Discover the Sunday League Team Featuring 1,800 English Top Division Matches

What do you improve a excellent experienced squad that have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players that have played at the top level of club and international football as you aim for more honors.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their active squad.

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

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

The squad list this season includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell 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."

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

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

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a