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The team's attention are squarely on Thursday's World Cup playoff fixture as they await discovering their semi-final and possible final challengers.

Having finished second in their qualification pool following a dominant 7-1 win over North Macedonia – their biggest win since 1978 – the side will host the semifinal match on home soil.

They will face either the Albanian side, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Kosovan team or Ireland in that fixture on 26 March.

Ex- Wales striker Rob Earnshaw thinks the Dragons will embrace a tie against whichever team after their most recent performance at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I'm familiar with Craig Bellamy, I played with him and his mindset is 'bring on anyone, we're ready'," Earnshaw said.

"Many fans were saying recently, 'should we actually want Republic of Ireland as it's that local feel?'. I think a number of people didn't. But personally, that could be incredible.

"So it's that type of situation, indeed, we'll take Kosovo or Bosnia and the Albanians are competitive and Ireland, of course, they are a capable team so it will be difficult.

"But the sense is that we'll take anyone at the moment and we're confident, and a lot of that is down to Craig Bellamy."

Possible Playoff Semifinal Opponents Assessed

Wales sit 34th in the world rankings, with the Albanian team sixty-first, Ireland sixty-second, Bosnia-Herzegovina seventy-fifth and the Kosovan side 84th.

The Albanian national team enjoyed a strong qualifying run, with their only losses coming at the hands of their group winners England, who secured maximum points without conceding a solitary goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and Lazio's Elseid Hysaj are among the Red and Blacks's more notable names, though it was former Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford forward Rey Manaj who led their goal tally in qualifying with three goals.

Importantly, Albania have not yet earned a spot for a World Cup, although they participated at the 2016 European Championship and Euro 2024, not managing to advance to the knockout stages on both occasions.

While Slovenia and Sweden had poor campaigns, with each not managing to win a qualification match, Group B was a direct battle between Switzerland and Kosovo.

The Swiss finished the six-match campaign three points clear of the Kosovans, whose one loss came at the hands of the group winners.

Kosovo include ex- Manchester City goalkeeper Arijanet Muric and Mallorca's Vedat Muriqi – his nation's historic top scorer – in a team aiming for a first international competition appearance.

They have not yet played Wales.

Bosnia were defeated just once in the qualifiers, and claimed a points more than Wales achieved in their 8 games, but still ended two points adrift of Group H winners Austria.

They were a quarter of an hour away from securing a place at the finals, but Michael Gregoritsch's leveler for the Austrians meant the pair tied in the last game of qualifying and Ralf Rangnick's team topped the group.

The Welsh have not managed to defeat the Bosnians in 4 attempts but experienced a memorable loss against the Dragons as they earned qualification for the 2016 European Championship under Chris Coleman despite losing.

Being his country's historic leading scorer and record appearance player, former Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, now at Fiorentina, is undoubtedly Bosnia's standout player.

The 39-year-old was his team's leading goalscorer in qualifying with 5 goals.

And finally, we have Ireland.

After secured just one point from their opening 3 matches, Heimir Hallgrímsson's side stormed into the playoffs with successive wins against Armenia, Portugal and Hungary.

Troy Parrott scored the two goals against Euro 2016 winners Portugal before bagging a triple – with the final goal coming in the 96th minute – as the Irish stunned Hungary to take runner-up spot in their group in dramatic fashion.

Key player Seamus Coleman played a crucial role in his side's revival while Premier League goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher has made the number one jersey his own.

Ireland are without a win in their last four encounters with the Welsh, defeated in 3 of these, though James McClean shattered the hopes of the Welsh fans as Martin O'Neill's men won a crucial World Cup qualifier at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.