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^ Not that it probably matters that much but "Russia" has never won the Euros. True, the members of the 1960 Soviet Union team that won the Final were mostly "Russians" but it was the USSR, not "Russia", that won the thing. The USSR had 4 other top 4 finishes at the Euro finals (runners-up in 1964, 1968 and - most satisfyingly - 1988; 4th in 1972). By 1988, there were, I believe, only about 2 Russians in the squad (it was made up of mostly Ukrainians). "Russia" has never got further than the World Cup quarter-finals (best finish 8th in 2018) or the Euro semi-finals (once, in 2008).
Similarly, it was Czechoslovakia, not the Czech Republic, that won the Euros in 1976. I believe that the squad was about equally Czechs and Slovaks at the time. The Czech Republic did make the Final in 1996, losing to Germany under the short-lived Golden Goal arrangement.