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

After finished as runners-up in their qualifying group thanks to a dominant 7-1 win over North Macedonia – their biggest win since 1978 – Wales will play the semifinal match on home soil.

They will meet either Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo or Republic of Ireland in that match on 26 March.

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

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

"Many people were wondering last night, 'do we really want Ireland because of that local atmosphere?'. In my view a number of people didn't. But for me, that could be incredible.

"So it's that type of situation, yes, we'll take Kosovo or Bosnia and Albania are decent and Republic of Ireland, naturally, they're a capable team so it will be tough.

"But you just feel that we're prepared for anyone at the moment and we're confident, and much of that is because of Craig Bellamy."

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Wales sit 34th in the FIFA standings, with the Albanian team sixty-first, Republic of Ireland 62nd, Bosnia seventy-fifth and Kosovo eighty-fourth.

Albania had a impressive qualifying campaign, with their sole losses coming at the hands of Group K winners England, who claimed maximum points without allowing a single goal.

The Premier League's Armando Broja and the Serie A side's Elseid Hysaj are part of the Albanian squad's prominent names, though it was former Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford forward Rey Manaj who topped their scoring chart in qualifying with three goals.

Importantly, Albania have not yet earned a spot for a FIFA World Cup, though they featured at the 2016 European Championship and Euro 2024, failing to advance to the knockout stages on each times.

While Slovenia and Sweden had difficult campaigns, with both not managing to win a qualification match, Group B was a straight shootout between Switzerland and Kosovo.

The Switzerland finished the six-match campaign 3 points ahead of Kosovo, whose one defeat was at the hands of the group winners.

Kosovo feature former Manchester City keeper Arijanet Muric and La Liga's Vedat Muriqi – his country's all-time top scorer – in a team aiming for a maiden international competition appearance.

They have not yet faced the Welsh team.

Bosnia lost only one time in the qualifiers, and earned a points more than the Welsh achieved in their 8 games, but nonetheless finished two points adrift of Group H winners Austria.

They were 13 minutes away from clinching a place at the finals, but Michael Gregoritsch's equaliser for the Austrians ensured the teams drew in the final game of qualifying and Ralf Rangnick's team won the group.

Wales have failed to defeat the Bosnian side in 4 attempts but experienced a unforgettable loss against Zmajevi as they earned qualification for Euro 2016 under Chris Coleman despite losing.

Being his country's historic leading scorer and record appearance player, ex- Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko, currently with Fiorentina, is undoubtedly Bosnia's star player.

The 39-year-old was his team's leading goalscorer in the qualifiers with five goals.

Lastly, we have Republic of Ireland.

Having taken just one point from their first 3 qualifiers, Heimir Hallgrímsson's side surged into the playoffs with back-to-back wins against Armenia, Portugal and Hungary.

Troy Parrott scored the two goals against the 2016 European Championship winners Portugal before scoring a hat-trick – with the third goal coming in the 96th minute – as the Republic of Ireland surprised Hungary to secure runner-up spot in Group F in dramatic fashion.

Talisman Seamus Coleman played a crucial role in his side's resurgence while Premier League keeper Caoimhin Kelleher has made the starting jersey his to keep.

Ireland are without a win in their past four meetings with the Welsh, defeated in three of those, though James McClean broke the hearts of the Red Wall as Martin O'Neill's men won a decisive World Cup qualifying match at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.