Meet the Sunday Division Club With Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Matches

What can you boost a excellent veteran squad that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club football and global football as you pursue further silverware.

One Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Tier.

The lineup this season includes nine former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The high-profile roster also contains 222 top division goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

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

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have won 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

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

"We really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a