50 Fun Facts About Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso is hired by AFC Richmond after coaching college football in which city?

Wichita. In the show he has just coached the Wichita State Shockers to a title, though the real university dropped its football team after the 1986 season.

Ted Lasso debuted in 2013 in Premier League commercials for which US broadcaster?

NBC. The network had just bought the Premier League's American rights and cast Sudeikis as a clueless coach hired by Tottenham; the promos went viral years before anyone planned a series.

Which sitcom veteran teamed up with Jason Sudeikis in 2017 to turn Ted Lasso into a series?

Bill Lawrence. The Scrubs creator and Sudeikis played pickup basketball together, the old promo character came up one night, and Lawrence read the script and signed on.

On which streaming service did Ted Lasso premiere on 14 August 2020?

Apple TV+. It ordered the comedy straight to series in October 2019, days before the service itself launched, and released the first three episodes together.

Why does Rebecca Welton hire Ted Lasso to manage AFC Richmond in season one?

To ruin the club. It was the one thing her cheating ex-husband Rupert loved, and she had just won it in the divorce; when she finally confesses, Ted forgives her on the spot.

Ted Lasso's snarling Richmond captain is modelled mainly on which former footballer?

Roy Keane. Co-creator Brendan Hunt has confirmed the Irish hard man as the model, and Brett Goldstein, hired as a writer, only won the part by sending in a self-taped audition.

Which newspaper does reporter Trent Crimm write for when he first meets Ted Lasso?

The Independent. He announces it before every question, loses the job in season two for telling Ted who leaked his panic attack, and comes back to write a book about the club.

In Ted Lasso, what does Ted bring Rebecca each morning that eventually wins her over?

Homemade shortbread biscuits. Rebecca loves them so much she orders Higgins to track down the bakery, only for the episode to reveal that Ted bakes them himself.

In Ted Lasso, what do Ted, Beard, Nate and Higgins call the support group they form in season one?

The Diamond Dogs. The four first convene to pick over Ted's night with Sassy, and their next case is Roy Kent, who grudgingly asks them what to do about Keeley.

Beating Rupert at darts, Ted Lasso quotes 'Be curious, not judgmental' and credits which American poet?

Walt Whitman. Ted says he saw the line painted on a wall, but fact-checkers have never found it in anything Whitman wrote.

Which club is Jamie Tartt on loan from when Ted Lasso begins?

Manchester City. Rebecca quietly ends the loan mid-season, and on the final day it is Jamie's unselfish pass for his parent club that sends Richmond down.

Jamie Tartt appears on which reality dating show at the start of season two of Ted Lasso?

Lust Conquers All. Jamie walks out on his club to do the Love Island spoof, partly to spite his father, gets voted off, and comes home to find that no team wants him.

In Ted Lasso, psychologist Dr Sharon Fieldstone is hired after which incident traumatises Dani Rojas?

Accidentally killing the team mascot. Earl the greyhound darts across the goal after a bird just as Dani strikes a penalty, and the guilt leaves him unable to score at all.

Ted Lasso's 'Football is life' striker Dani Rojas comes from which country?

Mexico. So does the man who plays him: Cristo Fernández was a young footballer in Guadalajara until a knee injury turned him towards acting.

In Ted Lasso, what is the name of Mae's pub, where Richmond's supporters gather?

The Crown and Anchor. The exterior is a real pub, The Prince's Head on Richmond Green, renamed for the cameras, and local tours now stop there for fans of the show.

Which real stadium doubles as AFC Richmond's home ground, Nelson Road?

The training ground and Rebecca's office are at Hayes & Yeading's SkyEX Community Stadium; Craven Cottage stood in for Goodison Park in season one.

In Ted Lasso, which 1980s hit does Rebecca sing in place of a eulogy at her father's funeral?

Never Gonna Give You Up. Her parents loved the Rick Astley song; when Rebecca's voice gives out after a few lines, Ted picks it up and the whole church joins in.

