| Orestis Menka | |
| Fullname: | Orestis Menka |
| Birth Date: | 27 July 1992 |
| Birth Place: | Lushnjë, Albania |
| Height: | 1.850NaN0 |
| Position: | Goalkeeper |
| Currentclub: | Vasalund |
| Clubnumber: | 1 |
| Youthyears1: | 2002–2007 |
| Youthyears2: | 2007–2009 |
| Youthclubs2: | PAOK |
| Youthyears3: | 2009–2013 |
| Youthclubs3: | Doxa Drama |
| Youthyears4: | 2011–2012 |
| Youthclubs4: | → Glyfada (loan) |
| Years1: | 2013–2014 |
| Clubs1: | Doxa Drama |
| Caps1: | 8 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Years2: | 2014–2015 |
| Clubs2: | Aiginiakos |
| Caps2: | 2 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
| Years3: | 2015–2016 |
| Clubs3: | Doxa Drama |
| Caps3: | 0 |
| Goals3: | 0 |
| Years4: | 2016–2017 |
| Caps4: | 13 |
| Goals4: | 0 |
| Years5: | 2017–2020 |
| Clubs5: | Doxa Drama |
| Caps5: | 59 |
| Goals5: | 0 |
| Years6: | 2020–2021 |
| Clubs6: | Panachaiki |
| Caps6: | 0 |
| Goals6: | 0 |
| Years7: | 2021 |
| Clubs7: | Levadiakos |
| Caps7: | 5 |
| Goals7: | 0 |
| Years8: | 2021 |
| Clubs8: | Akropolis |
| Caps8: | 14 |
| Goals8: | 0 |
| Years9: | 2022– |
| Clubs9: | Vasalund |
| Caps9: | 48 |
| Goals9: | 0 |
| Nationalyears1: | 2013 |
| Nationalteam1: | Albania U21 |
| Nationalcaps1: | 3 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
| Club-Update: | 29 November 2023 |
| Nationalteam-Update: | 11 June 2013 |
Orestis Menka (born 27 July 1992) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Swedish Ettan-Norra club Vasalund.
Menka moved to Levadeia, Greece, at the age of four and started his youth career at age 10, with the city's football-club Levadiakos, where he stayed five years before signing with PAOK together with a fellow Albanian compatriot Ergys Kaçe, where he stayed two years, then moved to Doxa Drama's youth team, was loaned for a year at Glyfada F.C. and then returned to Doxa Drama.[1]
On 6 January 2013, Menka gained entry with the first team of Doxa Drama as he called up for the match against Panachaiki, but he was an unused substitute.[2] He called up in total of 7 times, but all of them was an unused substitute.[3]
He made it his debut on 15 December 2013, by being included in the starting line-up in an away match against Anagennisi Giannitsa F.C. finished in the victory 1–2.[4] He played 2 consecutive games by keeping the clean sheet, on 12 January 2014 against Anagennisi Karditsas[5] and against Tyrnavos 05 on 19 January 2014,[6] with both games finishing in goalless draws. Menka played a half-time match on 29 March 2014 against Vataniakos, match finished in the victory 2–3 where he conceded 1 goal as the 2nd was conceded by his substitute Kostas Davkos.[7]
Since the summer of 2020, he has been playing for Panachaiki.
He played his first match for Albania national under-21 football team on 6 February 2013 against Macedonia U21, an friendly match finished in goalless draw 0-0. In the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship he played two matches against Hungary U21 on 7 June 2013 [8] and Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 on 11 June 2013.[9]
| International appearances and goals | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Venue | Opponent | Final score | Goal | Result | Competition | ||
| 2013 | ||||||||
| 1 | 6 February | 0–0 | 0 | Draw | Friendly | |||
| 2 | 7 June | 1–2 | 0 | Loss | UEFA Euro U-21 2015 qualification | |||
| 3 | 11 June | 1–4 | 0 | Loss | UEFA Euro U-21 2015 qualification | |||
| Season | Club | League country | League | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||