Discover this Sunday Division Club With Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Appearances

How do you boost a stellar veteran team that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players that have performed at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you pursue more trophies.

A Manchester team has an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their current roster.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

The squad list this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

The elite roster also contains 222 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

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

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

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

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, 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 Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a