Discover the Weekend Division Team Boasting 1,800 English Top Division Matches

How can you improve a excellent experienced squad who have claimed back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have competed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you aim for further silverware.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

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

The lineup this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite appearances.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

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

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

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

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a