Milan: Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Friday returned to AC Milan on a six-month contract promising to help rescue the struggling Serie A side's season.

"I'm coming back to a club I hugely respect and to the city of Milan I love," Ibrahimovic, 38, said on the club's website. "I'll fight together with my teammates to change the course of this season. I will do everything to make it happen." This will mark the Swede's second stint with AC Milan, seven years after he left the club for Paris Saint-Germain. He played at San Siro from 2010 to 2012 scoring 56 goals in 85 appearances and helping the former European giants win their 18th and last Serie A title in 2011. But he faces a stiff challenge with the club in 11th in Serie A and reeling from a 5-0 defeat by Atalanta, their heaviest loss in 21 years.