Liao Lei would play for the Shandong Luneng Taishan youth team and would be sent to Brazil to further his development on 24 September 2014.
[2] He would not be promoted to the senior team of Shandong and would go to Spain to play for fourth tier club Estudiantes.
After going on to establish himself as a regular within the team he would join third tier Spanish club FC Jumilla.
[3] His time at Jumilla would be short lived after they were relegated at the end of the 2018–19 Segunda División B league season and were dissolved due to financial difficulties.
[4] Liao would join fourth tier club UD Los Garres on 1 July 2019 for the 2019–20 Tercera División campaign.