongside Hunt\u2019s Coach Beard. Former Richmond player and coach Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein<\/a>), meanwhile, accepted a job as Chelsea\u2019s new manager, leaving the men\u2019s team without a head coach.<\/p>\n According to Hunt, who is also co-creator, executive producer and writer on the series, Ted\u2019s request was never intended as a last-minute reversal. \u201cThat was something Jason wanted to happen from the beginning of the writers\u2019 room,\u201d he told Variety. \u201cHe saw Ted stepping down as just kind of fundamental to what the season was going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n The first episode of the fourth season opens with a close-up of Ted\u2019s name badge identifying him as an \u201cassistant manager\u201d, a detail that returns as a bookend when Ted ends the season in the same position at Richmond. Hunt described the misdirection as \u201ca tiny little goose for the last moment\u201d, dispelling the idea for fans who believed Ted\u2019s season with the women\u2019s team was only a temporary detour.<\/p>\n The fourth season <\/a>was a surprise to fans as the series had been expected to end with its third season, with Ted returning to Kansas to be closer to his son Henry and Roy taking over as Richmond\u2019s manager. Apple renewed the series for a fourth season<\/a> last year, bringing Ted back to Richmond to coach the newly formed Lady Greyhounds and grappling with how much of his life he was willing to devote to football.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Henry thing is the main thing,\u201d Hunt said. \u201cThe whole idea of bringing Henry to London this time, he thought in his head, \u2018now I\u2019ll have much more time with Henry\u2019 \u2013 and it hadn\u2019t worked out that way. He\u2019s missed his games, and especially as he\u2019s reminded by the Employee of the Year plaque that his record-setting father bequeathed him unwittingly.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou can be a little too devoted to your work, and it can be deleterious to your health,\u201d Hunt added. \u201cHe just wants to make sure he\u2019s with Henry more.\u201d<\/p>\n Hunt explained that Ted\u2019s decision was also influenced by watching Alice during the season. \u201cShe was almost ready when we first met her, and now she\u2019s much more ready,\u201d he said, adding that Ted was \u201cjust ready to be support personnel at this time, and have more of his free time, and see what he can do with it\u201d.<\/p>\n Ted\u2019s new role is one of several major changes at Richmond. Roy\u2019s move to Chelsea provides the former player-turned-coach a new challenge just as he and Keeley Jones, played by Juno Temple<\/a>, are preparing to become parents. <\/p>\n Rebecca Welton<\/a> (Hannah Waddingham<\/a>) proposes to Matthijs (Matteo van der Grijn) and manages to keep majority ownership of Richmond after Mae Green (Annette Badland) leaves her stake in the club to Rebecca in her will<\/a>.<\/p>\n All the open threads leave the door wide open for another season, but, according to Hunt, \u201cthere\u2019s not yet any indication that we\u2019re going to get to answer those questions\u201d.<\/p>\n On whether there could be a further season, Hunt said Sudeikis \u201cplays the cards close to his chest, and I\u2019m not privy to whatever poker game that I hope is happening between the powers that be\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we\u2019ve always basically hoped we were coming back for more than one, but if it ends up just being one, then OK, that\u2019s fine. 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Ted Lasso hands over his position as manager of the Lady Greyhounds to Alice Chilton (Apple TV+)<\/p>\n![\"Nick](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ted-lasso.jpg\")
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Ted Lasso had been expected to end with season three, with Ted returning to Kansas to be closer to his son Henry (Apple TV+)<\/p>\n