Meet this Weekend Division Club With 1,800 Premier League Games

What can you boost a outstanding veteran team who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a raft of former pro players who have performed at the top level of club and global football as you target additional trophies.

One Manchester side has an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Division.

The lineup this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

This high-profile squad also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.

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

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a