Season two of Ted Lasso grew by two episodes: the Christmas special and which other standalone story?

'Beard After Hours'. The streamer asked for twelve episodes after the writers had mapped out ten, so they built two that could slot in anywhere: Christmas, and one long night out for the coach.

Which AFC Richmond player secretly dates Rebecca in season two of Ted Lasso?

Sam. The two match anonymously on Bantr, the dating app that sponsors the club's shirts, and only find out who they have been flirting with when they meet for dinner.

Which country does AFC Richmond winger Sam Obisanya come from in Ted Lasso?

Nigeria. When Sam learns the club's airline sponsor belongs to an oil firm polluting his homeland, he tapes over the logo on his shirt, and the whole team follows.

In Ted Lasso, who anonymously leaks the story of Ted's panic attack to the press?

Nate Shelley. Convinced that Ted takes the credit for his tactics, the assistant coach feeds the story to Trent Crimm, who texts Ted a warning and tells him who talked.

In Ted Lasso, which club does Rupert buy after losing AFC Richmond to Rebecca?

West Ham United. He unveils the purchase at the end of season two and hands the manager's job to Nate, turning Richmond's former kit man into their most personal rival.

Zava, the eccentric star striker of Ted Lasso's third season, is based on which real footballer?

Zlatan Ibrahimović. Zava walks out on Juventus, joins Richmond on a whim after Rebecca corners him in a men's room, and quits football altogether halfway through the season.

Which tactical philosophy does Ted Lasso bring to Richmond in the season three episode 'The Strings That Bind Us'?

Total Football. Ted thinks he has invented it, watching an old Chicago Bulls game on a restaurant wall in Amsterdam, the very city where the system was perfected half a century earlier.

In Ted Lasso's third season, which Richmond player comes out to his teammates after a fan's homophobic abuse?

Colin Hughes. Isaac, who has only just learned his friend's secret, charges into the stand at the fan and is sent off; Colin then tells the dressing room himself and plays his best game of the season.

Which real Premier League manager plays himself in Ted Lasso's third season?

Pep Guardiola. He appears in 'Mom City' as the losing manager on the day Richmond finally beat the club that had relegated them and then thrashed them at Wembley.

Where do Coach Beard and Jane get married in the final episode of Ted Lasso's third season?

Stonehenge. Beard fakes an attack of appendicitis to get off the plane home, stays in England with Jane, and marries her in a pagan ceremony among the stones.

Where does AFC Richmond finish in the Premier League at the end of Ted Lasso's third season?

Second. They win their last game with a set play Nate once drew up, but the leaders win as well, so Richmond's best season ever ends one place short of the title.

In Ted Lasso's third-season finale, Rebecca sells 49 percent of AFC Richmond to whom?

The club's fans. She had been ready to sell the whole club once Ted said he was leaving; instead Mae and the regulars from her pub end up as part-owners.

Which stadium's Ray Wilkins memorial banner was digitally altered to read 'Roy' for Ted Lasso, prompting an apology?

Stamford Bridge. Chelsea supporters had paid for the tribute to their late midfielder, and co-owner Todd Boehly apologised to them and to the Wilkins family, saying the filming deal predated him.

Ted Lasso's first season drew 20 Emmy nominations, breaking the freshman-comedy record held by which show?

Glee. Its 19 nominations had stood since 2010, and the show that beat it had begun life as a joke character in a pair of football adverts.

Which guest star won an Emmy for playing Ghanaian billionaire Edwin Akufo in Ted Lasso?

Sam Richardson. The Detroit-born comic, whose mother is Ghanaian, won for Akufo's return in season three, where the billionaire answers a rebuff by pelting a boardroom with food.

The Ted Lasso cast visited the White House in March 2023 to help promote what cause?

Mental health. Ted's panic attacks and his sessions with Dr Sharon had run through two seasons, so the Bidens invited the cast just as the third began.

Which sportswear brand replaced the invented Verani Sports as AFC Richmond's kit maker for Ted Lasso's third season?

