Discover this Weekend League Club Boasting Over 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

How do you enhance a excellent veteran team that have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals that have performed at the top tier of club football and international football as you target more silverware.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active squad.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

The lineup this campaign boasts nine former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite games.

This high-profile roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have won 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and see are happy and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"That movement is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

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

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"We held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a