Football Telegram alerts, triggered by your own rules
InPlayGuru sends live football (soccer) alerts to Telegram: one message each time a match meets the rules of one of your strategies. You set the conditions and choose the statistics in the message. InPlayGuru watches 1,000+ leagues around the clock, and each alert reaches your private chat, your own group or your channel, within seconds, even with your browser closed.
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- from pitch action to alert delivered
- ~5 seconds
- destinations: chat, group or channel
- 3
- alert per match, per strategy: zero noise
- 1
- free alert limit
- 5 per day
Your own football Telegram alerts, not a channel you follow
Most football channels on Telegram push one person's opinions to everybody. InPlayGuru works the other way around. You describe the match situations you care about, it watches every live match for them, and it messages you when one happens. Your rules instead of somebody else's opinions, on the most complete platform of its kind.
Custom football alerts
Build alerts on what you care about: goals, shots, corners, cards, dangerous attacks, possession, xG and live momentum, which InPlayGuru pioneered. You hear about a match only when the whole picture fits.
Every match, all day
Choose from 1,000+ leagues to work for you around the clock. Every live match is checked against your strategies on InPlayGuru's servers, so your rules keep working while you sleep, work or watch another game.
A message you design
You choose which statistics appear in the alert: xG, corners, momentum, shots on target, cards and more. Every message carries exactly what you need to judge the match at a glance, and nothing you don't.
No noise
One alert per match, per strategy. A strategy never pings you twice about the same game. Need quiet? Mute a single strategy or pause all alerts, and your strategies keep recording what they pick.
Set up the soccer Telegram alert bot in three steps
Nothing to install. InPlayGuru runs in your browser on any device, and the football alerts Telegram bot lives in the app you already use every day.
Create a strategy
Describe the match situation you want to hear about. Start from a ready-made template such as Corner storm, Late corner or Momentum surge, or write your own rules. Pick the moment that suits you: in-play alerts reach Telegram while the match is live, and Pre-Match strategies alert you before kick-off, at the lead time you choose.
Connect Telegram once
Link your Telegram account to the InPlayGuru bot. It takes about a minute, you do it once, and every strategy you create from then on knows where to find you.
Get on with your day
Close the browser. When a match meets your rules, the alert reaches you with the teams, the minute, the score and the statistics you chose, plus a direct link to the live scanner. You know while it's happening, without watching a minute.
Private chat, your own group or your channel
Keep your football Telegram alerts to yourself, or share them with a community. Alerts go to one destination at a time, and you can move them whenever you like. Members of a group or channel see the names of your strategies, never the rules behind them.
| Destination | Who reads the alerts | What you need |
|---|---|---|
| Private chat | Only you. | A Telegram account. Included in every plan, the free plan too. |
| Group | Every member of your group. | A paid plan, with the InPlayGuru bot added to your group as an admin. |
| Channel | Every subscriber of your channel. | A paid plan, with the InPlayGuru bot added to your channel as an admin. |
Run your own football alerts channel on Telegram
Connect your Telegram channel or group once, and InPlayGuru posts every alert from your strategies there, within seconds, day and night. You bring the ideas. The bot does the posting. Your community gets every alert the moment it happens, and you grow a following on autopilot.
- It posts, you don't. No copy and paste, no screenshots, no need to be online. A match meets your rules at 3 a.m. and your channel already has it.
- Your rules stay yours. Subscribers see the strategy name and the match statistics you chose to share. The rules behind them never leave your account.
- One clean format, designed by you. You choose which statistics every post shows, so your channel looks consistent from the first alert to the thousandth.
- Every post opens the live match. Alerts in a channel or group link to the live statistics, so your members follow the game from the moment the post lands.
- The story finishes itself. When a strategy tracks an outcome, the post is updated after the match with the half-time score, the full-time score and whether that outcome happened.
- Beyond Telegram. Eligible accounts can also receive every alert as a signed webhook, ready for Discord, a custom app or a spreadsheet.
In-play alert ideas to start from
Six match situations worth a Telegram message, each one a working strategy. Make any of them yours: change a number, add a condition or combine two ideas. An alert goes out only when every rule is true in the same minute, so you decide exactly how strict to be.
Late pressure
Shots on target are flying in with the clock running down. You hear about the match while the pressure is on, not in tomorrow's highlights.
Momentum swing
One team came out after the break and took the game over. Live momentum, InPlayGuru's signature metric, catches the shift as it happens, whatever the scoreboard says. More on the live football momentum page.
Chances without a goal
The home side has created chances worth a goal and a half, and its side of the scoreboard is still blank. The score says one thing, the chances say another, and you know while the match is still being played. More on the live xG alerts page.
