Discover the Sunday Division Club Featuring Over 1,800 Top-Flight Appearances

What can you boost a outstanding experienced squad who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the top level of club and global soccer as you aim for additional trophies.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine former Premier League footballers in their current roster.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

The lineup this campaign includes 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 elite appearances.

This elite squad also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Household Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a