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The team's focus are squarely on the upcoming World Cup playoff fixture as they prepare for discovering their semifinal and possible final opponents.

After ended as runners-up in their qualification group following a commanding 7-1 victory over North Macedonia – their largest success since 1978 – Wales will play the semifinal encounter on home soil.

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

Former Wales forward Rob Earnshaw feels the Dragons will welcome a match against whichever team following their most recent performance at Cardiff City Stadium.

"I'm familiar with Craig Bellamy, I played with him and his mentality is 'bring on whoever, it doesn't matter'," Earnshaw commented.

"Many people were wondering recently, 'should we really want Republic of Ireland as it's that derby feel?'. In my view many supporters didn't. But personally, that would be amazing.

"It's one of those, indeed, we're ready for Kosovo or the Bosnians and Albania are decent and Republic of Ireland, of course, they're a very good team so it will be challenging.

"However the sense is that we're prepared for anybody right now and it doesn't matter, and much of that is down to Craig Bellamy."

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

Albania enjoyed a impressive qualifying campaign, with their sole defeats suffered at the hands of Group K winners England, who claimed full points without conceding a single goal.

Burnley's Armando Broja and the Serie A side's Elseid Hysaj are among the Red and Blacks's more notable players, although it was former Inter Milan, Barcelona and Watford striker Rey Manaj who led their goal tally in the qualifiers with three goals.

Notably, the Albanians have never earned a spot for a World Cup, though they featured at Euro 2016 and the 2024 Euros, not managing to advance to the knockout stages on each times.

As Slovenia and Sweden endured difficult runs, with each not managing to win a qualification match, their group was a direct battle between Switzerland and Kosovo.

The Swiss ended the six-game qualifiers three points clear of the Kosovans, whose one loss 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-Herzegovina were defeated only one time in the qualifiers, and earned a points more than Wales achieved in their 8 games, but still ended 2 points adrift of Group H winners Austria.

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

The Welsh have not managed to beat the Bosnians in 4 matches but did have a unforgettable loss against the Dragons as they qualified for Euro 2016 under Chris Coleman despite the defeat.

Being his country's historic top goalscorer and record appearance player, former Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, currently with Fiorentina, is undoubtedly Bosnia's star player.

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

And finally, we have Ireland.

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

Troy Parrott scored the two goals against Euro 2016 winners Portugal before scoring a hat-trick – with the final goal arriving in the 96th minute – as the Irish surprised Hungary to take second place in their group in dramatic fashion.

Talisman Seamus Coleman played a crucial role in his team's resurgence while Brentford goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher has secured the number one position his to keep.

The Republic of Ireland are winless in their past four meetings with Wales, losing 3 of these, although James McClean shattered the hopes of the Red Wall as Martin O'Neill's men won a decisive World Cup qualifying match at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.