Sports — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 August 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.
Observations
These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.
Content that also appears on other registered channels
Posts published here appear word for word on 1 other registered channel. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.
Matching posts — open both and compare (5 of the pairs behind the counts below)
Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.
What this cannot establish
MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.
Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. 4 of the 5 matches recorded here fall after that date and carried no header when we read them. The rest predate reliable capture and are not evidence either way.
“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 9 comparable posts for this entry, running 4 August 2026 to 7 August 2026. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.
The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.
Verbatim republication has three causes and the text separates only two: a clone/mirror, unattributed copy-paste, or BOTH channels copying a common third source that neither attributes. The spread filter (content held by at most 8 channels) reduces the third and does not remove it.
'Earliest' means earliest IN THIS CORPUS. A channel ingested one page deep will look younger than a neighbour ingested in full; corpus_coverage above is there to be checked before the direction is believed.
shared_verified_est extrapolates the sampled pass rate over the full narrow match count; sampled/passed are the numbers actually measured.
Absence of a forward header is not proof of intent: Telegram lets a channel disable forward attribution, and a credit written in the body is not parsed as attribution here (mention_edge_either_way above is the closest available signal).
Across the whole group of 2, the earliest publisher we hold is @Espn_Football_News_UK. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.
Recorded under the key clone_copy, last confirmed 7 August 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.
Also posting the same content
This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
123 measurements spanning 51 days, net -1,192. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 52,762–54,312 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 123
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
26 Sept 2026, 13:56
52,941
-145
19 Sept 2026, 16:39
53,086
-39
18 Sept 2026, 06:58
53,125
-9
18 Sept 2026, 01:39
53,134
-15
17 Sept 2026, 15:59
53,149
-23
17 Sept 2026, 05:37
53,172
-35
16 Sept 2026, 04:00
53,207
+3
15 Sept 2026, 18:58
53,204
-3
15 Sept 2026, 16:57
53,207
-9
15 Sept 2026, 09:17
53,216
-39
14 Sept 2026, 13:15
53,255
-6
14 Sept 2026, 04:19
53,261
-12
14 Sept 2026, 00:18
53,273
-7
13 Sept 2026, 20:36
53,280
-35
13 Sept 2026, 01:36
53,315
-13
12 Sept 2026, 12:17
53,328
-2
12 Sept 2026, 05:57
53,330
-2
12 Sept 2026, 05:37
53,332
-28
11 Sept 2026, 04:16
53,360
-16
10 Sept 2026, 11:40
53,376
first reading
Engagement
184 posts held, back to 3 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 113 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
12.5%
avg views ÷ 52,941 subscribers
Avg views / post
6,600
94 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.97%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
94
of 184 held
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.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 26 September 2026
Posts held
184 (3 August 2026 – 26 September 2026)
Views total
620,040
Reactions total
12,223
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
26 Sept 2026, 20:22 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.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈21,200
Links
≈8
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 26 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.
Reaction mix
25,543 reactions across 184 posts, in 34 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 51.8% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
13,238
51.8%
🔥
2,566
10.0%
🤣
2,548
9.98%
👍
2,282
8.93%
😁
1,689
6.61%
💯
573
2.24%
👏
549
2.15%
💔
455
1.78%
💩
230
0.9%
🥰
201
0.787%
👎
160
0.626%
🤝
125
0.489%
🍾
119
0.466%
😭
98
0.384%
🫡
95
0.372%
😢
87
0.341%
🎉
72
0.282%
🆒
60
0.235%
🤮
58
0.227%
🕊
52
0.204%
14 further kinds
286
1.12%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 184 of the 184 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 25,543 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 184 most recent posts we hold, published 3 August 2026 to 26 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Sergio Agüero: "Who should win the Ballon d'Or? Easy question: Lionel Andrés Messi.
“It’s one thing to play well in La Liga or the Champions League, but performing well at a World Cup has a different level of merit.
“At 39 years old, considering everything he did at the World Cup, it has much more merit than a young player aged 21–25.”
🚨 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧: Raphinha has produced a G/A in EVERY game he has played so far this season, 18 G/A in 9 games! 🇧🇷🤯
vs Elche: ⚽️⚽️🅰️
vs Athletic Bilbao: ⚽️
vs Vallecano: ⚽️⚽️
vs Valencia: ⚽️
vs Feyenoord: ⚽️⚽️
vs Levante: 🅰️🅰️
vs Racing: ⚽️⚽️⚽️
vs Sevilla: ⚽️⚽️⚽️
vs Australia: 🅰️
🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Kai Havertz will leave Germany’s international camp & return to Arsenal’s facilities to undergo a scan after being forced off injured against the Netherlands, with optimism that the suspected hamstring injury is NOT serious. 🤞🇩🇪 [David_Ornstein]
Fabian Ruiz on why he deserves the Ballon d'Or 🏆
“At the end of the day, everyone knows it, the titles I’ve been able to win this past season. Obviously, I’m the player who has won the most titles, but well, I’ll leave the campaigning to the others.
