Discover the Sunday Division Team Boasting Over 1,800 Top-Flight Games

What do you enhance a outstanding veteran squad that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you aim for additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester club has an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Division.

Their roster this season includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a combined 1,801 top-flight matches.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"The running is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a