Meet this Weekend Division Team Boasting Over 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

How can you boost a stellar veteran side that have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the highest level of club and global soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

One Manchester side has an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

The lineup this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a total 1,801 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded squad also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - 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 the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - 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 continue running.

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a