Obviously, everyone likes to be recognized for the work we do. Well, I think that, in the end, it’s something nice to be recognized for all the work you’re doing and, w…
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Cristiano Ronaldo reveals he seriously considered RETIRING from international football after Portugal’s World Cup exit:
“Yes, I thought about everything. But you see me here, so I decided to CONTINUE.”
“I still believe I can help the national team. Not only through goals, but also outside of football.”
“The day they don’t count on me anymore, NO PROBLEM. I will take my suitcase and leave.”
“I will always…
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: João Félix explains why Lamine Yamal deserves the Ballon d’Or this year:
“LAMINE YAMAL IS FOOTBALL.”
“I’ve always believed the Ballon d’Or should go to the player you watch and think: ‘WOW, he’s a star and deserves to be remembered in football.’”
“If there is one player who makes you stay glued to the screen when you watch him play, it’s LAMINE.”
“Mbappé and Harry Kane had great seasons, but LAMINE IS FO…
Andy Robertson said that the death of Diogo Jota in 2025 was "horrendous" and had a major impact on the players that knew him 😔
Speaking on The Overlap, he said: “It's difficult to describe or talk about. What we went through was horrendous.”
"The new signings, they're coming into a club that was heartbroken. I felt so sorry for these guys because they'd signed, and they'd signed for big money, and it took them mon…
🚨 Lamine Yamal reveals his huge ambitions for the rest of his career.
🗣️ “I play to make history. I want kids in 30 years to say: ‘He was really good too.’
“I don’t want to be better than Pelé or Messi. I want to be Lamine Yamal and be recognised as Lamine Yamal.
“I’ve won three La Liga titles and I want seven or eight, at least. I haven’t won the Champions League yet. I want to win it.
“If I win one Champions Le…
Showing the 12 most recent of 184 posts we hold for @espnfc1. 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.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
Dead references
2
handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
Evidenced gone
0
we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
Never seen alive
2
vacant every time we have ever looked
@espnfc1 named 2 handles that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
@arsenal named in 1 post, 13 August 2026 – 13 August 2026
@chelsea named in 1 post, 13 August 2026 – 13 August 2026
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
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 24 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.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
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.
SportLife - Sport News @sportlife · 25,478 Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 68 here — alongside 67 others — read 14 September 2026
VETLAND SPORTS @vetland_sports_football1 · 109,194 Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 14 August 2026
Football XI News Live @footballxilive · 33,149 Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 4 September 2026
Premier League🏴 @mybestpremierleague · 24,990 Telegram ranks this channel #5 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 15 September 2026
Real Madrid Central @realmadridfran · 24,882 Telegram ranks this channel #5 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 15 September 2026
REAL MADRID C.F. @Realmadrid_world · 116,069 Telegram ranks this channel #5 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 14 August 2026
Bayern Munchen @bayern_munich · 32,410 Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 5 September 2026
Transfer News Live @TransferNews_Live · 49,048 Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 26 August 2026
Premier League @premier_league_forum · 73,116 Telegram ranks this channel #7 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 20 August 2026
Sky Sports News @skysport_football_official · 51,533 Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 24 August 2026
LIVERPOOL FC @liverpool_worldwide · 62,593 Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 21 August 2026
Transfer News Football @transfer_news_football · 88,421 Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 93 here — alongside 92 others — read 17 August 2026
Premier League @english_premier_league_links · 39,145 Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 30 August 2026
⚽️ Chelsea Football Club 💙 @ChelseaFcWorldWide_001 · 121,712 Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 14 August 2026
EA SPORTS FC 26 @ea_fc26_news_fifa · 27,238 Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 10 September 2026
Chelsea FC 🖤 @chelseafcen · 28,794 Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 9 September 2026
BOOMBET @boombet301 · 65,050 Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 20 August 2026
Real Madrid C.F. @real_madrid · 112,592 Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 14 August 2026
🔴Manchester United🔴 @manchester_united_uk · 51,849 Telegram ranks this channel #11 of 94 here — alongside 93 others — read 24 August 2026
Football news - The Sun @FootballTheSun · 45,516 Telegram ranks this channel #13 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 27 August 2026
Lionel Messi Fans @Lionel_Messi_10_Fans · 47,273 Telegram ranks this channel #13 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 26 August 2026
CHELSEA MEDIA 🎥 @ChelseaFC_Media · 22,343 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 20 September 2026
Sky Sports Football @Sky_Sportz_football · 66,145 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 20 August 2026
Here We Go Club @herewegoclub · 84,076 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 18 August 2026
This channel appears in 94 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
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.
“ESPN FC” (@espnfc1), 52,941 subscribers as measured 26 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/espnfc1.
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.