Consumption of milk from vending machines is popular in Croatia, but it is necessary to evaluate the potential risks to consumers in terms of microbiological safety. The aim of this study was to examine the presence and counts of coagulase-positive staphylococci in raw milk from vending machines (n = 319), and to test the susceptibility of isolates to antimicrobials over a one-year period. The number of coagulase-positive staphylococci was determined according to HRN EN ISO 6888, and the assessment of resistance to kanamycin, erythromycin, nitrofurantoin, ampicillin, levofloxacin, teicoplanin, ciprofloxacin, penicillin, cefotaxime, tetracycline, trimethoprim / sulfamethoxidolol, linezolid, chloramphenicol and ceftazidim by disk diffusion method. The average number of coagulase-positive staphylococci by months of sampling ranged from 2.04 to 3.09 log cfu / ml. A total of 88 samples contained these bacteria (27.58 %). Sensitivity to antimicrobials was tested in 60 isolates and the percentage of resistant isolates varied from 33.3 to 100 % depending on the sampling month. A total of 41 isolates were resistant to at least one antimicrobial agent (68.33 %). The majority of coagulase-positive staphylococci were resistant to penicillin, ampicillin and ciprofloxacin, followed by linezolid, ceftazidime, kanamycin and levofloxacin