Discover the Weekend Division Squad Boasting 1,800 Premier League Matches

How can you boost a stellar experienced team who have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of former pro players that have performed at the elite level of club and global football as you pursue further trophies.

One Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign features 9 former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The high-profile team also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

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

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this summer through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

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

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a