Meet this Sunday Division Team Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Matches

How can you enhance a stellar veteran squad that have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals who have played at the highest level of club and global football as you target more honors.

A Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

Their lineup this campaign features 9 former Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

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

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

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

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a