Meet the Weekend Division Squad Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

What do you boost a outstanding veteran squad who have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

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

One Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with nine former Premier League players in their present roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

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

Their lineup this season includes 9 former top-flight players, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 big honors and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

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

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a