Don’t count out soccer’s most unlikely stars just yet. Over the weekend, Deadline reported that Ted Lasso season four may be on the horizon after all, now that Warner Bros. Television has picked up the options for three original cast members who had contracts under Equity, the UK’s acting union.

Hannah Waddingham, who plays AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton; Brett Goldstein, who plays footballer turned coach Roy Kent; and Jeremy Swift, who plays director of football operations Leslie Higgins, are all reportedly being contacted by Warner Bros. Television about returning to the show.

Once that trio is on board, according to Deadline, the next step would be securing cast members with SAG-AFTRA contracts, whose initial options have expired. That group would include cocreators/executive producers Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso and Brendan Hunt as Coach Beard, as well as Juno Temple as Keeley Jones. But Phil Dunster, who played reformed bad boy Jamie Tartt, may be unable to return to a fourth season due to commitments to a pair of other streaming shows: Prime Video’s The Devil’s Hour and Apple’s Surface.

But if those various cast members make their deals and the studio assembles a writers room, production on Ted Lasso season four could begin as early as 2025, Deadline writes. Vanity Fair has reached out to reps for the series for comment.

The May 2023 season three finale of Ted Lasso acted as a potential series finale, concluding with closure for most of the main characters. Ted returned to Kansas to be closer to his son and ex-wife; Rebecca and Keeley partnered to start an AFC Richmond women’s team; and Roy assumed his position as new manager of the AFC Richmond men’s squad.

And last March, ahead of the AppleTV+ comedy’s third season, Sudeikis confirmed to Deadline that a certain chapter of the series was indeed concluding. “This is the end of this story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell, that we loved to tell,” he said. “The fact that folks will want more and are curious beyond more than what they don’t even know yet—that being season three—it’s flattering.” He added, “Yeah, I think that we’ve set the table for all sorts of folks…to get to watch the further telling of these stories.”

Waddingham, however, has shared her hopes for more Ted Lasso with Vanity Fair, saying at the show’s season three premiere in Los Angeles: “It is the end of this particular story thread. You’ll know why once you see it.” At the same time, she continued, “I genuinely have no idea what’s next. I’m not sure Jason even knows what he wants to do, but I’d love to see a spin-off series with Keeley, Rebecca, and Higgins. There are so many characters that are beloved that it would be reasonable for them to do a spin-off. We will have to wait and find out.”