Platinum Regions represent the best of the best that AYSO has to offer. These Regions model AYSO's philosophies and commitment to providing the best family friendly youth soccer experiences for all players and parent volunteers throughout their immediate communities and beyond. They nurture the generous spirit of their participants and devote extra effort to providing assistance to many worthy charitable causes.

Gold Award Regions are recognized for their consistent efforts to expand their program to include more opportunities for more children to play soccer including helping players with physical and mental disabilities experience the joys of playing soccer in their local communities.

Regions are recognized with a Silver Award when they demonstrate an extra commitment to improving the overall experience for all their coaches, referees, parent volunteers and especially the players, by providing training and development opportunities to all their participants and by implementing Kids Zone, AYSO's program for ensuring a safe, family friendly game environment.

Regions are awarded a Bronze Award for consistently demonstrating a commitment to providing a quality youth soccer program to all children in their community, applying best practices and promoting AYSO's philosophies Everyone Plays^®, Balanced Teams, Open Registration, Positive Coaching, Good Sportsmanship and Player Development.