After a meeting of a group including Real Madrid and Barcelona, the professional football league (LFP) said agreement had been reached to discuss how to create a separate first division similar to the Premier League or Italy's Serie A.
Poorer clubs from both first and second divisions responded by calling on Spain's Socialist government to force all professional clubs to adopt a system of collective negotiation like that in rival European leagues, the LFP said in a separate statement.
In Spain, clubs negotiate deals with TV companies individually, unlike in the English Premier League, the German Bundesliga and France's Ligue 1, where collective deals are struck and revenue shared out.
Real and Barca, the world's richest clubs, rake in half the available cash, with deals worth about 150 million euros a season, leaving the rest, some of whom are in dire financial trouble, to fight over the scraps.
The richer clubs had said their planned separate first division would create "a much more attractive and better-run competition than the current one".
"A series of working meetings will start from June 21 to study the best way of putting (the plan) into practice," the LFP said, adding that the goal was to reach an accord before the start of next season.
