Wolfsburg have named Bruno Labbadia as the club's new head coach, less than 24 hours after Martin Schmidt resigned from the post.
The 52-year-old has signed a deal through to summer 2019, and will take charge of first-team training for the first time on Tuesday afternoon.
"Bruno Labbadia is a very experienced coach, who has a proven track record in the Bundesliga," said Wolfsburg sporting director Olaf Rebbe.
Labbadia takes over a Wolfsburg side currently sat just a point above the relegation play-off zone after 23 matches. He is well versed in relegation battles, though, having steered Hamburg to safety via the play-offs as recently as May 2015.
"I feel rested and am really looking forward to working with my new team," said Labbadia, who has been out of work since losing his job at Hamburg for a second time in September 2016. His previous clubs include Bayer Leverkusen and Stuttgart.
Wolfsburg travel to current relegation play-off spot incumbents Mainz on Friday night (kick-off: 20:30CET/19:30GMT/14:30ET), in Labbadia's first game as coach.
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Martin Schmidt has been unlucky, fantastic coach with some really mediocre clubs that suffer from bad managers and even worse players. Mainz rewarded him for getting the team out of the relegation zone and into the Europa by selling the players that got them there, and giving him nothing to work with the next season. Sandro Schwarz has been a disaster at Mainz, who currently only have 3 or 4 decent players. The rest are rubbish rescued from football's bargain bin. You can't w8n like that regardless of who's coaching, but clearly Schwarz was no Schmidt. It's to bad...and Wolfsburg' s player cupboard is also bare. The team has no players to speak of that can really play well in the top flight regardless of whose coaching. They need to worry less about managers and more about getting players and specifically, players with the right attitude. Schmidt should have known he wouldn't get the support he needed there, I feel bad for the guy.