Channel
@BBCSPORTFOOTBALL
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
1,644subscribers
-73 since we began measuring on 31 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001259294171 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @BBCSPORTFOOTBALL |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 31 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 16 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 8 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/BBCSPORTFOOTBALL |
Sports — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 18 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Nov 2026, 20:38 | 1,644 | -3 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 15:16 | 1,647 | -3 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 06:48 | 1,650 | -3 |
| 30 Oct 2026, 11:08 | 1,653 | -6 |
| 24 Oct 2026, 01:48 | 1,659 | -2 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 01:28 | 1,661 | -2 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 16:39 | 1,663 | -5 |
| 11 Oct 2026, 14:38 | 1,668 | -9 |
| 5 Oct 2026, 09:36 | 1,677 | -8 |
| 27 Sept 2026, 14:37 | 1,685 | -10 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 06:41 | 1,695 | -10 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 09:16 | 1,705 | -5 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 16:58 | 1,710 | -9 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 07:20 | 1,719 | +2 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 15:43 | 1,717 | no change |
| 31 Aug 2026, 17:45 | 1,717 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 31 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 31 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
BBC Sport - Football Messi retires from international football Argentina great Lionel Messi announces his retirement from international football, saying it was a decision that "hurt" but he understands "the time has come".
BBC Sport - Football Everton make bid for Monaco striker Balogun Everton make an offer for Monaco forward Folarin Balogun - who is valued at £40m by the French club.
BBC Sport - Football Everton forced to move EFL Cup tie at short notice Everton are forced to move their Carabao Cup third-round match against Championship side Wolves - nine days before it was due to be played.
BBC Sport - Football Newcastle close in on £55m deal for Fernandez-Pardo Newcastle United are closing in on the signing of Lille forward Matias Fernandez-Pardo in a deal worth up to £55m.
BBC Sport - Football Barcola joins Liverpool from PSG in £123m move Liverpool complete the signing of France forward Bradley Barcola from Paris St-Germain for a fee worth up to £123m.
BBC Sport - Football Coady leaves Wrexham by mutual consent Defender Conor Coady leaves Wrexham following the mutual termination of his contract with the Championship club.
BBC Sport - Football Valencia interested in loan for Liverpool's Elliott Valencia are in talks with Liverpool to take midfielder Harvey Elliott on loan for the rest of the season.
BBC Sport - Football Forest complete £22m Munoz signing from Palace Nottingham Forest complete the £22m signing of Daniel Munoz from Crystal Palace.
BBC Sport - Football Man City sign Palmeiras winger Allan for £34m Manchester City complete the signing of winger Allan Elias from Palmeiras in a deal worth up to £34.2m.
BBC Sport - Football Swansea agree loan of Manchester City's Monga Manchester City winger Jeremy Monga is set for a season at Swansea City, who will allow Finland international Leo Walta to join Los Angeles on loan.
BBC Sport - Football Driven & hungry Rashford a Man Utd asset - Maguire Manchester United defender Harry Maguire is backing Marcus Rashford to make a big impact at the club this season.
BBC Sport - Football Germany's Wamser completes move to Man City Manchester City complete the signing of Bayer Leverkusen and Germany defender Carlotta Wamser on a four-year deal.
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @BBCSPORTFOOTBALL. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 8 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“BBC SPORT FOOTBALL” (@BBCSPORTFOOTBALL), 1,644 subscribers as measured 8 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BBCSPORTFOOTBALL.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.