Discover the Weekend League Squad With 1,800 English Top Division Games

What do you boost a stellar experienced team that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of former pro players that have played at the top level of club football and international soccer as you pursue more trophies.

A Greater Manchester club has an amateur vets squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

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

The roster this campaign features nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 top-flight matches.

This high-profile team also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have won 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

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

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my defender '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."

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a