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Accurate SSM and RZSM forecasting at sub-seasonal scales would be valuable for agricultural water management and preparations. Currently, weather model-based soil moisture predictions are subject to large uncertainties due to inaccurate initial conditions and empirical parameterization schemes, while the data-driven machine learning methods have limitations in modeling long-term temporal dependences of SSM and RZSM because of the lack of considerations in the soil water process. Thus, here, we innovatively integrate the model-based soil moisture predictions from a sub-seasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) model into a data-driven stacked deep learning model to construct a hybrid SSM and RZSM forecasting framework. The hybrid forecasting model is evaluated over the Yangtze River Basin and parts of Europe from 1- to 46-day lead times and is compared with four baseline methods, including the support vector regression (SVR), random forest (RF), convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) and the S2S model. The results indicate substantial skill improvements in the hybrid model relative to baseline models over the two study areas spatiotemporally, in terms of the correlation coefficient, unbiased root mean square error (ubRMSE) and RMSE. The hybrid forecasting model benefits from the long-lead predictive skill from S2S and retains the advantages of data-driven soil moisture memory modeling at short-lead scales, which account for the superiority of hybrid forecasting. 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