Real Madrid claimed yesterday world-beating revenue for the sports world in 2010-11 at €480.2 million.

“It is the biggest sum of any sporting institution in the world,” the club run by president Floren-tino Perez said in a statement.

Real had the 8.6 per cent jump in sales accompanied by a 31.7 per cent surge in net profit to €31.6 million in the year to June 30.

The club said they also managed to trim their heavy debt load.

Net debt fell 30.6 per cent in the year but was still high at €169.7 million as of June 30.

Real Madrid rake in money from the stadium, television rights, marketing, membership fees and sales of players.

They sharply reduced spending on players this summer when compared to the summer of 2009 when they splashed out more than €200 million on Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Madrid club notably recruited Coentrao from Benfica for €30 million and made a 10-million-euro bet on the future of 18-year-old Varane from Lens.

But the huge sums that Real Madrid and rivals Barcelona claw in from the sale of television rights have sparked a backlash from other less fortunate clubs in the Spanish league.

Real and Barcelona receive about €140 million a year each from television rights, while small clubs such as Levante, Malaga or Real Sociedad get just €12 million each.

Sevilla president Jose Maria del Nido invited a dozen clubs to a meeting September 8 to seek a new distribution of the TV money that would sharply reduce Barca and Real’s share.

They called for the television rights sales to be centralised this season by the Professional Football League (LFP) and shared out more fairly.

Sevilla vice president Jose Maria Cruz said in a statement that Real Madrid had reacted coolly to the plans in an LFP meeting on Thursday and that most other clubs had not backed up Sevilla’s position.