Steven May

Steven May played 251 senior AFL games chiefly for Melbourne, as well as Gold Coast between 2011 and 2025, lining up most often as a defender. On 23-0, Steven May's career spans 2 decades, from the 2010s to the 2020s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Steven May at a peak of 98 out of 100, reached in the 2020s. That figure measures Steven May only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 2020s defender can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Honours on the record for Steven May include 1 premiership and 2 All-Australian selections. Steven May also polled 21 Brownlow votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Steven May with a best season of 421 disposals in 2022, 24 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 5 votes in 2016. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.