The contract between the 29-year-old and Spartak is for three years with an option to extend for one season.

In the second half of the 2019/20 Russian Premier Liga season Kokorin scored seven goals in 10 games on loan for FC Sochi, and at the end of March was named Player of the Month by the RPL.

Since 2016, Kokorin was on the books at Zenit, for whom he played 62 games and scored 17 goals in the RPL. He became champion of Russia in the 2018/19 season, and won the Russian Cup and Super Cup in 2016. After the end of the 2019/20 season, the player's contract with the Blue-White-Sky Blues expired.

Kokorin has also played in the RPL for Dynamo Moscow (2008-2013, 2013-2016), while from July to August 2013, he was a player of Anzhi Makhachkala.