Having reached an agreement with the Hammers earlier this month, Julen Lopetegui, 57, will take over as West Ham’s new head coach. He will serve a two-year term with a three-year option.
Lopetegui hasn’t held a managerial position since leaving Wolves in August.
Moyes, who took over for a second stint at the club in December 2019 and won the Europa Conference League in 2023, was confirmed to be leaving West Ham at the end of the current campaign earlier this month.
After a dismal sequence of performances that saw the Hammers finish ninth in the Premier League and miss out on a fourth consecutive season in Europe, the 61-year-old Scot came under growing pressure.
Starting with the preseason on July 1st, Lopetegui will take on a formal position. Part of his duties will involve traveling to the United States for two weeks to play matches against Wolves and Crystal Palace.
Words of the new manager:
“I feel very happy, first of all, to be able to be part of the future of this big club,” he said.
“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.”
“I feel that we have a fantastic platform,”
“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.”
The former coach of Real Madrid and Spain won the Europa League with Sevilla in 2020. In November 2022, with Wolves at the bottom of the Premier League, he moved to Molineux.
He led them to a 13th-place result, although before to his resignation, he had grown dissatisfied with the club’s financial circumstances.
Lopetegui, a former goalkeeper, represented Spain once and played for Real Madrid and Barcelona.
