Discover this Sunday League Club Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Matches

How can you enhance a stellar veteran squad that have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

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

A Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 elite matches.

The elite squad also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

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

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this season through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

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

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a