Discover the Weekend League Club With Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Appearances

What can you improve a outstanding experienced squad who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Sign a group of former pro players that have performed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you aim for more trophies.

One Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with nine former top-flight players in their current roster.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

The roster this season boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This elite roster also includes 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have won 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

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

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"The 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 Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who 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 spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 England caps.

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

"We literally haven't 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 game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a