Rob Schoofs (born 23 March 1994) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a

central midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for KV Mechelen in the

Belgian Pro League The Belgian Pro League,(officially the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler), is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 season and reduced to 16 team ...

. Schoofs was

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's then record signing in the summer of 2017, but only stayed there for one season. In 2018, Schoofs moved to newly-relegated Mechelen, helping them in his first season at the club to promotion and Cup success, becoming only the second club from outside the top flight in history to win the

Belgian Cup The Belgian Cup (french: link=no, Coupe de Belgique; nl, Beker van België []; german: link=no, Belgischer Fußballpokal) is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in Belgium, run by the Belgia ...

. They were the first club to do this double.

Honours

Mechelen *

: 2018–19 Belgian Cup, 2018–19 *

Belgian First Division B The Challenger Pro League (previously known as ''1B Pro League'') is the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system, one level below the Belgian First Division A. It was created by the Royal Belgian Football Association in 2016 ...

: 2018–19

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* * 1994 births Living people Belgian men's footballers Footballers from Sint-Truiden Men's association football midfielders Belgium men's under-21 international footballers Belgium men's youth international footballers Belgian Pro League players Challenger Pro League players Sint-Truidense V.V. players K.A.A. Gent players K.V. Mechelen players 21st-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-footy-midfielder-stub