Ion Oblemenco (13 May 1945 – 1 September 1996) was a Romanian football player and manager who spent the majority of his playing career with Universitatea Craiova.

Ion Oblemenco, nicknamed "Tunarul" (The Cannon) because of his goalscoring ability, was born in Corabia, Olt County and began his youth career in 1958 at the age of 13 with local club Progresul.

[6] In the 1962–63 season he played for Tractorul Corabia and was the team's top goalscorer, helping them gain promotion to Divizia C.[4][6][10][11] At age 19, he was brought to Rapid București by coach Valentin Stănescu, who gave him his debut in a Divizia A match on 5 July 1964 and ended with a in a 3–1 defeat, in which he scored his team's goal, against Știința Cluj.

[4][6][9][10][11][12][13] Oblemenco made his second debut for "U" Craiova, this time in Divizia A, under coach Robert Cosmoc in a 4–1 loss to Dinamo București.

[1][4][6][8][10][11][17] In the latter season he also came close to winning the league title, but "U" finished in second place, equal on points with Dinamo București but losing out controversially on goal difference, for which the poet Adrian Păunescu nicknamed Craiova "Campioana unei mari iubiri" (The Champion of a great love).

[1][18][19] In the first round of the 1973–74 UEFA Cup season, Craiova eliminated Fiorentina, Oblemenco scoring the only goal of the tie in the last minute of the second leg.

[1][4][6][10] Oblemeco made his last appearances in the 1977–78 Divizia B season, playing 33 matches for FCM Galați and finishing as the league's top scorer with 23 goals.

During his career, he played 9 games and scored four goals in European competitions (including two appearances in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup).

[2][4][6][8][9][10][11][21][25][26][27] In the next season, Oblemenco's team became the first Romanian club to reach the quarter-finals of the European Cup after eliminating Olympiacos and Kjøbenhavns Boldklub.

[6][11] In the autumn of 1982, Oblemenco was appointed as head coach of Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea, a position he held until the 27th round of the 1984–85 season.

[4][6][7][10][25][26][11] In July 1985, he joined Olt Scornicești, but stayed only until September of that year, going afterwards to work at Sportul Muncitoresc Slatina in the middle of the 1985–86 Divizia B season.

In the middle of the same year he went to coach in Morocco at Hassania Agadir where, on 1 September 1996, he died after suffering a heart attack during a game with Union Sidi Kacem.

In October 1972 he was diagnosed with peptic ulcer disease, for which he underwent surgery twice, and was absent from the field until March 1973 when he scored a hat-trick in a 6–4 away victory against Rapid in his first game after the operation.