West Ham United have confirmed the appointment of head coach Julen Lopetegui as successor to David Moyes.

Former Real Madrid and Spain coach Lopetegui will officially join West Ham from 1 July after they finished the 2023/24 season in ninth spot with 52 points.

“I feel very happy, first of all, to be able to be part of the future of this big club,” Lopetegui told West Ham TV. “We will try to put our stamp on the club.

“I feel that we have a fantastic platform. 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.