Meet the Sunday League Club With Over 1,800 English Top Division Matches

What can you enhance a excellent experienced side who have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players that have performed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans team with nine ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

Their squad list this season includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

This star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and see are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a