That’s a wrap. ‘Ted Lasso’ finishes filming in Kansas City. Back to London now?
After two weeks of filming in Kansas City, the cast and crew of “Ted Lasso” ended their stay here Thursday with a boisterous wrap party in a private karaoke suite at Offkey in Westport.
Video of the festivities shows the group singing “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath, an obvious tribute to the group’s lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, who died last week.
So now, Kansas City waits for its close-up.
The last bit of filming took place all day Wednesday at McKeever’s Market & Eatery in Lee’s Summit, where fans waited for hours outside the store in hopes of catching a glimpse of the action.
Ted Lasso, grocery store clerk?
At one point, a crew member took a little girl’s pink soccer ball into the store to get it autographed.
“You come to the store for milk but find Ted Lasso filming!” wrote one excited fan on Facebook.
Apple TV+ renewed its popular Emmy-winning series in March. At the end of Season 3 Coach Lasso, a former fictional Wichita State football coach, left British soccer behind to reunite with his young son and estranged wife in Kansas.
Details about how the story continues are under wraps, though clearly Kansas City will play a role. The next season, however, is expected to focus on a new AFC Richmond women’s soccer team. Most of the show is filmed in Richmond, a town in greater London.
The day after filming got underway in Kansas City on July 20 with Jason Sudeikis, who co-created the show and plays Coach Lasso, Apple TV+ shared a peek at the action inside Gates Bar-B-Q on Main Street
It revealed that British actors Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple and Jeremy Swift were in town. Brendan Hunt, who plays Coach Beard, has also been filming here.
So has child actor Grant Feely. He has replaced Gus Turner, the young actor who played Coach Lasso’s son, Henry, in the first three seasons, according to Deadline.. The new storyline reportedly needed an actor who can play soccer, suggesting a spotlight for Henry’s skill on the pitch.
Feely is known for playing young Luke Skywalker in the Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
The show, working with a local production crew and background actors who answered a local casting call, covered quite a bit of ground around the metro, all on the Missouri side of the state line.
(Will Missouri be a stand-in for Kansas, Coach Lasso’s home state? Temple, who plays Keeley Jones in the show, was clearly wearing Dorothy-inspired wardrobe at Gates.)
Fans spied film equipment outside Mason Elementary School in Lee’s Summit a few days ago.
After two days on filming on the Country Club Plaza, the show took over a suburban home in a Blue Springs neighborhood where neighbors were allowed to take photos of anything but the actual filming.
Sudeikis and his colleagues also filmed at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
The professional and amateur soccer scene in Kansas City, known as the “Soccer Capital of America,” got its turn in front of the cameras, too.
Paparazzi photos published in a British tabloid caught filming underway last week at CPKC Stadium, home of the KC Current women’s soccer team. The team would not comment on what transpired there.
But one Current and “Ted Lasso” fan who said she participated in 10-plus hours of filming at the stadium in the Midwestern heat saw herself in those paparazzi pics. She enthusiastically posted on Facebook: “I WAS THERE.”
One photo showed two players on the pitch who appeared to be wearing the Current’s teal-colored kits, but the women did not appear to be team members.
The new season has six new cast members, some of whom are expected to portray players on AFC Richmond’s new women’s team.
The show also filmed at Swope Soccer Village in Swope Park which has nine soccer fields and a championship field that seats 1,500.
Sudeikis visited the facilities over the Mother’s Day weekend in May, taking photos with excited young soccer players and their parents. The next day he and Hunt attended a Current game and led the crowd in the traditional pre-game chant.
As Sudeikis and the cast moved around town, fans kept tabs of their whereabouts on social media. But after hours, celebrity watchers in Kansas City, who are known for aggressively protecting the privacy of stars who come here, called each other out for sharing too much. (Just ask Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift about that.)
So information about how the cast spent its downtime is limited, other than a rumor that Waddingham was seen dining at Lidia’s Italian restaurant. When one fan posted a surreptitious photo of Sudeikis and Hunt hanging out at a bar, commenters warned them to not share the location.
The mother of a Worlds of Fun worker, though, did share photos of Sudeikis, Waddingham and a large group of children visiting Worlds of Fun over the weekend. Sudeikis’ son, Otis, appeared to be with him.
The cast’s only public appearance away from the film sets came at the Mumford & Sons concert last week at Azura Amphitheater in Bonner Springs, Kansas.
Lead singer Marcus Mumford, who knows Sudeikis from the actor’s days on “Saturday Night Live,” co-wrote the “Ted Lasso” theme song.
Fans who hoped to see Sudeikis on stage with his buddy got their wish when he, Hunt, Waddingham and Temple joined the British rockers on stage to perform the song.
“Ted Lasso” premiered during the pandemic in August 2020 and won 13 Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series, before the final episode aired in May 2023.
No premiere date for Season 4 has been announced. But with filming beginning in the summer, it’s not expected to be this year.
That gives “Ted Lasso” newbies time to join the team since all three seasons are now streaming on Apple TV+.
This story was originally published August 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM.
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