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

What can you boost a excellent experienced team that have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a group of ex- professionals who have played at the top level of club football and international football as you aim for further trophies.

One Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

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

Their lineup this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

The star-studded roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

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

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we can't wait for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a