West Ham United Confirm Julen Lopetegui As Club's New Manager

The 57-year-old Spaniard replaces David Moyes, who left his role at the London Stadium at the end of this season.

This will be Lopetegui's second job in the Premier League, having worked for half-a-season at Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 2022/2023 campaign.

Lopetegui has signed a two-year contract with the option of a third.

"I feel that we have a fantastic platform," Lopetegui said.

"I think the last few years have been very good years to have this base, of course, but my ambition as a coach is always to be better and better, to achieve more and bigger aims and to encourage and improve the players, the team, and to compete because football is about this - to compete. We are very ambitious about this.

"I am where I want to be. I am here because I want to be here and for us it was a fantastic day when we closed our agreement here because we our commitment is 100 per cent to be here.

"We had other opportunities but I am very happy that West Ham chose me because I chose West Ham too, so we are really happy about this.

"We came here with the idea and the thought to make a big, big noise. That's why we came here, and we are excited by this challenge. Of course, we are going to do our best to help the club and the team to achieve to achieve the best level and to achieve our aims. I assure the fans that they are going to be key in all our achievements."

Lopetegui counts FC Porto, Real Madrid and Sevilla, where he won the Europa League in 2020, among his former clubs.