Jonny May

May was born in Chiseldon, Wiltshire. He then studied at St Francis before he attended The Ridgeway School and Sixth Form College. He then studied at Hartpury College, where he was a member of Hartpury College R.F.C., coached by Allan Lewis in a team that included Alex Cuthbert on the opposite wing.[3][4]

As a child, Jonny spent time playing and training at Royal Wootton Bassett Rugby Football Club in their Mini & Junior teams. After joining Gloucester's rugby academy,[4] he made his first start for Gloucester Rugby in a pre-season friendly against Bath Rugby on 15 August 2009, and the next weekend he scored a try against Connacht after he had come off the bench. His first taste of first team action came in the Heineken Cup when he replaced Charlie Sharples against Newport Gwent Dragons and just over a month later he made his first start against London Wasps in the Anglo-Welsh Cup, playing on the wing.

On 20 February 2010, May was a late replacement for Gloucester's match against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road Stadium after Fuimaono-Sapolu pulled out with a 'dead leg'. Although Gloucester lost, May played well and scored a try on his Premiership debut. May made 2 more starts for Gloucester during the remainder of the season against London Wasps and Northampton Saints.

In January 2012 May was called up to the England Saxons, which he celebrated by scoring two tries from full-back for at Kingsholm against Toulouse in the Heineken Cup. May made his debut off the bench against Scotland, and made his first start against Ireland the following week. In March 2012 May was named as the inaugural winner of the LV= Breakthrough Player Award. May was named Gloucester's Young Player-of-the-Year for 2011/2012, and his stunning solo effort against Harlequins was named Try-of-the-Season at the Aviva Premiership Awards. In December 2012, May signed a two-year contract extension with Gloucester until the end of the 2014–15 season.[5] On 24 October 2014, May signed a new long-term contract with Gloucester Rugby.[6]

In 2017 it was announced he would be joining Leicester Tigers in a swap deal with Ed Slater, after activating a little known clause in his Gloucester contract.[7] May started his Leicester career strongly scoring 9 tries in his first 8 appearances and earning the club's player of the month award.[8]

After three seasons at Welford Road, in April 2020 it was announced that May would return to Kingsholm for a second stint.[9] He has since agreed a long-term contract.[10]

May was called up to the senior England tour of South Africa in June 2012, scoring two tries in England's 57–31 win over Sharks. May won his first international cap during England's 2013 summer Tour against Argentina in the second Test which England won 51–26.[11] On 9 January 2014, May was called up for the 2014 Six Nations Championships where he was in the starting fifteen against France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Italy.[4] He started the first test against the All Blacks in England's 20–15 defeat, but was dropped for the next two tests.

In the QBE Autumn Internationals, May played in all 4 test matches. These were against New Zealand, South Africa, Samoa and Australia. May scored once against New Zealand and twice against Samoa.

In 2020, May became England's second highest try scorer alongside Will Greenwood and Ben Cohen with 31 test tries.

International tries

As of 21 November 2020. [12]

Try	Opposing team	Venue	Competition	Date	Result	Score
1	New Zealand	Twickenham Stadium, London	2014 Autumn Internationals	8 November 2014	Loss	21 – 24
2	Samoa			22 November 2014	Win	28 – 9
3
4	France		2015 Rugby World Cup Warm-Up	15 August 2015	Win	19 – 14
5	Ireland			5 September 2015	Win	21 – 13
6	Wales		2015 Rugby World Cup	26 September 2015	Loss	25 – 28
7	South Africa		2016 Autumn Internationals	12 November 2016	Win	37 – 21
8	Argentina			26 November 2016	Win	27 – 14
9	Argentina	Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan	2017 Tour of Argentina	10 June 2017	Win	38 – 34
10	Australia	Twickenham Stadium, London	2017 Autumn Internationals	18 November 2017	Win	30 – 6
11	Wales		2018 Six Nations	10 February 2018	Win	12 – 6
12
13	France	Stade de France, Paris		10 March 2018	Loss	16 – 22
14	Ireland	Twickenham Stadium, London		17 March 2018	Loss	15 – 24
15	South Africa	Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg	2018 Tour of South Africa	9 June 2018	Loss	39 – 42
16		Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein		16 June 2018	Loss	12 – 23
17		Newlands Stadium, Cape Town		23 June 2018	Win	25 – 10
18	Australia	Twickenham Stadium, London	2018 Autumn Internationals	24 November 2018	Win	37 – 18
19	Ireland	Aviva Stadium, Dublin	2019 Six Nations	2 February 2019	Win	32 – 20
20	France	Twickenham Stadium, London		10 February 2019	Win	44 – 8
21
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23	Italy			9 March 2019	Win	57 – 14
24	Scotland			16 March 2019	Draw	38 – 38
25	Argentina	Tokyo Stadium, Tokyo	2019 Rugby World Cup	5 October 2019	Win	39 – 10
26	Australia	Ōita Stadium, Ōita		19 October 2019	Win	40 – 16
27
28	France	Stade de France, Paris	2020 Six Nations	2 February 2020	Loss	17 – 24
29
30	Ireland	Twickenham Stadium, London	Autumn Nations Cup	21 November 2020	Win	18 – 7
31

Test match record

Against	Pld	W	D	L	T	C	P	DG	Pts	%Won
Argentina	5	5	0	0	3	0	0	0	15	100
Australia	6	5	0	1	4	0	0	0	20	83.33
Fiji	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100
France	5	3	0	2	7	0	0	0	35	60
Ireland	5	4	0	1	3	0	0	0	15	80
Italy	6	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	100
New Zealand	4	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	5	25
Samoa	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	10	100
Scotland	4	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	10	50
South Africa	7	3	0	4	4	0	0	0	20	42.86
Tonga	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100
Wales	6	4	0	2	3	0	0	0	15	66.67

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