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The team's attention are firmly on Thursday's World Cup playoff draw as they await learning their semifinal and potential final opponents.

After ended as runners-up in their qualification pool following a commanding 7-1 victory over North Macedonia – their biggest success since 1978 – the side will host the semifinal match on home soil.

They will face either Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo or Ireland in that fixture on 26 March.

Ex- Wales forward Rob Earnshaw feels the Dragons will welcome a match against any opponent after their most recent result at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I'm familiar with Craig Bellamy, we were teammates with him and his mindset is 'give us anyone, we're ready'," Earnshaw stated.

"A lot of fans were saying last night, 'do we really want Republic of Ireland as it's that derby atmosphere?'. I think a number of people didn't. But personally, that would be fantastic.

"It's one of those, yes, we're ready for the Kosovans or Bosnia and the Albanians are decent and Republic of Ireland, naturally, they're a very good team so it will be challenging.

"But you just feel that we'll take anyone right now and we're confident, and much of that is because of Craig Bellamy."

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Wales sit thirty-fourth in the FIFA standings, with the Albanian team sixty-first, Ireland 62nd, Bosnia-Herzegovina 75th and Kosovo eighty-fourth.

The Albanian national team enjoyed a strong qualifying run, with their sole defeats coming at the hands of Group K winners England, who secured full points without allowing a single goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and the Serie A side's Elseid Hysaj are among the Albanian squad's more notable names, although it was former Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford forward Rey Manaj who led their scoring chart in qualifying with three goals.

Notably, Albania have not yet earned a spot for a World Cup, though they participated at Euro 2016 and the 2024 Euros, not managing to reach the last 16 on each times.

As Slovenia and Sweden endured poor campaigns, with each failing to win a qualifying match, their group was a direct battle between Switzerland and Kosovo.

The Swiss ended the six-game campaign three points ahead of Kosovo, whose single defeat came at the hands of the pool winners.

Kosovo feature former Manchester City keeper Arijanet Muric and La Liga's Vedat Muriqi – his country's all-time leading goalscorer – in a squad targeting a maiden international competition appearance.

They have never faced the Welsh team.

Bosnia-Herzegovina were defeated just once in the qualifiers, and earned a point more than the Welsh achieved in their 8 games, but nonetheless finished two points behind of their group winners Austria.

They were 13 minutes away from securing a place at the World Cup, but Michael Gregoritsch's leveler for the Austrians meant the teams drew in the final game of qualification and Ralf Rangnick's team won the pool.

The Welsh have not managed to defeat the Bosnians in four attempts but experienced a memorable loss against Zmajevi as they qualified for Euro 2016 under Chris Coleman despite the defeat.

Being his nation's all-time top goalscorer and record appearance player, ex- Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko, now at Fiorentina, is unquestionably Bosnia's key player.

The veteran was his squad's leading goalscorer in qualifying with five goals.

And finally, we have Republic of Ireland.

Having secured only a single point from their first three qualifiers, Heimir Hallgrímsson's side surged into the playoffs with successive wins against Armenia, Portugal and Hungary.

Troy Parrott scored the two goals against Euro 2016 winners Portugal before scoring a hat-trick – with the third goal coming in the 96th minute – as the Irish surprised Hungary to take runner-up spot in Group F in dramatic style.

Talisman Seamus Coleman had a vital role in his side's revival while Premier League keeper Caoimhin Kelleher has secured the starting position his own.

The Republic of Ireland are without a win in their past four encounters with the Welsh, defeated in three of these, although James McClean shattered the hopes of the Welsh fans as Martin O'Neill's men won a crucial World Cup qualifying match at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.