When the new manager Ljubiša Tumbaković came in at the beginning of the 2004 league season he would bring in Zong Lei as competition for the first choice goalkeeper position.
Geng Xiaofeng joined the Shandong Luneng youth team at the age of fourteen and would go on to join the Shandong Luneng's first team squad when the manager Ljubiša Tumbaković promoted him to act as backup for Li Leilei and then later for Yang Cheng.