Corner storm
The corners are coming thick and fast. The match has turned into a set-piece battle, and you're told while it's still going on. More on the football corner alerts page.
Red card in a level match
A red card while the scores are level. The whole match just changed, and you hear about it while it still matters.
Before kick-off
A team whose recent matches are full of goals is about to play. A Pre-Match strategy reads the form for you and alerts you before kick-off, at the lead time you choose.
How fast is an alert? Every second counts, so see for yourself
In a live match, one second can make all the difference. We know it, and speed is what we work on hardest: three short stages from the pitch to your chat, each one as fast as we can make it. Don't take our word for it. Every delivery is timed, alert by alert, so you can see for yourself.
| Stage | What happens | Typical time |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The data arrives | A shot, a corner, a goal: the event reaches InPlayGuru. | 2 to 5 seconds in most cases. Some lower competitions take longer. |
| 2. Your rules are checked | All your strategies are checked against the match, on InPlayGuru's servers. | As the new data arrives. No browser to keep open. |
| 3. Telegram delivers | The message lands in your chat, group or channel. | Within 1-3 seconds. The Delivery log records the measured delay of every alert, so you can check it yourself. |
Delivery you can check
Anybody can claim to be fast and reliable. InPlayGuru shows you: every alert leaves a record you can open.
- Delivery log. Proof, not promises. Your last 100 alerts, each with its status and its measured delay, so you always know what was sent and how fast it reached you.
- Personal alerts bot. Your own Telegram bot, serving only your account. When the schedule is at its busiest, your alerts travel in a lane of their own and delivery stays more consistent.
- The result, added afterwards. When a strategy tracks an outcome, the alert is updated once after the match with the half-time score, the full-time score and whether that outcome happened. Look back through your chat and each of those alerts tells its whole story.
- A record outside Telegram. Every match a strategy picks is logged in its history with the statistics at that minute, at half-time and at full-time. See what your rules really catch, and export it to Excel or CSV on paid plans.
What members say
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Football Telegram alerts: common questions
How do I get live football alerts on Telegram?
Create a free InPlayGuru account, describe the match situation you want to hear about in a strategy, and link your Telegram account to the InPlayGuru bot. Connecting Telegram takes about a minute. From then on, a match that meets your rules reaches you as a Telegram message, within seconds, with your browser closed.
Is there a Telegram bot for soccer alerts?
Yes. The InPlayGuru bot sends soccer Telegram alerts (football, if you prefer) built on rules you write yourself, from live statistics such as shots, corners, xG and live momentum. InPlayGuru watches 1,000+ leagues around the clock so you don't have to, and the bot messages you only when your rules are met, within seconds. It's included in the free plan: up to 5 strategies and 5 alerts per day in your private chat, with no credit card.
Can the bot send alerts to my own Telegram group or channel?
Yes, on a paid plan. Add the InPlayGuru bot to your own group or channel as an admin, and every alert from your strategies is posted there automatically, day and night. Your members see the strategy names and the statistics you chose to share, never the rules.
How fast do Telegram alerts arrive?
within seconds. In most cases an event reaches InPlayGuru 2 to 5 seconds after it happens on the pitch, your rules are checked as the data arrives, and the Telegram message follows. And delivery is measured, not estimated: the Delivery log shows how long each alert took to reach you after your rules were met, and a personal alerts bot keeps delivery more consistent at busy moments.
What does a Telegram alert include?
A Telegram alert names the strategy, the league, the two teams and their table positions, the minute and the score, followed by the statistics you chose, such as xG, corners, momentum or shots on target. A direct link opens the live scanner.
Is this a channel I follow, or my own alerts?
Your own alerts. You write the rules, InPlayGuru watches every live match for them and messages you when they are met. No shared feed, nobody else's opinions: only the matches you asked to hear about, when they fit your rules.
Can I use Telegram alerts for free?
Yes, and no credit card is needed. The free plan includes 5 strategy slots and up to 5 alerts per day in your private chat (the count restarts at midnight UTC), and covers a part of the live matches. Paid plans cover every live match, send unlimited alerts and can post to your own group or channel.
Do I need to keep the app open?
No. Strategies run on InPlayGuru's servers around the clock, and Telegram alerts reach you with your browser closed and your phone in your pocket. Desktop notifications in the live football stats scanner are a separate option for the matches you follow while the tab is open.
Go deeper in the user guide
- Telegram Alerts: connect a chat, a group or a channel, step by step.
- How Strategies Work: rules, picks and what happens when a match qualifies.
- Common Strategy Patterns: five complete strategies, rule by rule.
- Pre-Match Strategies: alerts before kick-off from form statistics.
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