Ilie Datcu (born 20 July 1937), also known as İlyas Datça is a Romanian former football goalkeeper and coach.

He went to play for Dinamo București where he made his Divizia A debut on 20 August 1961 in a 4–3 away loss against Dinamo Pitești, making a total of 20 league appearances in his first season, helping the team win the title, working with three coaches Traian Ionescu, Constantin Teașcă and Nicolae Dumitru.

[5][8][9] He also made some performances in European competitions with Dinamo as in the 1963–64 European Cup campaign he kept two clean sheets in the 3–0 aggregate win over East Germany champion, Motor Jena, being eliminated in the next phase by Real Madrid and also appearing in a historical 2–1 win over Inter Milan in the 1965–66 edition who were the winners of the last two seasons of the competition.

[5][10] In 1969, Datcu went to play for in Turkey for Fenerbahçe where in his first season he was coached by Traian Ionescu and was teammate with Ion Nunweiller, all of them previously working together at Dinamo, winning the Turkish League in which he made 29 appearances in which he conceded only 6 goals, also winning the TSYD Cup in which he kept a clean sheet in the 1–0 victory from the final against Beşiktaş Istanbul.

[4][5][8] Datcu played six games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 12 May 1963 under coach Silviu Ploeșteanu in a friendly which ended with a 3–2 victory against East Germany.