Football News: Chris Coleman Believes Wales Will Attract Big Home Crowds If They Continue To Progress In European Qualifiers

Wales top the Group B standings after following up last month's win in Andorra with an encouraging goalless draw against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Friday night.

That match was played out in front of over 30,000 fans at the Cardiff City Stadium, and while Monday's visit of Cyprus is likely to attract a smaller crowd, the Football Association of Wales is hoping a late surge will see around 20,000 tickets sold.

Wales have only played once at the 74,500 capacity stadium in the last five years, a 2012 World Cup qualifier against England in March 2011, and when they played Russia there in September 2009 they drew a crowd of only 11,589.

"There's only one way we're going to get the supporters back," manager Coleman said at his press conference ahead of the Cyprus game.

"People talk about being at the Millennium Stadium again and playing in front of 75,000 people.

"You can have as many schemes as you like, get the kids in for free which is great, and do all the deals.

"But we'll get back to the Millennium Stadium when we're winning games continuously at the right end of the campaign and at the right end of a group.

"That's when it all starts happening again and we're on the road to that. We've lost one in seven so we're on a decent run and we've got to keep it going.

"What we've done in the last 12 to 18 months we've got to do in the next 12 to 18 months and if we do that we'll be at the right end of the campaign.

"That's when maybe 30,000 (stadium) is not big enough and that's when you go back to the Millennium.

"But that's in the future. It's all about now and we're still building and we must be doing something right because there's so much excitement and expectation."