Channel
@BBCSPORTFOOTBALL
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
1,695subscribers
-22 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 | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 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 why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 31 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (31 August 2026 – 31 August 2026) |
| Views total | 648 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 31 Aug 2026, 17:45 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
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 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“BBC SPORT FOOTBALL” (@BBCSPORTFOOTBALL), 1,695 subscribers as measured 18 September 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.