Channel
@FootballTheSun
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
45,516subscribers
-1,991 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001284423279 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @FootballTheSun |
| Description | Get the latest breaking news, views, video and everything else you love about the beautiful game, direct from The Sun. |
| Created | 16 February 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 26 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 34 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 26 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/FootballTheSun |
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 9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Sept 2026, 04:38 | 45,516 | -207 |
| 19 Sept 2026, 06:38 | 45,723 | -99 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 21:20 | 45,822 | -50 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 02:17 | 45,872 | -57 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 14:37 | 45,929 | -59 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 21:40 | 45,988 | -100 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 08:00 | 46,088 | -121 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 23:38 | 46,209 | -91 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 23:59 | 46,300 | -56 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 18:04 | 46,356 | -34 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 13:13 | 46,390 | -56 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 14:08 | 46,446 | -41 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 17:08 | 46,487 | -35 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 16:35 | 46,522 | -27 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 19:37 | 46,549 | -19 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 22:28 | 46,568 | -35 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 19:27 | 46,603 | -46 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 16:56 | 46,649 | -35 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 16:15 | 46,684 | -84 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 21:38 | 46,768 | first reading |
21 posts held, back to 30 March 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 103 pages 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 21 posts for this entry, the most recent from 11 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 27 September 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
James McClean expected at open Derry City training session amid speculation over his future at League of Ireland club https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/40023266/james-mcclean-derry-city-training-speculation-future/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
Hull City players on way to Las Vegas to celebrate Prem promotion left stuck in airport hotel as private jet breaks down https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39246595/hull-city-players-stuck-airport-hotel-las-vegas/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
Shakira shows off star-studded line up including Messi, Kane & Haaland for video for her official World Cup song https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39209877/shakira-star-studded-world-cup-song-video/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
Tyson Fury lines up bid to buy non-league Morecambe FC alongside football legend as they plot Netflix doc on the club https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39197886/tyson-fury-buy-morecambe-fc-zlatan-ibrahimovic/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
England & Scotland fans warned of World Cup travel chaos as eco loons plot to sabotage vital transport links to matches https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39198716/england-fans-world-cup-travel-chaos-eco-loons/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
SPFL manager dramatically SACKED for ‘gross misconduct’ following two-week-long investigation https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39190273/spfl-manager-sacked-gross-misconduct/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
Half of England fans are wearing FAKE shirts as AI app exposes counterfeit kit boom https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39130706/fake-england-shirts-how-to-spot-world-cup/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
Fears grow of World Cup flop after it’s revealed no match has sold out due to fan revolt triggered by outrageous prices https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39124138/world-cup-flop-fears-no-match-sold-out/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
World Cup in chaos after US hotel bookings slump as thousands of football fans decide to stay at home https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39067030/world-cup-chaos-us-hotel-bookings-slump/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
Dozens of Rangers fans ‘chased by cops on horseback’ after being turned away from Celtic Park ahead of Old Firm https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39064430/rangers-fans-chased-cops-celtic-park-old-firm/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
England football tickets for match in US in June available for just £54 – but there’s a catch https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39060517/england-football-tickets-us-catch/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
Blow for England fans at World Cup as train fares to stadium inaccessible by foot hiked by over 1,000 per cent https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39004400/world-cup-train-fares-brutal-hike-stadium-no-walking/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=footballtelegram
Showing the 12 most recent of 21 posts we hold for @FootballTheSun. 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.
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 27 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
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 7 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists 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 26 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Football news - The Sun” (@FootballTheSun), 45,516 subscribers as measured 26 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/FootballTheSun.
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.