[1] With Eintracht Frankfurt he won the German championship in 1959 and reached with the club the 1960 European Cup Final against Real Madrid.
Bundestrainer Sepp Herberger called up Eintracht's left midfielder three times for the A national team: Against Belgium in Frankfurt on 8 March 1961, against Northern Ireland in Berlin on 10 May 1961 and against Denmark in Düsseldorf on 20 September 1961 but never received a cap.
On his position Horst Szymaniak was seeded since the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden.
In 1961 and 1962 he won with Frankfurt the Oberliga Süd runner-up title and appeared in 16 German final round matches.
After appearing in the 1965–66 season only four times, Stinka moved to lower class club Darmstadt 98, staying there until 1968.