Costica ?tefanescu (26 March 1951 – 20 August 2013) was a Romanian football player and coach who last managed Qatari side Al Shamal.
He spent the majority of his career at CS Universitatea Craiova, where he made a club record 378 appearances.
He is also the second all-time appearance leader in Divizia A, having played in a total of 490 matches.
In August 2013, after suffering from cancer for a long time, he committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of the military hospital in Bucharest.