LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - Vodafone met market forecasts on Tuesday by reporting a 2.2% increase in organic earnings for the year to end-March after excluding the Spanish and Italian operations that it has agreed to sell.

The British company posted core earnings of 11.02 billion euros ($11.89 billion), in line with forecasts, and adjusted free cash flow of 2.60 billion euros, ahead of market expectations of 2.44 billion euros.

($1 = 0.9272 euros) (Reporting by Paul Sandle; Editing by Kate Holton)