Meet the Weekend Division Team Featuring 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What can you boost a outstanding veteran team that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of former professionals who have played at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you target additional honors.

A Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 top-flight games.

The star-studded roster also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have secured 15 major honors and moved for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

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

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a