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YOGI BERRA, THE Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player and manager, once famously said “It ain’t over til it’s over.” You can apply that to a lot of things in life—meaning, in essence, hey, don’t give up on something even if it doesn’t look particularly likely—but it also tends to ring particularly true in sports. Think about all the underdog-turned-champion movies you’ve seen. Hell, think about the New York Knicks coming back from down 29 to beat the San Antonio Spurs in game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals. Just because something feels over doesn’t mean it is.
Yogi’s famous words have proven true for another particularly famous coach, albeit one who’s not necessarily a real person: Ted Lasso. For all intents and purposes, it felt like a goodbye when we last saw Apple TV’s signature mustachioed mensch, played by Jason Sudeikis, at the end of season 3. The story of Ted, a football coach with a heart of gold who rejects toxic masculinity and prioritizes his own mental health, seemed to come to a rational close after three seasons of helping everyone around him at AFC Richmond become a better person (and, you know, leaving England and moving back to Kansas).
But to quote another great American by the name of Julian Casablancas, “The end has no end.” Ted Lasso was over, yes, when its third season ended in 2023. And for a while, that was the end. The show was over. But that “end” was short-lived, as it was decided less than half a decade later for the show to return, and for Ted to spread his infectious charm to a new group of targets: a newly formed AFC Richmond women’s team.
And so makes way for the premise of Ted Lasso season 4. What happens when our Good Guy-in-Chief is brought into his old stomping grounds for a new task when that task involves doing something he’s never done before? The fourth season tackles similar ground to past seasons in terms of sports and life at large, but Sudeikis also makes way to cover the world of women’s sports in a manner that not many TV comedies (and certainly not any at the scale of one of Apple TV’s biggest, Emmy-winning hits) have before. Sudeikis himself is a noted fan of women’s sports (appearing often at WNBA games), and is a co-creator of Lasso, so clearly this is a subject he cares about and wants to shed even more light on.
“I think sports are great metaphors for family, for ensemble,” Sudeikis told Men’s Health back in 2021. “When you have different people with perhaps different goals, sometimes they’re in opposition, sometimes they’re in harmony, and trying to get a group of people all facing the same direction, and rowing at the same time, in the same way, is challenging. And in those challenges there’s a lot of opportunity for comedy and drama.” Clearly, he believes there’s untapped potential in this new direction for more of that comedy and drama.
The Lasso magic is what it is. If you’re a fan of what the show has given you in the previous seasons, you’ll likely keep having a good time here. It’s not a show that’s going to frustrate you or have you on edge—it’s a show that’s going to make you feel good for 30 to 50 minutes a week. And sometimes we need that!
Below, we’ve gathered all the information you need to make sure you don’t miss a single episode of Ted Lasso season 4.
When is the next episode of Ted Lasso season 4 coming out?
The next episode of Ted Lasso will officially come out on Wednesday, August 12. But as with all Apple TV shows, it’ll release a bit early the night prior. So if you’re eager, keep an eye out for the next episode on the evening of Tuesday, August 11.
How many episodes of Ted Lasso season 4 are left?
The fourth season of Ted Lasso will be 10 episodes in total, with episodes rolling out on a weekly basis. That means there are still nine more weeks—and nine episodes of Ted figuring out how to coach a women’s team—remaining in the show’s season 4 run.
Here’s the complete release schedule for Apple TV’s Ted Lasso season 4:
Episode 1, “Home” – Now streaming as of August 5
Episode 2, “Curioser and Curioser!” – Streaming on August 12
Episode 3, “Richmond’s Got Talent” – Streaming on August 19
Episode 4, “Greyhound’s Day Off” – Streaming on August 26
Episode 5 – Streaming on September 2
Episode 6 – Streaming on September 9
Episode 7 – Streaming on September 16
Episode 8 – Streaming on September 23
Episode 9 – Streaming on September 30
Episode 10 – Streaming on October 7
Evan is the culture editor for Men’s Health, with bylines in The New York Times, MTV News, Brooklyn Magazine, and VICE. He loves weird movies, watches too much TV, and listens to music more often than he doesn’t.
