page_title: Claudio Pizarro
section_title: Return to Bayern Munich
hierarchical_section_title: Claudio Pizarro / Club career / Return to Bayern Munich
caption_attribution_description: English: Claudio Pizarro
context_page_description: Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio is a Peruvian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Mostly playing with Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen, he scored 337 goals in 872 games in his career.
  Pizarro started his career with Deportivo Pesquero in 1998, before moving to Alianza Lima. Then, he moved over to Germany playing for Werder Bremen. He has spent most of his career playing in the Bundesliga, having two spells at Bayern Munich and four at Werder Bremen, during which he won 17 trophies, 16 of which occurred at Bayern. These include the UEFA Champions League, six Bundesliga titles and six DFB Pokal cups. He had a short spell with Chelsea in 2007, scoring on his debut and being the first Peruvian to ever play for the club. On 23 October 2010, Pizarro set a new record for most goals scored by a foreign player in the Bundesliga, surpassing Giovane Élber's record of 132 in a game against Borussia Mönchengladbach. As of 18 May 2019, Pizarro is the fifth highest goalscorer in Bundesliga history with 197 goals and the all-time top scorer for Werder Bremen.
context_section_description: On 26 May 2012, Pizarro signed a one-year deal with his former German club, Bayern Munich. On 31 October 2012, Pizarro scored two goals against Kaiserslautern in the DFB-Pokal. In the Champions League game against Lille on 7 November, Pizarro scored a hat-trick within the first 33 minutes as Bayern crushed their French opponents 6–1. On 30 March 2013, Pizarro scored four goals, his first league goals of the Bundesliga campaign, and provided two assists for Bayern in a 9–2 win against Hamburg. On 10 April 2013, Pizarro came off the bench to score a 90th-minute goal against Juventus in the quarter-final of the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, which would end in a 0–2 win for Bayern (0–4 on aggregate). Pizarro scored twice more and provided a further two assists in Bayern's 6–1 hammering of Hannover 96 on 20 April. He finished the 2012–13 season with 13 goals in 28 appearances.
  On 19 April 2014, Pizarro scored in Bayern's 2–0 win over Eintracht Braunschweig, meaning he had scored against every Bundesliga club. During the 2013–14 season, he scored 10 goals in 17 Bundesliga appearances, a goal in two German Cup appearances, six Champions League appearances, a German Super Cup appearance, and a FIFA World Club Cup appearance.
  His contract wasn't renewed after the 2014–15 season, during which he managed just one goal in 17 appearances. He failed to score in any of his matches during the season.
caption: Pizarro during his second Bayern stint in 2014
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