(Reuters) -Osasuna have appointed Alessio Lisci as their new head coach, the LaLiga club announced on Monday.

The club announced Lisci as their new head coach on a two-year contract, luring him away from Segunda Division side Mirandes where he had engineered an against-the-odds run to the promotion play-off finals.

The appointment ends weeks of speculation about Vicente Moreno's successor. Moreno announced he would be leaving the club last month after being in charge for a year.

Lisci inherits a side that have firmly established themselves in Spain's top tier, with Osasuna narrowly missing out on European qualification after securing a respectable ninth place finish this season.

(Reporting by Tommy Lund in Gdansk, editing by Pritha Sarkar)