March 2, 2011: On March 2, 2011, in the 2011 AFC Champions League Group G, Shandong Luneng lost 0:1 to Jeonbuk Hyundai, becoming the only Chinese Super League team to lose in the first round of the AFC Champions League.
In the 2011 AFC Champions League, Shandong Luneng, Tianjin Teda, Shanghai Shenhua and Hangzhou Greentown represented China. Shandong Luneng is in Group G with Jeonbuk Hyundai in South Korea, Sakura Osaka in Japan and Arema in Indonesia. In the first game of the AFC Champions League, as the 2010 Chinese Super League champion, Shandong Luneng could not see the passion from the scene, and most of the game was also suppressed by Jeonbuk Hyundai, and a defeat was also reasonable.
Jeonbuk Hyundai is South Korea's most successful football club and a nightmare in The AFC Champions League for Shandong Luneng. Shandong Luneng faced Jeonbuk Hyundai in the group stage stages of the 2011 AFC Champions League and the 2015 AFC Champions League, scoring 3 goals, conceding 11 goals, and suffering two 1:4 defeats.
In the 2011 AFC Champions League, Shandong Luneng continued to perform as a layman in the foreign war, still habitually creating tragedies. The grouping situation of Shandong Luneng in the 2011 AFC Champions League is relatively good, with both weak team Arema and teams like Sakura Osaka participating in the AFC Champions League for the first time.
Shandong Luneng lost to Jeonbuk Hyundai in the first match, but defeated Sakura Osaka at home. However, the away draw by Arema became a turning point for Luneng. Since then, although he has bloodied Arema at home, he once again lost to his opponent in the match against Jeonbuk Hyundai, which also hangs Luneng's AFC Champions League qualification situation by the line. In the last match, Luneng could only qualify by defeating Sakura Osaka. Luneng is characterized by not being good at playing key battles, and sure enough, away to Sakura Osaka, Luneng lost 4 goals and bid farewell to that season's AFC Champions League in a humiliating way. Luneng has written a heavy stroke in the history of his AFC Champions League tragedy.
List of starts against Jeonbuk Hyundai Shandong Luneng: 22-Yang Cheng, 19-Zhang Chi (49th minute, 15-Yuan Weiwei), 29-Ricardo, 3-Renato, 16-Zheng Zheng, 23-Li Wei (66th minute, 9-Han Peng), 6-Zhou Haibin, 7-Cui Peng (85th minute, 21-Deng Zhuoxiang), 18-Antar, 8-Wang Yongpo, 10-Obina