Jurgen Klopp's side were represented only by Poland international Robert Lewandowski on the 23-man shortlist and Kehl believes more of his team-mates should be in the running for the prestigious individual award.
First of all, I haven't seen the entire list yet, so for me it's a new situation. But I would have expected a few more Dortmund players to make it, Kehl told reporters.
And I wouldn't exactly see it as justified that there's only one player from Borussia Dortmund.
It may be that Dortmund are judged as a team, but of course we have a lot of great individual players, too.
But we are successful as a team at the end of the day and I think that's not subject to any debate.
The winners of the award will be revealed at the Fifa Ballon d’Or gala as part of a televised show at the Zurich Kongresshaus on January 13, 2014.
