In 2011, Liu Yang started his professional footballer career with Shandong Luneng in the Chinese Super League.
[1] He would eventually make his league debut for Shandong on 29 October 2011 in a game against Shenzhen Ruby, coming on as a substitute for Han Peng in the 90th minute.
[2] Under the Head coach Henk ten Cate, Liu would start to become a regular within the squad, however the club finished in a disappointing twelfth in the 2012 Chinese Super League campaign and under the new manager Radomir Antić he would lose his place within the first team.
[7] Zhu would stay with the team and at the end of the 2017 league season he was part of the squad that gained promotion back into the top tier.
[9] After two seasons he would join fellow top tier club Cangzhou Mighty Lions on 8 April 2021.