Discover the Sunday Division Club Boasting Over 1,800 Top-Flight Matches

What do you enhance a excellent experienced side who have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you target further trophies.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

The squad list this season features nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite games.

This high-profile squad also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a