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Apple TV+ Debuts Ted Lasso Season 4 Featuring Women’s Team

8/5/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Apple TV+ released “Ted Lasso” season 4, sending coach Ted Lasso to England to lead a women’s team.
Rebecca and staff travel to Kansas to recruit the coach for a women’s second-division team.
The series has won 13 Emmy Awards and logged 16.9 billion U.S. viewing minutes in 2023.
President Joe Biden invited the cast to the White House in 2023 to discuss mental-health awareness.

History

Historical Context

The 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup in the United States involved 16 national teams, each registering 20-player squads with at least two goalkeepers. U.S. coach Tony DiCicco led the hosts, while Germany’s Tina Theune-Meyer, Korea’s Myong Dong-chan, Norway’s Per-Mathias Høgmo and Japan’s Satoshi Miyauchi coached other teams. That tournament’s exposure underpins Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” season 4 focus on a women’s club.

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Story summary

Apple TV+ released “Ted Lasso” season 4, sending coach Ted Lasso to England to lead a women’s team.
Rebecca and staff travel to Kansas to recruit the coach for a women’s second-division team.
The series has won 13 Emmy Awards and logged 16.9 billion U.S. viewing minutes in 2023.
President Joe Biden invited the cast to the White House in 2023 to discuss mental-health awareness.

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