Ted Lassoseason 3 is almost here — and fans can hardly believe it!
The fan-favorite characters — including Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster), Keeley Jones (Juno Temple), Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) and Sam Obisanya (Toheeb Jimoh) — are seen writing on a piece of yellow paper in blue ink before each holding up their design to reveal the word: Believe.
As fans know, the “Believe” sign is quite important to the show as it’s what Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) hangs above his office door to inspire his AFC Richmond players to never give up.
At the end of the teaser, Ted and Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) walk into the locker room to see all of the Believe posters hung above each locker. The signs are strategically placed underneath a wall decal that reads “#We Are Richmond.”
In an emotional moment, Ted tells Coach Beard: “Well, if seeing is believing, I believe we’ve been seen.”
Notably missing from the teaser is AFC Richmond’s former kit man-turned-assistant coach Nate Shelley (Nick Mohammed).
As fans may recall, Nate’s friendship with Ted was burned to the ground in season 2. In the finale, fans saw “Nate the Great” storm off the pitch, tear down Ted’s “Believe” sign and begin his journey as head coach of West Ham United — a rival team of AFC Richmond.
“It was fun, in a sense that, as an actor, you relishan opportunity to try something different,” Mohammed, 42, previously told PEOPLE of his character’s shocking betrayal. “It was certainly challenging in that if I had a comfort area, it was in doing the slightly bumbling, awkward Nate.”
Though not much else is known of season 3’s plot just yet, Cristo Fernández, who plays AFC Richmond player Dani Rojas, previously told PEOPLE what viewers can expect for each of the beloved characters.
“I just know that this season, all thecharacters will have different resolutions, different moments,” he said.
Of course, there’s soccer to be played, and inspiration to be found, too. “I think the messages and the different topics we’re going to touch [on] are very powerful,” he added. “And there’s more football too, soccer. So I think people are going to be very happy.”
Goldstein previously toldThe Sunday Timesthat season 3 wasbeing written as the story’s endbecause the show was only intended to be a three-season storyline. “We are writing it like that. It was planned as three,” he shared, before joking, “Spoiler alert: everyone dies.”
While chatting withDeadline, EP and showrunner Bill Lawrence also discussed the future of the show.
“When we first pitched this particular story, we said this series was only going to be three seasons,” he explained. “And I would probably stay clean and say that even if Ted Lasso goes on, the story the writing staff has been telling had a beginning, middle and end for the first three seasons. And then it might veer off from that.”
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