World Cup Best Teams

The Countries at the first four places in World Cup history:

(1930 - 2006)

Country		Winner	Finalist	3rd	4th
1	Brazil	5	2	2	1
2	Italy	4	2	1	1
3	Germany/ West Germany	3	4	3	1
4	Argentina	2	2	0	0
5	Uruguay	2	0	0	2
6	France	1	1	2	1
7	England	1	0	0	1
8	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	0
9	Hungary	0	2	0	0
10	Netherlands	0	2	0	1
11	Sweden	0	1	2	1
12	Poland	0	0	2	0
13	Austria	0	0	1	1
14	Chile	0	0	1	0
15	Croatia	0	0	1	0
16	Portugal	0	0	1	1
17	Turkey	0	0	1	0
18	United States	0	0	1	0
19	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	2
20	Belgium	0	0	0	1
21	Bulgaria	0	0	0	1
22	South Korea	0	0	0	1
23	Spain	0	0	0	1
24	USSR	0	0	0	1

Germany and West Germany together have the most participations in the final four teams of the World Cup's history, with 11 in total. Brazil is second with 10 and Italy third with 8 participations.

BEST Countries At EURO Finals

The Best National teams according to their placements in top 16 of EURO finals:

(1935-2007)

Country		Points
1	USSR	940
2	Yugoslavia	807
3	Italy	654
4	Czechoslovakia	592
5	Spain	518
6	France	507
7	Greece	352
8	Poland	347
9	Bulgaria	307
10	Israel	272
11	Lithuania	271
12	Germany	242
13	Hungary	236
14	Turkey	202
15	Russia	181
16	Romania	156
17	Latvia	142
18	Belgium	131
19	Netherlands	126
20	Croatia	122
21	Egypt	102
22	Finland	96
23	Slovenia	67
24	Switzerland	48
25	Esthonia	45
26	Austria	36
27	East Germany	34
28	Sweden	34
29	Bosnia	31
30	Serbia / M	29
31	England	23
32	Ukraine	19
33	Lebanon	16
34	Luxemburg	15
35	Portugal	14
36	Syria	13
37	Czech	10
38	Albania	8
39	Denmark	8
40	Scotland	7
41	FYROM	4

The Medals at EURO Finals:

Country		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	USSR	14	3	4	21
2	Yugoslavia	8	5	4	17
3	Lithuania	3	1	1	5
4	Italy	2	4	4	10
5	Greece	2	1	1	4
6	Czechoslovakia	1	6	5	12
7	Hungary	1	1	1	3
8	Russia	1	1	1	3
9	Latvia	1	1	0	2
10	Germany	1	1	0	2
11	Egypt	1	0	1	2
12	Spain	0	6	2	8
13	France	0	1	5	6
14	Poland	0	1	3	4
15	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
16	Turkey	0	1	0	1
17	Israel	0	1	0	1
18	Croatia	0	0	2	2