Sepak Takraw is a team sport played with a synthetic plastic or rattan ball between two teams of two to four players on a court resembling a badminton court. The sport, with similarities to volleyball which is played with hand, but differs from the similar sport like footvolley in its use of a rattan ball and only allowing players to use their feet, knees, shoulders, chest and head to touch the ball.

Sepak Takraw as we know it today was first introduced, developed and standardized in 1960, when the officials from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar met in Kuala Lumpur to agree on both a common set of rules for the sport and a name. Prior to this, it was unofficially known as "Sepak Raga Jaring" where the first match and rules of this pioneer version Sepak Takraw was exhibited in Penang in 1945. The sport was then introduced in the 1965 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur as a medal event. Sepak Takraw is considered Malaysia's national sport. Sepak Takraw is governed internationally by the International Sepaktakraw Federation, commonly known as ISTAF that was formed in 1988.