Many of them protested their innocence when they spoke to reporters at Heathrow Airport, with some displaying their injuries and accusing the Portuguese police of indiscriminate violence.

The men appeared before a Portuguese judge on Wednesday after the rioting in the resort of Albufeira and were ordered to be deported. Seven received suspended jail sentences while three were cleared of criminal wrongdoing.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said eight men would be appearing at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court, west London, later today where authorities would be applying for banning orders to stop them travelling to England matches.

He said that the group, aged from their late teens up to 32, “have been served with notices under section 21b of the Football Spectators Act as amended by the Football Disorder Act”.

Police would not name the eight men due to appear before magistrates.

During the court appearance in Portugal, Peter Barwick, 37, from Middlesbrough, was given a nine-month jail sentence, suspended for three years.

Andrew Williams, 22, from Burgess Hill, Sussex, John Parkes, 19, from Dudley, Daniel Marsh, 20, from Barnsley, Ricky Tsigarides 22, from Cheshunt, John Jackson, 22 from Newcastle, and David Jackson, 28, from Peterborough, were all given seven-month jail sentences, suspended for three years.

They were told they would be deported and could not return for a year.

Paul Donahue, 32, and Jason Boyle, 22, both from Manchester, were cleared of criminal wrongdoing but told they could not return to Portugal for five years.

Jack Hobbs, 19, from Oxford, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing but told he could not return to Portugal for a year.

The men arrived at Heathrow as thousands of jubilant fans in Portugal celebrated England’s 3-0 victory over Switzerland.

Garry Mann, 47, a firefighter from Faversham, Kent, was not travelling with them. He was jailed for two years on Wednesday night after being described in the Portuguese court as a ringleader.

Scores of police were seen filing into the airside area at Heathrow before they touched down.

They were escorted on to the flight in handcuffs although, once seated, their handcuffs were removed.

The men were finally escorted through the arrival gate at Heathrow just before 10.20pm, two hours after their flight touched down on British soil.

Mr Donahue was sporting a black eye and had cuts on his right arm. Asked whether he had been treated fairly in Portugal, he said: “I have not been treated fairly. I just want to go home.”

Jason Boyle, who arrived off the plane with just one shoe, walked towards the exit barefoot.

He continued to protest his innocence. “I wasn’t there,” he said. “And that’s why I’ve been released without charge.”

Jack Hobbs and Daniel Marsh were next through at 12.35am, three hours and 15 minutes after the plane touched down.

Both walked through the arrival hall without making any comment.

Just behind was John Jackson. When asked whether he was treated fairly, he responded: “No, I wasn’t. Do you want to see my back?

“It’s a disgrace.”

Asked what had happened to him in Portugal, he said: “I was beaten up and spat on by the police.”

He also claimed that they were “picking on innocent people”.

With him came David Jackson, holding his shirt over his head. He dashed into a side corridor where he was met by Ricky Tsigarides.

John Parkes was next through, making no comment but when Peter Barwick, 37, was asked if he had been hurt in Portugal, he replied “Do you want to see?” and lifted up his shirt to show marks on his back.

Last out was Andrew Williams, who said: “I just want to go home and talk to my family and then speak to a solicitor and get legal advice.”

Jason Boyle told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “We went out to celebrate Paul’s birthday, had a meal, watched a game of football in a bar and we stayed in there all night. We left there about 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock.

“As we were walking back, there was a load of police cordons along the road. There was hardly any fans around, hardly any other people other than the police. We went past them without any problems.

“As we turned down an alleyway to get back to our apartments, some people came running behind us, knocked us to the floor and then started hitting us with batons and kicking us to the floor.”

Mr Donahue told the programme: “They didn’t say anything to us about what we had been charged with, or what we were supposed to have done. And we didn’t find that out until yesterday when we went to court.

“We were just getting classed as English thugs and hooligans and some of the police said to us that ‘maybe you haven’t done anything, but you pay for your English friends’. Terrible.”

Mr Boyle went on: “There were at least two police in full riot gear who were hitting us with batons, and at least five or six involved in backing them up.

“All I was doing was covering my head up with my hands to try to keep them away from my head. They were hitting my back as I was covering my head.

“X-rays in one hospital found that I had broken ribs, and I had to have kidney checks and also a brain scan as well. The doctor said I should have some painkillers… but the police wouldn’t allow us to pick up the painkillers so I haven’t had any painkillers for three days either.”

David Mellor, a former Tory minister and a one-time chairman of the Government’s Football Taskforce, told the programme: “Part of the problem is that we as a society tend to encourage foreign police forces to respond with brutality to people on the basis that these are fans who are bringing shame on the country.

“And there is a serious risk, and it has happened before, and it sounds as though with these two chaps that it has happened again, that people who are merely respectable people who just happen to be there, get brutalised."