Coach – Aage Hareide: A former Norway international defender is in charge of his fellow Scandinavian nation, and he has the tough task of replacing Danish legend and the country's longest-serving coach, Morten Olsen.
Legend – Peter Schmeichel: Led Denmark to their finest hour in football as they stepped off the beach to win Euro 92 as stand-ins for a banned Yugoslavia. Schmeichel was a colossus for the Danes in that tournament, but also for Manchester United in club football as he became the best goalkeeper in the world while at Old Trafford.
Star Man – Christian Eriksen: The Spurs man has been outstanding for Denmark in qualifying - they'd be nowhere without his remarkable return of 11 goals during the campaign, including a hat-trick in the play-off against the Irish.
Did you know? Denmark were given less than a week’s notice of their participation in Euro 92 after Yugoslavia were banned from participating due to civil war and UN sanctions, making their success one of the most remarkable in football history.
Fun Fact: Denmark have never scored a World Cup finals goal from outside of the box, with all 27 efforts coming from inside the area - Eriksen may change that this year as six of his 11 goals in qualifying came from outside the box.
Qualifying: It did not go smoothly for the Danes under new coach Hareide as they finished behind Poland in Group E and needed to go into the play-offs. A 5-1 aggregate victory over the Republic of Ireland, though, saw them emphatically book their spot in Russia.
Group C fixtures: Peru (5pm, June 16, Saransk), Australia (1pm, June 21, Samara), France (3pm, June 26, Moscow)
Goalkeepers: Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester), Frederik Ronnow (Brondby), Jonas Lossl (Huddersfield).
Defenders: Simon Kjaer (Sevilla), Mathias Jorgensen (Huddersfield), Andreas Christensen (Chelsea), Henrik Dalsgaard (Brentford), Jannik Vestergaard (Borussia Monchengladbach), Jens Stryger Larsen (Udinese), Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich).
Midfielders: Christian Eriksen (Tottenham), Lasse Schone (Ajax), Michael Krohn-Dehli (Deportivo La Coruna), Thomas Delaney (Werder Bremen), William Kvist (FC Copenhagen), Lukas Lerager (Bordeaux).
Forwards: Andreas Cornelius (Atalanta), Kasper Dolberg (Ajax), Martin Braithwaite (Bordeaux), Nicolai Jorgensen (Feyenoord), Pione Sisto (Celta Vigo), Viktor Fischer (FC Copenhagen), Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig).
They may be second-favourites to progress to the knock-out stages, but Denmark find themselves as 80/1 longshots to lift the World Cup.
They line-up in Group C alongside France, Peru and Australia and can be found at 4/6 to qualify to the next round.