Nike. The swoosh first showed up on a Richmond shirt in a teaser tweet in 2022, and when the season began the company put the fictional club's real shirt on sale.

Nick Mohammed, who plays Nate in Ted Lasso, originally auditioned for which other role?

Leslie Higgins. The producers gave Higgins to Jeremy Swift and asked Mohammed to read for Nate instead, a part he almost turned down for fear of being too busy with his own show.

In Ted Lasso, which character is Rebecca's goddaughter and the daughter of her old friend Sassy?

Nora. The teenager shadows her godmother at work for a day, and Rebecca talks it over with her before standing up to the club's sponsor.

In Ted Lasso, Richmond's reserve left-back Gareth Canterbury, from Slough, is a nod to which British sitcom?

The Office. The writers stitched him together from Gareth Keenan and Tim Canterbury, who worked side by side at a Slough paper merchant, and named a teammate after two football commentators.

In Ted Lasso's third season, Rebecca shames a room of club owners into rejecting what plan?

A breakaway Super League. Edwin Akufo wants Europe's richest clubs and dearer tickets; Rebecca tells the owners the game belongs to working people, and they walk away from him.

Ted Lasso's Amsterdam episode takes its title from which Van Gogh subject?

Sunflowers. On his free night in the city Ted wanders into the Van Gogh Museum, where the painter's sunflower canvases set him thinking of home.

In Ted Lasso's third season, Richmond's goalkeeper renames himself first Van Damme and then what?

Zorro. It is what Ted had called him all along, unable to pronounce Zoreaux, and it finally fits when a broken nose leaves the goalkeeper playing in a mask.

Which team does Ted Lasso return to England to coach in the show's fourth season?

AFC Richmond's women's team. Rebecca, Keeley and Higgins fly out to recruit him from a job in a grocery store, and he moves back to London with his son and his ex-wife.

Which club does Jamie Tartt join before Ted Lasso's fourth season?

FC Barcelona. With his Richmond days behind him, he turns up in season four only as a guest, back in London to launch his own brand of vodka.

In the opening episode of Ted Lasso's fourth season, Rebecca and two colleagues fly to which US city to find Ted?

Kansas City. It is Jason Sudeikis's own home patch, and the cast filmed there in 2025, eating at Gates Bar-B-Q and shooting scenes at a Kansas City Current match.

In Ted Lasso, Ted's advice to a player who has just made a mistake is to 'be' which creature?

A goldfish. Ted's reasoning is that the fish forgets everything within moments, and the line follows the show to the last scene of its original run, where he says it to his own son.

In season two of Ted Lasso, what job does the newly retired Roy Kent try before joining Ted's coaching staff?

TV pundit. His sweary honesty on Sky Sports is a hit, but watching Richmond from the studio one Saturday he walks off the set and heads for the ground to coach.

In which season one episode of Ted Lasso does Ted sign his divorce papers and hear the club's owner sing karaoke?

'Make Rebecca Great Again'. The away trip to Everton falls on her old wedding anniversary; she stuns the karaoke bar, and Ted has a panic attack before he finally signs.

In Ted Lasso, Coach Beard meets his on-off girlfriend Jane through which game?

Chess. He brings Jane to the club's charity gala and the pair spend the evening playing a game in their heads, with no board, until she gives up and goes dancing.

Which instrument does jazz enthusiast Leslie Higgins play in Ted Lasso?

Double bass. On the squad's free night in Amsterdam he takes the young kit man to a jazz club and stuns him by being called up to play with the band.

What is the name of the restaurant Sam Obisanya opens in Ted Lasso's third season?

Ola's. Sam names it for his father, and when a politician's supporters wreck the place over one of his tweets, he arrives to find the whole squad already there repairing it.

In Ted Lasso, defender Jan Maas's habit of brutal honesty is put down to his being what?

Dutch. After one defeat he calmly tells the dressing room that he made no mistakes but Colin did, and the squad learns to hear it as honesty rather than insult.