Meet the Sunday League Club With Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Matches

What can you enhance a outstanding veteran squad who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals that have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you aim for additional honors.

A Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their current lineup.

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

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

The lineup this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight games.

This elite team also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a