Career
He had his breakthrough season in 2012-2013, which led to Dynamo Moscow inserting a €19 million release clause into his contract. He has been linked with a winter move to Arsenal. He made his debut for the senior Football Club Dynamo Moscow team on 4 October 2008 – Dynamo was decimated by injuries and was losing to Football Club Saturn Moscow Oblast 0-1 at the halftime when Kokorin came on as a substitute.
He became the youngest player to score a goal for Dynamo in the Russian Premier League (17 years 199 days).
He scored a winning goal in a 1:0 victory over Football Club Lokomotiv Moscow in his second game as a starter on 3 November 2008. At the end of the 2012-2013 season he entered the Top 33 players list as the Number.
1 Left Striker. On 4 July 2013 Kokorin agreed personal terms with Anzhi Makhachkala after the club had triggered his €19 million release clause.
However, before he could play a single official game for Anzhi (he was out of commission due to injury at the time of his signing), on 6 August, following restructuring of Anzhi at business level, the whole squad was put up for sale, including new signing Kokorin. The next day, Yuri Zhirkov, Igor Denisov and Kokorin were all transferred to Dynamo for an undisclosed fee.
On 30 January 2016, he moved from Dynamo to Football Club Zenit Saint St. Petersburg. Kokorin was a part of the Russia U-21 side that was competing in the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualification.
Kokorin was called up to the Russia national football team for a friendly against Greece in November 2011 and made his national team debut in that game on the 11th, a 1–1 draw in Piraeus.
He played two games at Union of European Football Associations Euro 2012 as Russia failed to pass the group stages. He scored his first national team goal on 11 September 2012 in a 2014 qualifier against Israel, which finished as a 4–0 victory at the Ramat Gan Stadium. He scored Russia"s goal in their 1–1 final group match draw with Algeria, as the team was knocked out by the North African side.