The mark consists of a shield with a round circle at the top with the letters AYSO in the center surrounded by the words AMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION FOUNDED 1964, a line at the top of the shield that makes a partial border which the circle sits on top of and beneath the partial border are four stars, two on each side of the circle, the word PLAY! with three curved lines beneath the exclamation mark the longest of which forms a partial border along the bottom of the shield with a cut out portion of a soccer ball.
Color is not claimed as a feature of the mark.